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Manhattan: historic and artistic; a six day tour of New York city; (1892)

Ober, Corolyn Faville, Mrs, Alden, Cynthia May Westover, 1862-1931 · New York, Lovell, Coryell & company · leaf 126

An illustration from Manhattan: historic and artistic; a six day tour of New York city;, 1892, leaf 126
ween 71 stand 70thStreets, was erected by James Lenox, at a costof over one million dollars, and endowed byhim with a permanent fund of two hundredand fifty thousand dollars. An example of theFrench classical Renaissance style of archi-tecture this imposing structure is made mostpleasing to the eye… … Io6 MANHA TTAN. massive iron gates. The material used in theconstruction of this building resembles lightgranite, but is in reality Lockport limestone. The library, which occupies the wings, con-tains about thirty thousand volumes, in-cluding: Shakesperiana, Americana, manyfirst editions of the…

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