Identifier: pictureofnewyork00csfr (find matches)
Title: A picture of New York in 1850 : with a short account of places in its vicinity : designed as a guide to citizens and strangers ; with numerous engravings, and a map of the city
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: C.S. Francis & Co Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC Nichols, George Livingston, former owner. NNC Day, Thomas, former owner. NNC Grolier Club. Library, former owner. NNC
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Publisher: New York : The Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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small projection,with flat columns on each side. On the centre of theroof in front there is a tower of stone of about 15 feetsquare, and perhaps 20 feet high, with pinnacles on thefour corners. The present minister of this church is theRev. Dr. Lyell. FRENCH CHURCH—(Episcopal,) FRANKLIN-STREET, CORNER OF CHURCH-STREET. Erected in 1834.This is a rich looking building, of fine hammered whitemarble, measuring 100 feet by 50, and built at a cost of$60,000. It has neither tower nor spire, but on the fronta deep pediment of between 20 and 30 feet in depth, sup.ported by four massive pillars in front, raised on a platformsix steps from the sidewalk, and two others far under thepediment, one on each side of the main entrance. Thefront of the main building is plain, with one large doorand no window. On each side there are three longwindows, square at the top. The whole building, thoughnot ornamented, has about it an air of silent grandeur.The congregation now worshipping in this church, for
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CHURCHES IN NEW-YORK. 125 merly occupied a large stone building standing onPine-street, near Nassau-street, which was erected in j1704, by some French Protestants, who founded their *church upon the principles and model of that in Geneva, jDuring the war of the revolution, the interior of this church (was nearly destroyed by the British soldiery. In 1794, itunderwent a thorough repair; and in 1803, the members,with their minister, joined the Episcopal church, and fromthat time have been known as the church Du Si. Esprit.Like many of the other churches, the business of the mer-chants drove the families into the upper part of the city,and the result was the sale of their property in Pine-street,and the building of a new church. ST. PAULS CHAPEL—(Episcopal,) BROADWAY, BETWEEN FULTON AND VESEY STREETS. Erected in 1766. This is the third Episcopal church erected in the city.It is a venerable looking building, of dark gray stone, witha tower of stone and pointed rteeple of wood on thewest

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