Old Buildings on 42nd Street - between 1877 and 1894
Buildings on north side of Forty-second Street, looking west from Madison Avenue, about 1877. Photograph from Scrapbooks of New York City views, New York Public Library.
Hotel Wellington is on the northwest corner of Madison Avenue, at right. The building was originally constructed for residential purposes. The property belonged to Joseph Stickney. By December, 1892, negotiations to buy the site was completed, and the Hotel Manhattan began to be erected on the site in 1895.
The old Hotel Bristol (opened about 1877) is seen in the distance, on the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue. The spire of West Presbyterian Church can also be seen.
Hotel Wellington
42nd Street in 3 parts, from the shore of Hudson River to the shore of East River - 1879.
Hotel Wellington on the northwest corner of 42nd St.
Old Buildings on 42nd Street - between 1877 and 1894
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