Panorama Broadway, West Side, New York City

Panorama of Broadway - 1848

This is a series of illustrations (some can be enlarged here), showing buildings on the West Side Broadway, from the Battery to Anthony Street (now Worth Street). It was published in the Jones & Newman's Pictorial Directory of New York, copyrighted 1848. Text on print: «Exhibiting a continued series of Colored Elevations, of all the Dwellings, Stores, and Public Buildings fronting in the principal streets, beginning with BROADWAY, the chief of all. Names, and to a certain extent signs, of Merchants and Traders are introduced on the plates; to which is added a reference to the numbers of the Houses, arranged so as to show the name and trade of every occupant, with their business cards. Published by Jones & Newman, Lithographers, 128 Fulton Street, and sold by Berford & Co., No. 2 Astor House, and by all Periodical Booksellers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by Jones & Newman, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. G.W. & S. Turney, Stationers and Printers, 77 Chatham-st., N.Y.»

Edward Jones was a New York City lithographer from 1844-1849, associated with the firms of Jones and Palmer (1844) and Jones and Newman (1846-1848). George W. Newman was also a lithographer in NYC from 1846-1849. See the Panorama of the East Side Broadway ►

West side Broadway, facing Bowling Green, from Battery Place to Morris Street (1-27 Broadway). Some of these buildings were built after the Great Fire of 1845. From a reprint in the Valentine's Manual, 1919. Continuation below.

Lower Broadway, between Fulton and Cortlandt streets, with Dey St. in between. Franklin House (193-197) is on the right (click to enlarge).

Battery Place and the beginning of Broadway are to the right (click to enlarge).

Kennedy House

(1 Broadway)

East side of State Street, between Bridge Street (to the right) and Bowling Green Row. The beginning of Broadway is to the left (click to enlarge).

Continuation of the illustration above. From Morris Street to Tin Pot Alley (now Exchange Alley). Reprint in the Valentine's Manual, 1919.

(13) Barker, Dr. Kearney

Below, continuation from 43 Broadway to Rector Street, with Exchange Place (now Exchange Alley) in between, from a later reprint, NYPL.

Mansion House at 39-41 Broadway, served as the second U.S. Presidential Mansion, where President George Washington occupied in 1790.

(19 to 27) Delmonico's Hotel, Stevens House in 1856

(9-11) Atlantic Garden

Original site King's Arms Tavern

Panorama of Broadway - 1848

(3-5) Atlantic Hotel

New England Hotel, 111 Broadway

City Hotel (113-119 Broadway), between Cedar and Thames streets. Closed in 1849.

Exchange Place (now Exchange Alley)

(35 and 37) Boarding houses

▲137 - Merchants House

171 - Henry Salisbury & Co. Jewellers

▲ 247 - Site of the Mason's Arms Tavern in the 18th century

▲169 - Buckland & Sumner, Publishers and booksellers

▲177 - Blunt & Syms, gunmakers

▲149 - Lafayette Bazaar

273-287 Broadway (click to enlarge).

199 Broadway to St. Paul's Chapel, with Fulton St. on the right (click to enlarge).

258-260 Furnishing store

229 - 233 American Hotel

271 Tiffany, Young & Ellis, Jewelry

303 Durangs Daguerreotype