City Hall Park, NY

The Park, 1826. Watercolor, pen and black ink, heightened with white, by architect Alexander Jackson Davis (1803–1892). Inscription on print: "Trees much affected by caterpillars that season". A similar drawing was made by the same author in 1827. Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The New York City Hall is to the right. It opened in 1812, when the city government moved from the old Federal Hall. The old Park Theater is on the left, on Chatham Street (now Park Row). Saint Paul's Church is in the distance, behind trees, on Broadway. The iron railing fence surrounding the Park was built in 1818 and completed in 1821, replacing the old post and rail fence built in 1785. The Enrico Causici's equestrian statue of Washington is represented in the center of the park. It was installed in 1826 and removed by the sculptor in the early 1830s.

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Other notable buildings indicated by the author are: Lovejoy's (left), M. Paffs and John Jacob Astor's house (center), American Hotel (northwest corner of Broadway and Barclay Street), Philip Hone (NYC mayor at the time), best house in N.Y. and William Colman, bookseller (New York Evening Post editor).