A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . ared that the house is doomed to destruc-tion. The land is in the market, and unless a specialeffort is made to secure its preservation, it will proba-bly be taken down and an ambitious modern villa willoccupy its site. Perhaps Hamilton Terrace, with its A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 233 proposed beautiful park, its lawns and tasteful dwell-ings, will be an improvement upon the dignified oldhomestead, the natural glory of the old forest land-scape, and the grove of thirteen trees which emblazonhistory in their tints
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . ared that the house is doomed to destruc-tion. The land is in the market, and unless a specialeffort is made to secure its preservation, it will proba-bly be taken down and an ambitious modern villa willoccupy its site. Perhaps Hamilton Terrace, with its A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 233 proposed beautiful park, its lawns and tasteful dwell-ings, will be an improvement upon the dignified oldhomestead, the natural glory of the old forest land-scape, and the grove of thirteen trees which emblazonhistory in their tints; but we who are conservativesfrom a former generation will hardly think so.* Speaking of old buildings reminds me that I havereceived a friendly criticism, by post, for not givingmore details of the Third Avenue, through which Ipassed on my stolen fishing excursion of forty yearsago. At that time, after leaving Astor Place, therewas nothing compact in the way of buildings untilwe reached Bulls Head Village, which extended fromSecond to Fourth avenues and from T-wenty-third to ^:^. THE HAMILTON HOUSE Twent}-seventh streets. Here was the great cattlemart of the city, and here it had been for twentyyears. But soon after it was removed to Forty-second * See note in Chapter xxvi., p. 330.—L. 234 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK Street, and thence to Ninety-fourth Street, from whichpoint it was transferred to the Jersey shore a fewyears since. The people of old Bulls Head Villageworshipped in the Presbyterian Church, now standingin Twenty-second Street west of Third Avenue; atthe Twenty-seventh Street Methodist Church, and atthe little Episcopal Chapel of St. John the Baptist,on the east side of Fourth Avenue, near Twenty-thirdStreet, which was demolished thirty years ago on thecompletion of the fine church of the same name atLexington Avenue and Thirty-fifth Street. After leaving Twenty-seventh Street and ThirdAvenue the traveller was in the country. There wasno other settlement until York
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