New York of to-day. . GRACE CHURCH (EPISCOPAL) Broadway and 10th Street, was erected in ST. PATRICKS CATHEDRAL (ROMAN CATHOLIC) 5th Avenue, 50th and 1845. It is built of white limestone in Gothic style and is one of the finest church 51st Streets, is the most beautiful church edifice in America, and ranks with edifices in the city. The spire is particularly graceful and contains a melodious famous cathedrals in foreign lands. It is built of white marble. The structure chime of bells. A rectory, harmonious in design, adjoins the church. alone cost $2,000, 1 THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF FINE
New York of to-day. . GRACE CHURCH (EPISCOPAL) Broadway and 10th Street, was erected in ST. PATRICKS CATHEDRAL (ROMAN CATHOLIC) 5th Avenue, 50th and 1845. It is built of white limestone in Gothic style and is one of the finest church 51st Streets, is the most beautiful church edifice in America, and ranks with edifices in the city. The spire is particularly graceful and contains a melodious famous cathedrals in foreign lands. It is built of white marble. The structure chime of bells. A rectory, harmonious in design, adjoins the church. alone cost $2,000, 1 THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS is on the 5th Avenue side of Central Park at 79th Street. The view here shown is of the newer eastwing erected at a cost of $1,000,000. The museum contains the finest collection of paintings, statuary and antiques in America. On Sunday, the building iscrowded with sightseers. Ten thousand persons frequently pass through the turnstiles in the four hours allotted to the free public. No art museum in theworld, possibly excepting the Louvre, has surroundings so harmonious. The Park on one side and the palaces of 5th Avenue on the other are fitting environmentfor this unequalled collection of art treasures. TRINITY CHURCH, Broadway at the head of Wall Street. The presentstructure is of brown sandstone in Gothic style and was completed in 1847. Thechurch society is the richest in America, and maintains besides the parent church,eight chapels, schools, a dispensary hospital, and a long list of charitable enter-prises. TRINITY CHURCH INTERIOR. The bronze
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