. A landmark history of New York; also the origin of street names and a bibliography . ound the foot of a will explain the existence of other crookedstreets. The hills are gone, but to this day we keepwalking around them. Then, too, it must be remem-bered that the original town grew up in a haphazardsort of a way. People placed their houses wherethey pleased at first, and so when it came to the lay-ing out of roads the latter were more likely to becrooked than straight. You must try to imagine,continued the professor, as we turned the cornerinto Pearl Street, that instead of those bu
. A landmark history of New York; also the origin of street names and a bibliography . ound the foot of a will explain the existence of other crookedstreets. The hills are gone, but to this day we keepwalking around them. Then, too, it must be remem-bered that the original town grew up in a haphazardsort of a way. People placed their houses wherethey pleased at first, and so when it came to the lay-ing out of roads the latter were more likely to becrooked than straight. You must try to imagine,continued the professor, as we turned the cornerinto Pearl Street, that instead of those buildingsopposite, you have the line of the shore before you,and here, on this side, a straggling row of quaintDutch houses with their gable ends toward the road,topped with crowstep roofs. A LANDMARK HISTORY OF NEW YORK 15 Why were the roofs made that way? To enable the chimney sweeps to climb iipeasily and reach the chimneys from the outside. A short walk brought us to Whitehall Street. In the old days, said the professor, pointingtoward the river, vou could have seen there a white. Stuyvesants town house, erected in ItioS. Afterward called theWhite Hall. From an old print in Valentines Manual for 1862. residence of no mean appearance, surrounded by a garden and stately trees. This was Stuyvesants official town house, knoAvn as the White Hall which has left its name to the street it used to adorn. 3 16 A LANDMARK HISTORY OP XEW YORK Heres another tablet, said Tom, looking upat No. 73 Pearl Street. George being now recognized as the officialreader, at once began to decipher the inscription, butnot without difficulty, as it is high up. THE SITE OF THEFIRST DUTCH HOUSE OF ENTERTAINMENT OX THE ISLAND OF MANHATTAN. LATER THE SITE OF THE OLD STADT HUYS OR CITY HALL. THIS TABLET IS PLACED HERE BY THE HOLLAND SOCIETY OF NEW YORK. SEPTEMBER 1890. This, said the professor, is one of the mostinteresting sites of Xew Amsterdam. As the fortwas the center of military life this was the center
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