Winter Scene on Broadway at Spring Street

A 19th century winter scene on Broadway (about 1854), south from near Prince Street. Color printed aquatint, engraved by Paul Girardet (1821–1893) after French painter Hippolyte-Victor Valentin Sebron (1801-1879) and published by the art dealer Michael Knoedler. Hippolyte Sebron traveled to Canada and the United States, from 1849 to 1855 and participated in the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York (1853 / 1854).

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The view looks down Broadway from near Spring Street. On the right, buildings on the west side Broadway, where we can see the Buckley's Minstrel Hall (with a sign over the entrance, "Buckley's"). On the northwest corner of Spring Street stands the Prescott House (529 and 531 Broadway). The six-story St. Nicholas Hotel, with its large white marble façade and its dark five-story northern wing, is on the southwest corner of Spring Street. It opened in January 1853 as a luxury hotel. It was fully completed in March, 1854 and closed in 1884.

On the left, two Chinese men is carrying advertisements for P.T. Barnum's American Museum, in front of the 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.