Subjects
| [BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN] | |
| PAGE | |
| Number Seven State Street | [19] |
| Fraunces’s Tavern | [23] |
| Sub-Treasury and Assay Office | [27] |
| Bank of New York | [29] |
| St. Paul’s Chapel | [33] |
| City Hall | [39] |
| Astor Library | [43] |
| Langdon House | [45] |
| St. Mark’s Church | [49] |
| Rutherfurd House | [53] |
| Keteltas House | [57] |
| Residence of Eugene Delano | [59] |
| First Presbyterian Church | [61] |
| Former Residence of the Late James Lenox | [63] |
| Former Residence of the Late Robert B. Minturn | [65] |
| Grace Church | [67] |
| Society Library | [69] |
| Cruger House | [73] |
| Abingdon Square | [77] |
| Gramercy Square | [81] |
| Residence of John Bigelow | [83] |
| Former Residence of the Late Luther C. Clark | [85] |
| Former Residence Of the Late James W. Gerard | [87] |
| “The Players”—Former Home of Edwin Booth | [91] |
| Former Residence of the Late Samuel J. Tilden | [93] |
| Former Residence of the Late Rev. Dr. H. W. Bellows | [97] |
| Former Residence of the Late Dr. Valentine Mott | [99] |
| Rectory of Calvary Parish | [101] |
| Former Residence of the Late Stanford White | [103] |
| Former Residence of the Late Cyrus W. Field and the Late David Dudley Field | [105] |
| Former Residence of the Late Peter Cooper and the Late Abram S. Hewitt | [107] |
| General Theological Seminary | [111] |
| Former Residence of the Late William C. Schermerhorn | [115] |
| Church of the Transfiguration | [117] |
| Residence of J. Pierpont Morgan | [121] |
| Former Residence of the Late Theodore A. Havemeyer | [123] |
| Former Residence of the Late Senator Edwin D. Morgan | [125] |
| The Old Arsenal | [127] |
| Claremont | [129] |
| Hamilton Grange | [139] |
| Jumel House | [143] |
| Gracie House | [151] |
| [BOROUGH OF THE BRONX] | |
| Gouverneur Morris House | [157] |
| Van Cortlandt House | [167] |
| [BOROUGH OF QUEENS] | |
| Bowne House | [171] |
| [BOROUGH OF RICHMOND] | |
| Billop House | [175] |
Old Buildings
of
New York City
Introductory
Recently a writer in a periodical stated that “No one was ever born in New York.” It can be safely said that this is an exaggeration. Nevertheless it showed the confidence of the writer that the statement was not likely to startle his readers very greatly.
Probably not one in a hundred of the men in the street know or care anything about the town of fifty or sixty years ago. Still the number of those who were familiar with it then is large, however small in comparison with the whole number. In fact, the number of those whose predecessors were living here when there were not more than a thousand people in the whole place is much greater than is generally supposed.