12115.
No. 793 (could be 193). Stuyvesant Place.
Buildings
12116.
No. 109. Park Ave. East Side.
12117.
317. New Post Office.
12118.
No. 346. Young Men’s C.A.
12119.
No. 347. Blind Asylum.
12120.
No. 481. Custom House.
12123.
No. 317. New Post Office. P.T. Barnum sign as a bill post in view.
12124.
No. 277. Broadway North from 8th St.
12128.
No. 338. Park Avenue.
12129.
No. 298. Herald Building. Pach’s photo wagon is in the view.
12291.
Gilmore’s Garden-New York. Renamed Madison Square Garden in 1879.
Madison Square Garden (1879–1890) was an arena in New York City at the northeast corner of East 26th Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan. The first venue to use that name, it seated 10,000 spectators. It was replaced with a new building on the same site.
The site upon which Madison Square Garden was eventually established was originally occupied by a small passenger depot of the New York and Harlem Railroad. The site was vacated by the railroad in 1871 when it moved operations uptown to Grand Central Depot at 42nd Street. The site was vacant until 1874 when it was leased to P. T. Barnum who converted it into an open oval arena 270 feet (82 m) long, with seats and benches in banks, which he named the Great Roman Hippodrome where he presented circuses and other performances. The roofless building was also called Barnum’s Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome and measured 420 feet (130 m) by 200 feet (61 m).
In 1876, the arena was leased to band leader Patrick Gilmore, who renamed it Gilmore’s Garden and presented flower shows, beauty contests, music concerts, temperance and revival meetings, walking marathons, and the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, called at the time (1877) the “First Annual N.Y. Bench Show.” Gilmore also presented boxing, but since competitive boxing matches were technically illegal at the time, he called them “exhibitions” or “illustrated lectures.”
The next to lease the space was W. M. Tileston, who was an official of the dog show. He attempted to attract a more genteel crowd with tennis, a riding school and an ice carnival;[1] the arena had one of the first indoor ice rinks in the United States.
After the death of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who owned the site, his grandson William Kissam Vanderbilt took back control and announced on May 31, 1879, that the arena was to be renamed “Madison Square Garden.” Vanderbilt presented sporting events such as indoor track and field meets, a convention of Elks, the National Horse Show and more boxing, including some bouts featuring John L. Sullivan, who began a four-year series of exhibitions in July 1882, drawing over-capacity crowds. P.T. Barnum also used the Garden to exhibit Jumbo, the elephant he had bought from the London Zoo; he drew sufficient business to recover the $10,000 pricetag.
Another notable use of the first Garden was as a velodrome, an oval bicycle racing track with banked curves. At the time, bicycle racing was one of the biggest sports in the country. “[The] top riders [were] among the sports stars of their day. The bike races at Madison Square Garden were all the rage around the turn of the last century.” Madison Square Garden was the most important bicycle racing track in the United States and the Olympic discipline known as the Madison is named after the original Garden.
However, the Garden was hot in the summertime and freezing in the wintertime. It had a leaky roof and dangerous balconies that had collapsed resulting in deaths. Vanderbilt eventually sold what Harper’s Weekly called his “patched-up, grimy, drafty, combustible old shell” to a syndicate that included J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, James Stillman and W. W. Astor, who closed it to build a new arena designed by noted architect Stanford White. Demolition began in July 1889, and the second Madison Square Garden, which cost more than a half-million dollars to build, opened on June 6, 1890. It was demolished in 1926, and the New York Life Building, designed by Cass Gilbert and completed in 1928, replaced it on the site.
12292.
Wood’s Museum. Located at 1221 Broadway between 29 & 30 Sts.
12298.
916. Interior Gilmore’s Concert Garden. Renamed Madison Square Garden in 1879.
Madison Square Garden (1879–1890) was an arena in New York City at the northeast corner of East 26th Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan. The first venue to use that name, it seated 10,000 spectators. It was replaced with a new building on the same site.
The site upon which Madison Square Garden was eventually established was originally occupied by a small passenger depot of the New York and Harlem Railroad. The site was vacated by the railroad in 1871 when it moved operations uptown to Grand Central Depot at 42nd Street. The site was vacant until 1874 when it was leased to P. T. Barnum who converted it into an open oval arena 270 feet (82 m) long, with seats and benches in banks, which he named the Great Roman Hippodrome where he presented circuses and other performances. The roofless building was also called Barnum’s Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome and measured 420 feet (130 m) by 200 feet (61 m).
