. A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century . enemy, namely, on September 21, the west-terly side of the town was visited by a conflagration, probably of ac-cidental origin, which is thus descril)ed in the diary of the residentMoravian pastor, Ewald Gustav Schaukirk; In the first hour ofthe day, soon after midnight, the whole city was alarmed by a dread-ful fire, wdiich raged all the night and till about noon. The windwas pretty high from the southeast and drove the flames to the north-west. It broke out about White Hall, destroye
. A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century . enemy, namely, on September 21, the west-terly side of the town was visited by a conflagration, probably of ac-cidental origin, which is thus descril)ed in the diary of the residentMoravian pastor, Ewald Gustav Schaukirk; In the first hour ofthe day, soon after midnight, the whole city was alarmed by a dread-ful fire, wdiich raged all the night and till about noon. The windwas pretty high from the southeast and drove the flames to the north-west. It broke out about White Hall, destroyed a part of Broad,Stone and Beaver streets, the Broadway, and then the streets goingto the North River, and along that river as far as the Kings pains were taken to save Trinity Church, but in vain ; it wasdestroyed, as also the old Lutheran Church; and St. Pauls, at theupper end of Broadway, escaped very narrowly. Four hundred andninety-three houses were laid in ruin. Two years later another firedestroved almost the whole of the block south of Pearl street, be-tween Coenties and Old 26 A HISTORY OF REAL EST AT II, During the Revolution most of the patrician families remainedloyal to the king. On the withdrawal of the British troops they wereovertaken by the same fate which, at the beginning of hostilities, hadbeen meted out to the Whig leaders—they were driven from the cityand their estates confiscated. The exodus of the Tories and the re-turn of the Patriots made the Young American element, with itsnervous activity and practical bent, predominant in affairs, a circum-stance which partlv explains the rapidity of the communitys recov-ery from the effects of the war. Within three or, at the utmost,four vears of the formal declaration of peace the city had completelyregained its lost population. The adoption of the Constitution put an end to the commercialstrife between individual States which had been allowed to grow upunder the old Articles of Confederat
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