New Amsterdam and its people : studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule . shedby the small and rude t;ivenis which already existed thereIt was decided to establish, somewhat after the patteui ofAmsterdam, a Stadts Ilcrbcrgh, or City Tavern, undei theauspices of the West India Company. This building was asubstantial edifice of stone, and was completed during theyear 1641. It was designedly placed in a very conspicuousposition near the shore of the East River, which one of its sidesfaced, and at the time of its erection it formed a most piominent landmark
New Amsterdam and its people : studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule . shedby the small and rude t;ivenis which already existed thereIt was decided to establish, somewhat after the patteui ofAmsterdam, a Stadts Ilcrbcrgh, or City Tavern, undei theauspices of the West India Company. This building was asubstantial edifice of stone, and was completed during theyear 1641. It was designedly placed in a very conspicuousposition near the shore of the East River, which one of its sidesfaced, and at the time of its erection it formed a most piominent landmark, standing entirely apart from the houses of thetown. Back of it lay the road, or Iloogh Straet, from whicha lane or passageway on the east side of the building gaveaccess to the open space between it and the shore. This lane, |after the City Tavern had become, in 1654, the Stadt Hujs, orTown Hall, was frequently spoken of, in English times, asthe State House Lane, or Hall Lane; it exists at thepKisent day as the narrow passageway, known as CocntiesAlley, a curious little dark street between high and almost %. THE STADTS HERBKlKiJI 17T blank walls; it is overhung by rusty fire-escapes, uud furnishedwith miniature sidewallis, of about two feet wide. The original ground-r^ot attached to the City Tavern,appears to have been a strip about tifty feet in width, extend-ing from Hoogh Straet to tlie liast Jliver shore, but in theyear 1651, upon the confiscation of ijic adjoining land ofCornelis Melyn,^ enough of tliat land appears to have beenadded to the tuvern plot to make the wiiole parcel about onehundred and five feet in front upon the shore, and a few feetless tiian that distance upon Hoogh Straet. The premises, soenlarged, seem to have been then surrounded by a fence; pre-viously, they had been open and unenclosed. The additionalground was doubtless used for a time for garden Collating carefully the various deeds for portions of thesepremises, made from time to time i
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