In 1876, the arena was leased to band leader Patrick Gilmore, who renamed it Gilmore’s Garden and presented flower shows, beauty contests, music concerts, temperance and revival meetings, walking marathons, and the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, called at the time (1877) the “First Annual N.Y. Bench Show.” Gilmore also presented boxing, but since competitive boxing matches were technically illegal at the time, he called them “exhibitions” or “illustrated lectures.”
The next to lease the space was W. M. Tileston, who was an official of the dog show. He attempted to attract a more genteel crowd with tennis, a riding school and an ice carnival;[1] the arena had one of the first indoor ice rinks in the United States.
After the death of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who owned the site, his grandson William Kissam Vanderbilt took back control and announced on May 31, 1879, that the arena was to be renamed “Madison Square Garden.” Vanderbilt presented sporting events such as indoor track and field meets, a convention of Elks, the National Horse Show and more boxing, including some bouts featuring John L. Sullivan, who began a four-year series of exhibitions in July 1882, drawing over-capacity crowds. P.T. Barnum also used the Garden to exhibit Jumbo, the elephant he had bought from the London Zoo; he drew sufficient business to recover the $10,000 pricetag.
Another notable use of the first Garden was as a velodrome, an oval bicycle racing track with banked curves. At the time, bicycle racing was one of the biggest sports in the country. “[The] top riders [were] among the sports stars of their day. The bike races at Madison Square Garden were all the rage around the turn of the last century.” Madison Square Garden was the most important bicycle racing track in the United States and the Olympic discipline known as the Madison is named after the original Garden.
However, the Garden was hot in the summertime and freezing in the wintertime. It had a leaky roof and dangerous balconies that had collapsed resulting in deaths. Vanderbilt eventually sold what Harper’s Weekly called his “patched-up, grimy, drafty, combustible old shell” to a syndicate that included J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, James Stillman and W. W. Astor, who closed it to build a new arena designed by noted architect Stanford White. Demolition began in July 1889, and the second Madison Square Garden, which cost more than a half-million dollars to build, opened on June 6, 1890. It was demolished in 1926, and the New York Life Building, designed by Cass Gilbert and completed in 1928, replaced it on the site.
12299.
The New York Museum of Anatomy. This was located at 618 Broadway.
12307.
New York Orphan Asylum, Bloomingdale. Between 70th and 80th Streets, Instituted 1806. Number of Orphans about 200.
12308.
New York Orphan Asylum, Bloomingdale. Between 70th and 80th Streets, Instituted 1806. Number of Orphans about 200.
12309.
New York Orphan Asylum, Bloomingdale. Between 70th and 80th Streets, Instituted 1806. Number of Orphans about 200.
12311.
Academy of Music, New York. At the corner of Fourteenth Street and Irving Place.
12312.
Institution for the Blind, New York.
12329.
Academy of Music.
12332.
Post Office and Nassau Street in New York.
12333.
Gilmore’s Garden, New York. Renamed Madison Square Garden in 1879.
Madison Square Garden (1879–1890) was an arena in New York City at the northeast corner of East 26th Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan. The first venue to use that name, it seated 10,000 spectators. It was replaced with a new building on the same site.
The site upon which Madison Square Garden was eventually established was originally occupied by a small passenger depot of the New York and Harlem Railroad. The site was vacated by the railroad in 1871 when it moved operations uptown to Grand Central Depot at 42nd Street. The site was vacant until 1874 when it was leased to P. T. Barnum who converted it into an open oval arena 270 feet (82 m) long, with seats and benches in banks, which he named the Great Roman Hippodrome where he presented circuses and other performances. The roofless building was also called Barnum’s Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome and measured 420 feet (130 m) by 200 feet (61 m).
In 1876, the arena was leased to band leader Patrick Gilmore, who renamed it Gilmore’s Garden and presented flower shows, beauty contests, music concerts, temperance and revival meetings, walking marathons, and the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, called at the time (1877) the “First Annual N.Y. Bench Show.” Gilmore also presented boxing, but since competitive boxing matches were technically illegal at the time, he called them “exhibitions” or “illustrated lectures.”
