Note 592 — Chapter III · (continued 2)

Chief among the architectural landmarks of old New York was the City Hall, on Wall Street, built in 1700, and taken down in 1812. (Cf. views in Valentine’s Manual, 1847 and 1866; Mag. of Amer. Hist., ix. 322; and Watson’s Annals of New York, p. 176.) Valentine’s Manual and his Hist. of N. York contain various views of buildings and localities belonging to the early part of the eighteenth century. Particularly in the Manual, see the views of early New York in the volume for 1858, with a view of Fort George and the city from the southwest (1740). (Cf. Appleton’s Journal, viii. p. 353.) The Manual for 1862 contains a view of the battery (p. 503); others of the foot of Wall Street (p. 506), of the great dock (p. 512), and of the East River shore (p. 531),—all of 1746; and of the North River shore in 1740 (p. 549). The volume for 1865 contains a history of Broadway, with historical views; that for 1866 a history of Wall Street, to be compared with the treatment of the same subject by Mrs. Lamb in the Mag. of Amer. Hist.