Fifth Avenue from Start to Finish - 1911: Broadway and Fifth Avenue from Madison Square
Wide-angled photograph showing the intersection of Broadway and Fifth Avenue from Madison Square. The West 23rd Street is to the left and no. 202 Berlitz, School of Languages is on the right, in front of Worth Square. You can see also Fifth Avenue Building (United Cigar Co.), Albemarle Hotel, Hoffman House, West 24th Street. Photo published by Welles & Co. NY, 1911. Source: New York Public Library.
On the northwest corner of 25th Street stands the 12-story Townsend Building at 1123 Broadway, completed in 1897. The St James Building, on the southwest corner of 26th Street, completed in 1896-1898 on the site of the old St James Hotel, was built in 1857.
Enlargements below.
18 - Fifth Avenue, east side. East 22nd Street and Flatiron Building.
Above, enlargement of the part on the right with Worth Square and its monument.
17 - Fifth Avenue, west side, West 22nd Street.
20 - Madison Square - 1911.
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