Old Broadway Stages and St. Paul Chapel - 1831

 

 

Old Broadway Stages

 

 

Original title: The Old Broadway Stages in 1831 From a Print in "Valentine's Manual". Illustration published in Harper's Weekly (December 5, 1885).

View of Lower Broadway from Ann Street, looking toward St. Paul's Chapel, on the southern side of Vesey Street. The City Hall Park is to the right, outside the engraving. The old Scudder's American Museum (later Barnum's American Museum) is on the left. The buildings on the right were demolished by 1834 to make way for the Astor House, opened in 1836. More: Broadway at Park Row Intersection

 

Broadway NY 19th Century

 

Color version of the illustration above. Engraved by G.E. after a picture by Louis Augier.

 

Astor House

 

Lower Manhattan

 

Old Bowling Green

 

Park Row Ann Street

 

St. Paul's Chapel

 

 

Lower Broadway

 

Skyscrapers around the same area.

 

Chatham Street

 

Woolworth Building

 

Broadway Old New York

 

Old Broadway Stages and St. Paul Chapel - 1831

 

 

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