Franklin House, Dey St. and Buildings on West Side Broadway

Buildings on the west side Broadway (north is to the right), between Fulton Street (on the right, number 207 Broadway on the corner) and Cortlandt Street (number 173 Broadway on the corner), with Dey Street in between. Illustration copyrighted 1848, published in the Jones & Newman's Pictorial Directory of New York. Source: New York Public Library.

The Franklin House is on the left, on the northwest corner of Dey Street. This hotel was built in the 1830s (between 1930 and 1934), originally a four-story building, later expanded to five-story, as shown in the picture above. It was kept by Newton Hayes in the beginning, later he partnered with J.P. Treadwell. The Franklin House lost its shine in the 1860s and was demolished in 1873 to make was for the Western Union Telegraph Building.

The building at 181 Broadway housed A.G. Badger. Flute maker, Burguess, Daguerreotype and J.C. Watson, Taylor. At 183 Broadway was Beals & Co. Daguerrianmarts and J. Milhau, Druggist & Chemist. At 189 Broadway was Bagley's Gold Pen Manufactory, Daguerreotype taken by Gurney and P. Trainor, Saddlery Warehouse. At 189½ and 191 Broadway, corner of Dey St. was Cooley, Keese & Hill, Auction & Commission Store and Spalding & Sheppard.