. Illustrated New York city and surroundings. A descriptive guide to places of interest. This institution was found-ed by Peter Cooper in 1859, andhas cost over one and a half milliondollars. The Institution is main-tained at an annual cost of |60, aim is purely educational. Itplaces within the reach of the poorof both sexes the opportunity to ac-quire a thorough education in thevaried branches of literature, art andscience. It provides evening classes for allthose who by reason of their avoca-tion are necessarily debarred fromday attendance. Its comprehensivecourses of lectures on art,
. Illustrated New York city and surroundings. A descriptive guide to places of interest. This institution was found-ed by Peter Cooper in 1859, andhas cost over one and a half milliondollars. The Institution is main-tained at an annual cost of |60, aim is purely educational. Itplaces within the reach of the poorof both sexes the opportunity to ac-quire a thorough education in thevaried branches of literature, art andscience. It provides evening classes for allthose who by reason of their avoca-tion are necessarily debarred fromday attendance. Its comprehensivecourses of lectures on art, naturalphilosophy and rhetoric are free. The department of art includesmodelling in clay and drawing fromlife and from casts, India ink,crayon, wood engraving, photo-graphy, perspective and oil course of study in the sciertific department includes a of mathematics as prelimi-nary to the study of practical en-gineering and mathematics. It has a free library and reading-room, where are found over 300papers and periodicals. 28 Illustrated Guide to New York Office of Charities and , between Third and Fourth Avenues and 8th and 9th Streets isthe Bible House, erected by the American Bible Society in 1852. Cost over$300,000. The great iron building occupying block between 9th and 10thStreets is E. J. Denning & Cos., dry goods store. Opposite 11th Streetis Grace Church Memorial Home. From 14th to 17th Streets is UnionSquare East. At the northwest corner of 17th Street is the EverettHouse, and at the corner of 18th Street is the Clarendon Hotel. Opposite,on the northwest corner is the Belvidere House, The quaint looking struc-ture at the corner of 20th Street is All Souls Church, one of the oldest Uni-tarian churches in the city. At 21st Street is the Calvary Episcopal the northeast corner of 22d Street is St. Pauls Methodist EpiscopalChurch, and opposite are the oflSces of the Society for the Prevention ofCruelty to Animals.
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