Literary New York . ut nevertheless the same HellGate that Irving looked upon andthat Irving wrote about. Part ofthis park were the grounds of JohnJacob Astor, the friend of house stood beyond the park,where Eighty-eighth Street nowtouches East End Avenue,—a squaretwo-story frame dwelling of colonialtype, painted white, with deep ver-anda, wide halls, and spacious rooms ;set high upon a hill, backed by aforest of towering trees, and frontedby a vast lawn stretching by gentleslope to the cliff at the Irving was a guest, and wroteAstoria, telling of Astors settlementon
Literary New York . ut nevertheless the same HellGate that Irving looked upon andthat Irving wrote about. Part ofthis park were the grounds of JohnJacob Astor, the friend of house stood beyond the park,where Eighty-eighth Street nowtouches East End Avenue,—a squaretwo-story frame dwelling of colonialtype, painted white, with deep ver-anda, wide halls, and spacious rooms ;set high upon a hill, backed by aforest of towering trees, and frontedby a vast lawn stretching by gentleslope to the cliff at the Irving was a guest, and wroteAstoria, telling of Astors settlementon the Columbia River and of scenesbeyond the Rockies; here he metCaptain Bonneville and his friends,and the journals of the one andthrilling tales of the other gave ma-terial for the Adventures of CaptainBonneville. The City that Irving Knew The house of Astor is gone now,but within the limits of this park stillstands the home of Grade, the mer-chant, where Irving was a constantvisitor, and where, in the rooms given. WArrf frVirry ttrJ-e/* Aiforjii over to stranger hands, still lingermemories of Paulding and Halleck,Bancroft and Drake, and a host ofothers. It was while working on Astoriathat Irving began the building ofWolferts Roost, theVan Tassel houseof the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, onthat delightful spot on the Hudson Literary New York which in the first days of Irvingsresidence there was called after time the name was changedto Irvington, in his honor, and Wol-ft:rts Roost, in honor of the gloriouscountry, became Sunnyside. It isSunnyside to this day, altered by ad-ditions made in the intervening years,but still the house of Irving ; and theivy clinging to its walls has sprungfrom a root taken from the ruins ofScotts fair Melrose and plantedwhere it now grows by the friendlyhand of Jane Ren wick. On the corner of SeventeenthStreet and Irving Place (a thorough-fare to which his memory gave aname), late inlife, Irvinglived wasonce thehome of JohnT. Irv
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