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WITH SOME NOTES REGARDING THEIR ORIGIN AND OCCUPANTS
FORMER RESIDENCE OF THE LATE JAMES LENOX 63
FORMER RESIDENCE OF THE LATE ROBERT B. MINTURN 65
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
FORMER RESIDENCE OF THE LATE WILLIAM C. SCHERMERHORN 115
FORMER RESIDENCE OF THE LATE THEODORE A. HAVEMEYER 123
FORMER RESIDENCE OF THE LATE SENATOR EDWIN D. MORGAN 125
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.
It was for people belonging to the two latter classes that these pictures were taken. They may even interest some who have known the town for only a generation.
When a man has traversed the streets of a city for fifty years, certain buildings become familiar landmarks. He first saw them perhaps on trudging to school with his books, and has seen them nearly every day since. He experiences a slight shock whenever such buildings are destroyed. There appears something wrong in the general aspect of the town. Of late years these shocks have followed one another so continuously that he may well wonder whether he is living in the same place.