Astor House on Broadway

Broadway, looking north from the old Astor House, on the left. The City Hall Park and its fountain is to the right. Old carriages and pedestrians on the street. Illustration published in A Picture of New-York in 1846; with a short account of places in its vicinity; designed as a guide to citizens and strangers. Copyright 1845. Published by Homans & Ellis, 295 Broadway.

The Astor House was a five-story luxury hotel located on Broadway, between Barclay Street and Vesey Street, north of St. Paul's Chapel. It opened in 1836 and, at the time, it contained 340 rooms and often entertained about six hundred guest. It is built round a quadrangular court, which had a fountain in the centre, later replaced by a spacious saloon, framed of iron, and richly decorated, in this open space, to be used as a kind of exchange and bar room. The hotel closed in 1913.

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