Bowling Green in 1887

 

View of the south end of Bowling Green in 1887, drawing by the American painter Frederick Leo Hunter (1858-1943).

Remainder of title: at left, the griffin wound around lighting fixture in front of no. 1 Broadway [Washington Building]; at right, the row of old houses at that time beginning to be known as "Steamship Row," [including the Consulate de France, with a flag] on site now occupied by United States Custom House; in background, Produce Exchange [completed in 1884]... Under right corner, remarque-sail-boat and floating grain elevator (?). Source: New York Public Library.

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