Broadway, West Side. Exchange Alley to Trinity Church - 1899
Illustration shows buildings on the west side of Broadway, from Exchange Alley to Trinity Church. The International Navigation Company is in the Empire Building, completed in 1898, in the site of the old Grace Church.
From A Pictorial Description of Broadway, published in 1899 by the Mail & Express Company, publisher of the Evening Mail. Source: The New York Public Library.
◄ Empire Building, completed in 1898
Rector Street
The Rector Street was laid after 1739, originally named Robinson Street. The Empire Building was erected on the site of the old Lutheran Church, erected about 1674 and destroyed in the Great Fire of 1776. The original temple of the Grace Church was built on the same site from 1806 to 1809 and demolished in the 1840s. Then a 5-story commercial building was erected on the site, which was replaced by the Empire Building.
7 - Broadway, East Side. Exchange Place to Wall Street - 1899.
Buildings at 57, 59 and 61 Broadway. Exchange Alley is on the left.
4 - Broadway, west side. Morris Street to Exchange Alley - 1899.
5 - Broadway, east side, Hudson Building to Exchange Place - 1899.
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Broadway, West Side. Exchange Alley to Trinity Church - 1899