Bowling Green in the Nineteenth Century

1891

The Bowling Green, looking north from the beginning of Broadway, showing several of the old structures. Photograph by Brown Brothers, 1891. Source: New York Public Library.

The Columbia Building (at 29 Broadway, tallest building on the left, completed in 1891). The Standard Oil Building (on the right, completed in 1885), adjoining the Well Building (1882).

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The five-story office building on the northeast corner of Beaver Street occupies the site of the former Adelphi Hotel, destroyed in the Great Fire of 1845. Stevens House, former Delmonico's Hotel, is on the southwest corner of Morris Street. Aldrich Court is at 45 Broadway. The spire of Trinity Church can be seen in the distance.

Broadway, from Produce Exchange, in Bowling Green, to Standard Oil Building -1899.