. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . ere often checkered or orna-mented on the face by patterns of darker bricks than the remainder of thewall. This arose from the fact that these early brick makers wasted none oftheir bricks, those burning black being utilized in the manner described for () r K V 1 K K M K N. 1013 forming ornaments. An old Dutch house of the kind buill in L626 and ;, stood on Pearl Street until , when it \\;is demolished. And s the growth of tIn* city went on. increasing1 rapidly y
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . ere often checkered or orna-mented on the face by patterns of darker bricks than the remainder of thewall. This arose from the fact that these early brick makers wasted none oftheir bricks, those burning black being utilized in the manner described for () r K V 1 K K M K N. 1013 forming ornaments. An old Dutch house of the kind buill in L626 and ;, stood on Pearl Street until , when it \\;is demolished. And s the growth of tIn* city went on. increasing1 rapidly year i>y year,Oner and better buildings being erected as time past. In L742 was erectedthe Washington Hotel, a Que building at the foul of Iboadw ay. which formedllic residence of Sir William Howe and other eminent men connected with thehistory of the city. The flrsl theater was opened in LTtfl, and in Ki>4 SandyHook was lirst provided with a lighthouse. We can now pass over the intervening years, during which the growth ofthe city steadily increased, until we come to the period of the beginning of. SEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY the present century. Certainly the most important building erected duringthat decade was the present existing City Hall, of which a fine engraving willbe found on page :!4:>. This building was commenced in the year 1803 andcompleted 1S1\!. It was originally placed in a tine and extensive park, wellplanted with trees. This has now been considerably diminished in size. It istwo hundred and sixteen feet in length, one hundred and five feet in breadth,and lifty-one feet high. It cost five hundred and fifty thousand dollars, andundoubtedly reflects great credit upon its originators. The building consistsof two stories, in addition to basement and attic floors, and contains theMayors office, the City Library, the chamber of the Common Council, andvarious other offices of the city authorities. 1014 OUR W 1 K E M E N. The style of architecture is tlx- Italian
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