William Street from Wall Street - 1837
This illustration above shows, in the distance, the building that housed Delmonico’s Restaurant at 56 Beaver Street. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
William Street is one of the oldest streets in Manhattan. It was represented in the 1660 Castello Plan of New Amsterdam. Originally called King Street, it was renamed after Willem Beekman who arrived in New Amsterdam in 1647 as a fellow passenger of Peter Stuyvesant.
This is a fragment of an engraving, copyrighted 1837, showing the William Street from Wall Street, looking south. The main subject of this illustration is a prospective view of the Merchants' Exchange building, here partially represented on the left, corner of Wall Street. Construction of this new Merchants' Exchange was completed in the early 1840s. Continue below...
William Street from Wall Street - 1837
The same view in April 2021 from Google Street View.
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