The next to lease the space was W. M. Tileston, who was an official of the dog show. He attempted to attract a more genteel crowd with tennis, a riding school and an ice carnival;[1] the arena had one of the first indoor ice rinks in the United States.
After the death of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who owned the site, his grandson William Kissam Vanderbilt took back control and announced on May 31, 1879, that the arena was to be renamed “Madison Square Garden.” Vanderbilt presented sporting events such as indoor track and field meets, a convention of Elks, the National Horse Show and more boxing, including some bouts featuring John L. Sullivan, who began a four-year series of exhibitions in July 1882, drawing over-capacity crowds. P.T. Barnum also used the Garden to exhibit Jumbo, the elephant he had bought from the London Zoo; he drew sufficient business to recover the $10,000 pricetag.
Another notable use of the first Garden was as a velodrome, an oval bicycle racing track with banked curves. At the time, bicycle racing was one of the biggest sports in the country. “[The] top riders [were] among the sports stars of their day. The bike races at Madison Square Garden were all the rage around the turn of the last century.” Madison Square Garden was the most important bicycle racing track in the United States and the Olympic discipline known as the Madison is named after the original Garden.
However, the Garden was hot in the summertime and freezing in the wintertime. It had a leaky roof and dangerous balconies that had collapsed resulting in deaths. Vanderbilt eventually sold what Harper’s Weekly called his “patched-up, grimy, drafty, combustible old shell” to a syndicate that included J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, James Stillman and W. W. Astor, who closed it to build a new arena designed by noted architect Stanford White. Demolition began in July 1889, and the second Madison Square Garden, which cost more than a half-million dollars to build, opened on June 6, 1890. It was demolished in 1926, and the New York Life Building, designed by Cass Gilbert and completed in 1928, replaced it on the site.
12334.
Building the new Post Office & Park Row.
12335.
169. Tammany Hall, 14th St., N.Y.
12338.
Washington’s Headquarters–Brooklyn.
12404.
Customs House/Merchant’s Exchange, NY.
12425.
New Post Office Interior, New York.
12429.
The catastrophe at Madison Square Garden.
12433.
Tammany Hall, 14th Street, New York. July 4, 1868.
12436.
U.S. Sub-Treasury Building, New York.
12439.
Jefferson Market, N.Y. City.
12446.
The ‘Barracks’ of the 4th Ward, 36 & 38 Cherry St. faces 30 ft on st. and runs back 245 ft. Made originally for 150 families but remodeled for 114. Children’s Educational Relief Association, 473 Grand St., N.Y.
12458.
Brooklyn Court House and City Hall in background. Circa 1864. Shows the Photograph Gallery of Charles A. Rawson, 255 & 257 Fulton St. in Brooklyn since 1859. Later moved to 326 Fulton. Also shows Douglass Photo Studio at 330 Fulton St. Corner of Washington St. in 1863.
12473.
338-Castle Garden.
12674.
Park Bank Building.
12499.
Dry Dock Savings Bank.
12503.
City Hall–New York.
12505.
Printing House Square-New York.
12506.
Beecher’s Residence-Columbia Heights, Brooklyn.
12507.
Pierrepont Stores-Brooklyn.
12508.
Penitentiary-Flatbush, L.I. Built in 1879. Raymond Street Jail, between Willoughby and Dekalb Aves. It was the official Kings County Jail. It was closed in 1963 and razed the following year.
12509.
Summer House, Union Square, N.Y.
12510.
Park Police Headquarters-Union Square, New York.
12511.
Bleecker St. Savings Bank-New York.
12514.
Masonic Temple-New York.
12517.
Park Bank.
12518.
Castle Garden, N.Y. Commissioner of Emigration on sign.
12520.
Long Island Club House, Clinton & Remsen Sts., Brooklyn.
12522.
No. 50. Unidentified NYC street scene.
12524.
Academy of Design. The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others “to promote the fine arts in America through instruction and exhibition.” Membership is limited to 450 American artists and architects, who are elected by their peers on the basis of recognized excellence. The Academy occupied several locations in Manhattan over the years. Notable among them was this building on Park Avenue and 23rd Street designed by architect P. B. Wight and built 1863–1865 in a Venetian Gothic style modeled on the Doge’s Palace in Venice.