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 50
t wasunsurpassed by any edifice in the country;indeed it was the only chaste and classic speci-men of architecture which New York possesseduntil the pure Gothic of Trinity and GraceChurches inspired a desire for something bet- MANHA TTAN. 31 ter than the feeble imitations of Greek templesthat… … ^^ *-^- X THE CITY HALL. gress, the desk on which Washington pennedhis first message to Congress, and his inaugu-ral chair. Here the remains of PresidentLincoln were laid in state, while for twenty-four hours a sad procession, which even duringthe night did not diminish in volume, surgedby him. 32…
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