North Side Wall Street, First Presbyterian Church - about 1816
Illustration published in the Valentine's Manual of Old New York, 1923 (copyright 1922) by Henry Collins Brown (1862-1961). Text on print: «North side of Wall Street from Broadway to Nassau, about 1816, showing Howard, Keeler, Drapers, corner of Broadway; the First Presbyterian Church in the center; and the Tavern of John Simmons on the corner of Nassau St., where James Duane, first mayor of New York, was inaugurated (1784).»
The First Presbyterian Church was founded in 1716, as a Presbyterian Meeting, and rebuilt in 1811.
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North Side Wall Street, First Presbyterian Church - about 1816