[591] Vol. III. p. 455.
[592] Chief among the architectural landmarks of old New York was the City Hall, on Wall Street, built in 1700, and taken down in 1812. (Cf. views in Valentine’s Manual, 1847 and 1866; Mag. of Amer. Hist., ix. 322; and Watson’s Annals of New York, p. 176.) Valentine’s Manual and his Hist. of N. York contain various views of buildings and localities belonging to the early part of the eighteenth century. Particularly in the Manual, see the views of early New York in the volume for 1858, with a view of Fort George and the city from the southwest (1740). (Cf. Appleton’s Journal, viii. p. 353.) The Manual for 1862 contains a view of the battery (p. 503); others of the foot of Wall Street (p. 506), of the great dock (p. 512), and of the East River shore (p. 531),—all of 1746; and of the North River shore in 1740 (p. 549). The volume for 1865 contains a history of Broadway, with historical views; that for 1866 a history of Wall Street, to be compared with the treatment of the same subject by Mrs. Lamb in the Mag. of Amer. Hist.
An engraving from Wm. Burgiss’s view of the Dutch church in New York, built 1727-37, is given in Valentine’s Hist. of N. Y. City, p. 279.
A paper on the old tombs of Trinity is in Harper’s Mag., Nov., 1876.
The Manual also preserves samples of the domestic architecture of the period. Old houses, especially Dutch ones, are shown in the volumes for 1847, 1850, 1853, 1855. In that for 1858 we have in contrast the Dutch Cortelyou house (1699) and the Rutgers mansion. Of famous colonial houses in New York city and province, cuts may be noted of the following among others:—
Van Cortland House, in Mrs. Lamb’s Homes of America (1879), p. 696; Harper’s Mag., lii. 645; Appleton’s Journal, ix. 801; Mag. of Amer. Hist., xv. (Mar., 1883). Philipse Manor House at Yonkers, in Lamb; Appleton’s, xi. 385; Harper’s Mag., lii. 642. Roger Morris House, in Lamb. See further on this house when Washington’s headquarters, in Vol. VI. Beekman House, in Lamb; Valentine’s Manual, 1854, p. 554; Appleton’s, viii. 310. Livingston House, in Lamb; Mag. of Amer. Hist., 1885, p. 239. Verplanck House, in Lamb; Potter’s Amer. Monthly, iv. 242. Van Rensselaer House at Albany, in Lamb. Schuyler Mansion in Albany, in Lamb.
Many of these houses are also conveniently depicted in Harper’s Cyclopædia of U.S. Hist. (ed. by Lossing).
Cf. “Old New York and its Houses,” by R. G. White, in The Century, Oct., 1883. Geo. W. Schuyler’s Colonial New York epitomizes the histories of several of the old families,—Van Cortlandt, Van Rensselaer, Livingston, Verplanck, etc. (vol. i. 187, 206, 243, 292).
[593] Cf. Valentine’s Hist. of New York City, p. 263; his N. Y. City Manual, 1841-42, 1844-45, 1850, and 1851; Dunlap’s New York, i. 290; Mrs. Lamb’s New York, i. 524; Lossing’s New York, i. 14; Weise’s Discoveries of America, p. 358. It was also republished in fac-simile by W. W. Cox, of Washington; and in lithograph by G. Hayward. Cf. Map Catal. Brit. Mus. (1885), sub “New York City.”
[594] Cf. the “Ville de Manathe ou Nouvelle York,” in Bellin’s Petit Atlas Maritime, vol. i. (1764). The same atlas has a plan of Philadelphia of that date.