Old Broadway Stages and St. Paul Chapel

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 ►

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