Tammany Hotel, Nassau Street - about 1854
The Tammany Hall building at 166 Nassau Street, corner of Frankfort Street, facing the Printing House Square, about 1854 (based on the very similar photo below dated 1854). Source: Photographic views of New York City from the collections of the New York Public Library.
The Tammany Society was a fraternal club organized in 1772 around the symbolic figure of Tamanend (c. 1625-c. 1701), a Native American leader of the Lenape people. The corner stone of the Tammany Hall building on Nassau Street was laid on May 13, 1811. Continue below...
Tammany Hall building was sold on April 19, 1867. It was renovated and housed The Sun newspaper. In 1929, a Tammany Hall building was completed in Union Square in neo-Georgian style.
The French's Hotel on the left on Park Row, corner of Frankfort Street, opened in 1849 and the 7-story building was demolished in 1888. The adjoining building of Tammany Hall housed the L.S. Lawrence & Co. The 162 Nassau Street housed the Pewter Mug in the ground floor, the Sunday Times and the Day Book. On the extreme right, a small part of the old Tribune Building.
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Tammany Hotel, Nassau Street - about 1854
