New York by sunlight and gaslight : a work descriptive of the great American metropolis ; its high and low life; its splendors and miseries; its virtu . oussmall shanties, which looked anything but attractivebefore East Canal street was made the street it is the spot where Samuel Ward, the King of theLobby, was born, in the two-story and attic buildingerected by his father, John Ward, is now the establish-ment of Brooks Brothers, fully ninety-five feet high, The corner of Fourteenth street and Union Square,where once stood the residence of the late Judge Roose*velts brother, fifty fe
New York by sunlight and gaslight : a work descriptive of the great American metropolis ; its high and low life; its splendors and miseries; its virtu . oussmall shanties, which looked anything but attractivebefore East Canal street was made the street it is the spot where Samuel Ward, the King of theLobby, was born, in the two-story and attic buildingerected by his father, John Ward, is now the establish-ment of Brooks Brothers, fully ninety-five feet high, The corner of Fourteenth street and Union Square,where once stood the residence of the late Judge Roose*velts brother, fifty feet in height, is now occupied bythe Domestic Building, which is one hundred and twelvefeet high. A few doors west, the new building of theWheeler and Wilson Manufacturing Company, onehundred feet high, has taken the place of the OldMaison Doree, which was a low building not over forty-five feet in height. Tiffanys store, at Fifteenth streetand Union Square, with its roof ninety feet from thesidewalk, fills the place formerly occupied by the Rev,Dr. Cheevers Church—the Church of the Puritans—the roof of which was only thirty-five feet from the. DOMESTIC SEWTXG MACHINE 48 NEW YORK. ground. Across the Square, on the corner of Eas?Fourteenth street, the German Savings Bank buildingof ninety feet, with its mansard and high basement,has replaced the old Belvidere Hotel, while a blockfurther up, on the corner of East Fifteenth street, the Union Square Hotel,remodeled, has had fortyfeet added to its building owned bythe Singer Sewing Ma-chine Company, at EastSixteenth street andUnion Square, is nearlyone hundred feet high,while looking beyondthe Square, the eyetakes in at once theprominent store of Ar-nold, Constable & Co.,filling the entire blockbetween Eighteenthand Nineteenth streets,on the ground whereonly a very few yearsago stood nothing buttwo-story shanties. Further up town theStevens Apartment House, at Twenty-seventh streetand Fifth avenue, attracts
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