Fifth Avenue Hotel - 1892
The old Fifth Avenue Hotel on the corner West 23rd Street, facing Madison Square. Photograph published by Strohmeyer & Wyman, composed from a stereograph card, copyrighted 1892. Original title: Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, U.S.A. / Hotel de la Quinta Avenida, New York, E.U. de A. Additional text on print: Sold only by Underwood & Underwood, Liverpool; New York; Chicago; Toronto; Ottawa, Kas; El Paso, Tex. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The Fifth Avenue Hotel opened in 1859 and demolished in 1908. The store Knox the Hatter, on the ground floor, replaced Dunlap & Co. Hatters in 1871.
Overhead wires and utility poles were gone.
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Fifth Avenue Hotel - 1892