Outline of a new city hall, requiring no tax or expenditure by the city .. . Row, including, ofcourse, Washington Monument, shall be under the direction and super-intendence of the United States Authorities. Other influences being insufficient, the metropolitan and patrioticemulation, and direct interests of the great mass of our citizens, will un-doubtedly soon have the efflsct so far to harmonize conflicting politicalpurposes and plans, as to allow our capitalists, with their money, and ourarchitects, artists, contractors, mechanics and laborers, with their knownenergy, skill and industry, t
Outline of a new city hall, requiring no tax or expenditure by the city .. . Row, including, ofcourse, Washington Monument, shall be under the direction and super-intendence of the United States Authorities. Other influences being insufficient, the metropolitan and patrioticemulation, and direct interests of the great mass of our citizens, will un-doubtedly soon have the efflsct so far to harmonize conflicting politicalpurposes and plans, as to allow our capitalists, with their money, and ourarchitects, artists, contractors, mechanics and laborers, with their knownenergy, skill and industry, to build, without delay, the City Hall hereinoutlined—a City Hall with arches, colonnades, balconies, promenades,monuments, halls, rooms for courts, public and private offices, banks,stores, post office, &c., making, iu the hands of the capitalists, architects,artists, contractors, mechanics and laborers aforesaid, the most magnifi- 19 cent and desirable combination in the world for he purposes designed,namely : ornament, recreation, public and private business The above engraving of the City Hall I [propose, taken from themodel before mentioned, and the best I can now afford, shows promi-nently Washington Monument and the fronts ou Park Row and CentreStreet. All the smaller monuments should be more prominent. Madi-son. Jefferson and Franklin monuments should be nearly twice theheight represented above Monument Park. All the balconies and thetop of the fronts on Broadway and Chamber Street, should have theGothic pointing and decoration which the top of the fronts on Park Rowand Centre Street represent. I remark, in conclusion, that I have made the proposals, specificationsand suggestions contained in this pamphlet without the advice, councilor knowledge of any one, although not by occupation an architect; andthat my purpose is, and has been, through much effort and perseverancefor now over three years, to propose a City Hall, worthy and certainto be built, and when built
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