Union Square - 1850

 

Union Square looking south, 1850. Lithograph by John Bornet published in Views of New York issued by Henry Hoff / New York Public Library.

Text on print: Avenues near Union Park, as it was called, lined with trees. Reservoir on 13th Street, near Fourth Avenue. Grace Church is on Broadway. Four-horse car on Fourth Avenue [on the left].

The fountain was built in 1842. The Church of the Puritans was built in 1846-1847, at 15th Street, and demolished in 1869.

 

NY Union Square

 

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Union Park NY

 

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Manhattan looking south from Union Square.

 

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Map of Union Place dated 1852, showing the Bowery (left) as what is now Forth Avenue (source NYPL).

 

University Place

 

Map of Union Place

 

Bowery

 

Broadway

 

NYC Grace Church

 

(Union Place)

 

Panorama NYC

 

Church of the Puritans

 

Union Square - 1850

 

Grace Church

 

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