Wall Street Ferry - 1855
The old Wall Street Ferry House (center) at the Foot of Wall Street, New York City. Pen and ink on cream wove paper signed by Alfred Waud (1828-1891), a British-born artist, who emigrated to New York in 1850. East River and Brooklyn are in the background. Source: Boston Rare Maps. Continue below...
The Wall Street Ferry opened in May 1853, with three boats and ferry houses on both sides: Manhattan and Brooklyn at Montague Street. The Wall Street ferry franchise was granted by the city to Jacob Sharp & Co. on June 16, 1852. By 1873, the Union Ferry Company, originally organized in 1839, controlled the Fulton, Wall Street, Hamilton and South Ferries. The frontage of the ferry house was enlarged about the 1860s or 1870s. The building gained a new design and side towers around 1880. The Wall Street Ferry closed on July 28, 1912.
The Tontine Building, on the left, on the northwest corner of Water Street, replaced the Tontine Coffee House built in 1792-1793 and demolished in the spring 1855.
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Wall Street Ferry - 1855
