Broadway and American Museum, New York City

Broadway and American Museum - 1831

View down Broadway from the Park, Scudder's American Museum and St. Paul's Chapel. Engraving published in June 1831 by Peabody & Co. (New York) and Obadiah Rich (London), in the Views in New-York and its Environs... Drawn by architect J.H. Dakin, engraved by Barnard & Dick. Source: New York Public Library

Lower Broadway looking south from the southern end of City Hall Park, showing a street scene with pedestrians, equestrians and carriages (Broadway Accomodation on the right). The historic St. Paul's Chapel, second temple built in the late 18th century, is on the southern side of Vesey Street, on the right. The second temple of Trinity Church and the old Grace Church are in the distance on Broadway. On the left is old American Museum at Broadway and Ann Street, a site that it occupied from 1830 to 1865.