Seventh Regiment Marching Down Broadway - 1861
Original title: The Seventh Regiment Marching down Broadway to Embrace for the War. Prior to their departure for Washington. Illustration published in the Harper's Weekly, May 4, 1861.
Looking north from Broome Street, showing building on west side Broadway. The St. Nicholas Hotel is on the left, southwest corner of Spring Street. On the northwest corner stands the Prescott House, named after the historian William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859).
The St. Nicholas Hotel comprises the large white marble structure and its dark northern wing reaching to the corner of Spring Street. The hotel opened in January 1853 and was completed in 1854. It closed in 1884.
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About the same angle some years earlier.
South from Spring Street. Opposite direction.
Seventh Regiment Marching Down Broadway - 1861
