Worth Monument and Broadway

Original title: Worth's Monument Madison Square, originally stereograph "American Scenery" New York City, about the early 1860s. Published by E. & H.T. Anthony. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

View of Worth Monument, looking south from West 25th Street, to the junction of Broadway and Fifth Avenue, where Flatiron Building was constructed later. Worth Monument, dedicated in 1857, is a memorial and burial site of General William Jenkins Worth (1794-1849). It is one of the two New York monuments that also serves as a mausoleum, the other is Grant’s Tomb. Fifth Avenue Hotel, in the center, opened in 1859. The six-story Albemarle Hotel, on the corner of West 24th Street (right), was built in 1860.

The year depicted is between 1860 and 1864, when some trees planted in the Worth Square were seen in another photo, showing Hoffman House under construction in 1864 (see below).