Wall Street and City Hall in Late 18th Century

 

View up Wall Street with City Hall [Federal Hall] and Trinity Church, New York City. Watercolor, black ink, and graphite on paper by Archibald Robertson (1765-1835), about 1798. Robertson was a Scottish born painter who operated the Columbian Academy of Painting in New York. Source: New-York Historical Society.

The old City Hall was the place where George Washington was inaugurated on April 30, 1789. The building was demolished in 1812, after the City Hall moved to the present site. A neoclassic building was erected on the site, between 1833 and 1842, for the Custom House.

The Trinity Church represented is the second temple, completed in 1790 to replace the first temple that had been destroyed by fire in 1776. The present neo-Gothic building was consecrated in 1846.

 

18th Century

 

◄ Old City of New York

 

 

 

 

Wall Street 1789

 

 

19th century Wall Street

Wall Street before the Great Fire of 1835 that destroyed many buildings in the area.

 

Federal Hall 1797

 

 

19th century City Hall Park

 

Castle Garden Battery

 

East River NYC

 

Wall Street images

 

 

 

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Wall Street and City Hall in Late 18th Century

 

 

Old City New York