Identifier: newyorkmetropoli00spra_0 (find matches)
Title: New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men.
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Sprague, John Franklin.
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Publisher: (New York) : New York Recorder
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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d over the Northern andEastern part of the city arc, the magnificent Cathedral of St. John the Divine (Protestant E))iscopal). now incourse of erection, which will cost, when finished, over §6,000,000. It will be the highest building in the worldnext to the Eiffel Tower, and the noblest fane in America. It is splendidly situated on Morningside Park,between i loth and 113th Streets. Then tliere are Mount St. Vincent Academy, at Riverdale ; the Convent of theSacred Heart, St. Nicholas Avenue and 1.30th Street ; New York Cancer Hospital, Central Park West and io6thStreet ; the Grant Monument, now being erected at Riverside Park ; the Columbia College buildings, at River-dale ; the Carnegie Music Hall, at Fifty-seventh Street ; the Normal College, at Lexington Avenue and Sixty-ninth Street; the American Fine Arts Building, on Fifty-eighth Street; the American Museum of NaturalHistory, at Seventy-seventh Street, and the Union Theological Seminary, on Park Avenue. NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS.
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\\-.\\ ^oKK lloSlllAL. xlvi NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS. Working downtown the explorer of the architectural beauties will find the College of the Citv of NewYork, at Lexington Avenue and Twenty-third Street ; the Academy of Design, also on Twenty-third Street ; theMasonic Hall, on Twenty-third Street; the Jefferson Market Court House, on Sixth Avenue. Then crossing tothe Bowery, there are the dear old Cooper Union, the Astor Library Building, the Tombs and the new CrimrnalCourt House adjoining. With a jump to Nassau, the great office buildings loom up again, and there are thegreat iron and brick piles known as the Vanderbilt, the Mutual Life Insurance Building and the Clearing House;on Wall Street, are the Sub-Treasury, the Assay Office and the Custom House, also some magnificent officebuildings, including the Schermerhorn, the Astor, the Manhattan Company and Merchants National Bank, the 1

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