Old Broadway at City Hall Park - 1899
The old Broadway, looking north from the Post Office building at the southern end of City Hall Park. Undated photograph (about 1899), published in a stereograph card. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The City Hall Park is to the right. The Postal Telegraph
Building and the
Home Life
Building (both completed in 1894) are on the left, between Murray and Warren
streets. The Rogers Peet Building is under construction on the corner of
Warren Street. It was completed in April 1900 and designated a NYC landmark in
2010. On December 4, 1898, a fire destroyed the former building at 258 Broadway,
and severely damaged its neighbors to the south. The Chambers Building was also
under construction on the corner of Broadway and Chambers St., completed
in 1900.
This part of Broadway was laid out after 1750, when Trinity
Church leased lots on its old Church Farm. Before that, Broadway did not extended to the north beyond
St. Paul's Chapel.
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Dun Building, corner Reade Street, completed in 1898.
Broadway, Murray to Chambers Streets - 1899. Same buildings.
Murray Street
Postal Telegraph Cable Company Building (253 Broadway)
Old Broadway at City Hall Park - 1899
Office buildings on Broadway at Park Place, 1910.
