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No. 109. Park Ave. East Side.
New York Orphan Asylum, Bloomingdale. Between 70th and 80th Streets, Instituted 1806. Number of Orphans about 200.
New York Orphan Asylum, Bloomingdale. Between 70th and 80th Streets, Instituted 1806. Number of Orphans about 200.
New York Orphan Asylum, Bloomingdale. Between 70th and 80th Streets, Instituted 1806. Number of Orphans about 200.
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.
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.
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.
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.