. When old New York was young . had been thehomeof the Bayard family for fifty years. A I289] OLD-FASHIONED PLEASURE-GARDENS little lane (now Broome Street) led to it fromthe Bowery Road, where there was a stoutwooden gate to close its entrance. Duringthe Revolution fortifications had been thrownacross the farm, and the principal one was atBayards Mount, and was called Bunker second Vauxhall thrived well enough,but Delacroix, seeing the city spread north-ward year by year, and desiring that his gardenshould be a truly suburban resort, gave up theBayard homestead and carried the name V
. When old New York was young . had been thehomeof the Bayard family for fifty years. A I289] OLD-FASHIONED PLEASURE-GARDENS little lane (now Broome Street) led to it fromthe Bowery Road, where there was a stoutwooden gate to close its entrance. Duringthe Revolution fortifications had been thrownacross the farm, and the principal one was atBayards Mount, and was called Bunker second Vauxhall thrived well enough,but Delacroix, seeing the city spread north-ward year by year, and desiring that his gardenshould be a truly suburban resort, gave up theBayard homestead and carried the name Vaux-hall to a new section far away up the BoweryRoad, just south of where Astor Place now is,between Fourth Avenue and Broadway. Onthis spot for some years a Swiss named JacobSperry had raised vegetables for the citymarkets, and cultivated flowers for his owndelight until 1803, when he sold his patch ofground to John Jacob Astor. It was Astorwho leased it to Delacroix, by whom it wasmade into the third Vauxhall. Delacroix [290]. o OLD-FASHIONED PLEASURE-GARDENS sought to add art to nature. The vegetableswere banished, but the flower-beds werespared, and between them were fashionedsanded walks, and in the midst were erecteda dancing-pavilion and a stage for theatricalperformances. As this garden was on the Bowery Road,and that was then the chief driveway of thecity, it became exceedingly popular, and con-tinued so for many years. Even in 1827,when Lafayette Place was opened and cut thegarden in two, it was still kept up. But littleby little the grounds were crowded out. In1853 ^^^ Astor Library was erected quite inthe centre of the third Vauxhall, and twoyears later the last of the old garden buildingsdisappeared, and its days were ended. [293] SPRING VALLEY FARM
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