Old New York yesterday & today . ©I]E Qlustont ^ouBC •At the foot of Broadway on the same site on which stood originally Fort .Amsterdam and the Government House. Old SteamshipRow, a row of brick houses preceded the Custom ^U-oabfaao front ^ofclmg (SreEn, 1825 Looking up from No. i Broadway west side to Trinity Church, 1825, showing Kennedy, Watts and Livingston houses (Nos. i, 3 andS), built ni 1760. I he Kennedy house was occupied by British officers during the Revolution. Robert Fulton died in the house whichstood just in the rear. It was from the Kennedy House that Andre started ou
Old New York yesterday & today . ©I]E Qlustont ^ouBC •At the foot of Broadway on the same site on which stood originally Fort .Amsterdam and the Government House. Old SteamshipRow, a row of brick houses preceded the Custom ^U-oabfaao front ^ofclmg (SreEn, 1825 Looking up from No. i Broadway west side to Trinity Church, 1825, showing Kennedy, Watts and Livingston houses (Nos. i, 3 andS), built ni 1760. I he Kennedy house was occupied by British officers during the Revolution. Robert Fulton died in the house whichstood just in the rear. It was from the Kennedy House that Andre started out on his ill-fated journey to meet Arnold; and after the=^^on, Arnold was quartered in the Bowhng Green Building, then a tavern called The Kings Arms. Daniel Webster lived at t. L. Barnum and Jenny Lind boarded at the Stevens House, Nos. 21 to 27. This block now occupied by the new Steamship Row
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