Broadway near Spring Street - 1859
Original title: Broadway, as seen from Dr. Chapin's Church. Published by James Miller, in 1859, in the Miller's New York as it is; or Stranger's Guide-Book to the Cities of New York, Brooklyn and Adjacent Places.
This illustration shows buildings on west side Broadway, looking south from "Dr. Chapin's Church". This was the former Church of the Divine Unity in which Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814-1880) was a preacher of the Fourth Universalist Society. The Church was built about 1845, at 548 Broadway, between Prince and Spring streets. It was demolished by 1866.
The six-story St. Nicholas Hotel, with its large white marble façade and its dark five-story northern wing, stretches to the southwest corner of Spring Street. It opened in January 1853 as a luxury. It was fully completed in March, 1854 and closed in 1884.
On the northwest corner of Spring Street stands the Prescott House (529 and 531 Broadway). The hotel was so named in honor of the historian William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859). It was built of brick with quaintly wrought stone work about the windows.
19th century structures on the the St. Nicholas.
Looking north from Broome Street.
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Broadway near Spring Street - 1859