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English: Identifier: oldbuildingsnewy00newy
Title: Old buildings of New York City, with some notes regarding their origin and occupants Year: 1907 (1900s) Authors: Subjects: Historic buildings -- New York (State) New York Publisher: New York : Brentano's Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: rbeing of the width of the house. The rooms on eitherside were rather curiously divided, losing somewhat inwhat might have made a more imposing effect, not,however, enough to prevent their being an excellent * Mrs. Cruger spent lier summers at that quaint castellatedstructure, Henderson House or Home, seven miles from RiclifieldSprings^ the grounds being part of twenty thousand acres receivedby letters patent from the English crown. 73 Old HiiildiN-s of Xcrc York City j)huv Ior Ihc (lis|)()siti()n of the collection of the Metro-])olitan ^Museum. \\ hicli leased the house in 1873 for fiveyears. V\\v house is described in tlie annual report forthat year as a lar^e and ele<»ant building surroundedby spacious i»rounds, upon which grounds new galleriesmay be built, should they be required. . . . * Therooms certainly had more luiobstructed light than couldbe f(Mind in most ]:)rivate houses. It is now occupiedby the Salvation xVrmy. * Bulletin of Mctroi^olitaii Museum/ January, 1907. 74 Text Appearing After Image: Abingdon Square—Greenwich ^^^^^HE peculiarity of the Greenwich section of the■ ^ J town is that it has retained an individuahty^^^ that no other section has retained. It is verymuch of an American quarter. The streets are hnedwith well-kept, comfortable brick houses, dating backsixty years or more, many of them with the elaboratelyornamental iron railings and newel posts that are dis-appearing so rapidly. There is a marked paucity ofthe conventional tenement house, and although factoriesand warehouses are crowding it on all sides, its peoplecling with a stolid determination to their ancient homes. This square is taken as representative of this quarterof the city, although it is rather in the streets adjoiningthat the houses are most representative of old dwellingsof sixty or seventy years ago. Before the arrival ofHenry Hudson, there was an Indian village here nearthe site of Gansevoort ^Market, but Governor VanTwiller turned the locality into a tobacco farm. By1727 it became cove Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. |
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