Everett House, Seventeenth Street, Union Square

The Everett House at Fourth Avenue and Seventeenth Street, north side of Union Park. Photo, originally a stereograph view, published by George Stacy about 1860. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

This old 5-story hotel opened in 1853 and it was named after the Massachusetts Senator and Secretary of State, Edward Everett (1794-1865). Everett House stood partly on lots purchased of William B. Moffat (1818-1862), whose house adjoins it in the photo above. The building was demolished in 1908 and the site is now occupied by the Everett Building.