Identifier: ldpd_6274881_000 (find matches)
Title: Valentine's manual of the city of New York, 1917-1918
Year: 1918 (1910s)
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Subjects: New York (N.Y.)--History--Periodicals. New York (N.Y.)--Description and travel--Periodicals. New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--Periodicals.
Publisher: Old Colony Press,
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries

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oo, are pre-served the desk and table used by President Washingtonduring his first term. The table is inscribed in letters ofgold: Washingtons writing table, 1789. The fine oldmahogany furniture is that which was used by the firstCongress of the United States in Federal Hall, in WallStreet. In front of the City Hall stands the Macmonniesbronze statue erected by the Society of the Sons of theRevolution in memory of Nathan Hale, a Captain of theRegular Army of the United States of America, whowas executed as a spy during the Revolution. Old Castle Garden r The circular building which is now the Aquarium wasoriginally a fort, Castle Clinton, built for the defense ofthe city against the British in the War of 1812; and thespot where it stands was then an island 200 feet fromthe shore. When in 1822, Congress ceded the propertyto the city, it was converted into a place of amusementand was named Castle Garden. It became the home ofopera, and was a place for great public gatherings. Here (110)
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Madison Avenue, si 45th StreetThe original Manhattan Athletic Club Building and north end of the oldtrain-shed of the Grand Central Depot—I8SS- Remodeled for the TiffanyStudios, and nnw being demolished to make way for trie mo*t important newbuilding of this section. on Lafayettes return to America in 1824, six thousandpersons assembled to greet him. Here in 1835 S. F. B.Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, publicly demon-strated by means of a wire coiled about the interior ofthe Garden, the practicability of controlling the electriccurrent. Here in 1850 Jenny Lind, the Swedish singer,made her American debut, under the management ofP. T. Barnum. The Prince of Wales and Louts Kos-suth arrived here. From 1855 to i8ox> Castle Gardenwas an immigrant bureau, through whose portals mil-lions of immigrants entered America and as such is wellremembered by many persons. It became the Aquariumin 1896. The most recent event of historical interest and onewhich is destined probably to become

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