North Side Wall Street, First Presbyterian Church - about 1816

 

 

Illustration published in the Valentine's Manual of Old New York, 1923 (copyright 1922) by Henry Collins Brown (1862-1961). Text on print: «North side of Wall Street from Broadway to Nassau, about 1816, showing Howard, Keeler, Drapers, corner of Broadway; the First Presbyterian Church in the center; and the Tavern of John Simmons on the corner of Nassau St., where James Duane, first mayor of New York, was inaugurated (1784).»

The First Presbyterian Church was founded in 1716, as a Presbyterian Meeting, and rebuilt in 1811. The building on the left, on the northeast corner of Broadway and Wall Street at 88 Broadway (2 Wall Street), was built after 1809, when the property was bought by Najah Taylor and others, then a three-story mansion. The City Hotel on Broadway (extreme left) is erroneously depicted as five stories high. At the time, it was four stories above ground, with an attic. It was enlarged to five stories in 1833. Compare with another illustration dated 1834.

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