A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . ot spare the heroof Louisbourg, but it is a pity that man could not havespared the splendid avenues of locusts wdiich Sir Peterhad planted with his own hand, and which were cutdown in the summer of 1865, when the old house wasdemolished. In the near neighborhood of the Warren mansionwas the old Spencer homestead, at the corner ofFourth and West Tenth streets. It was erected at thebeginning of the century by Garrett Gilbert, a well-known character of that day, who soon ran throughhis fortune and put his homest
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . ot spare the heroof Louisbourg, but it is a pity that man could not havespared the splendid avenues of locusts wdiich Sir Peterhad planted with his own hand, and which were cutdown in the summer of 1865, when the old house wasdemolished. In the near neighborhood of the Warren mansionwas the old Spencer homestead, at the corner ofFourth and West Tenth streets. It was erected at thebeginning of the century by Garrett Gilbert, a well-known character of that day, who soon ran throughhis fortune and put his homestead up for sale. If aspendthrift, however, he was possessed of taste, andhis cottage, with its peaked roof and veranda front,was considered at the time the most beautiful of thecitys suburban residences. The grounds were laid outwith great taste, abounding in flowers and fruit-trees;and the fish-ponds in them, fed from a number of cis-terns, were the marvel of the day. When the estatewas sold, Senator Marcus Spencer became its pur-chaser, and the house went by his name afterwards,. 1. Battery 2. Castle Williams $. Governors Island U. 3-Gun BatteryFORTIFICATIONS AROUND NEW YORK—lSl4 284 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK and is commemorated by the present Spencer the prevalence of the yellow-fever in 1822 thecity Post-ofHce was temporarily established at thisbuilding, but was subsequently removed to the cornerof Asylum (now Fourth) and Bank streets. A fewrepresentatives of the magnificent trees which oncesurrounded the house are still standing in West TenthStreet; and after the Spencer mansion was torn down,in 1872, Dr. Hall, the Senators son-in-law, enclosed alarge portion of the old garden, which lay in the inte-rior of the block, as a garden for his residence in WestTenth Street, and there it still lies hidden from thepublic eye, bright with flowers and shaded by ancienttrees, a mute memorial of the last of the old home-steads below the homes of the Strykers and
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