Identifier: historyofnewyork01loss (find matches)
Title: History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Perine Engraving and Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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nations, wasstanding empty. The managers of the Institute chose it for their fairin 1855. It was on the northern verge of the more refined society,occupying a portion of Reservoir Square, between Fortieth and Forty-second strcrts. The late exhibitions had made the citizens acquaintedwith that remote region, and the fair was successful. In that pal-ace three other fairs were successively held, when, on a bright day inOctober (5th), 1858, fire assailed the building and the rich collectionsof the American Institute, and laid them in ashes in the space of onehour. It was supposed by some that this terrible blow would be fatal to theAmerican Institute. It reeled, but did not fall. Adversity stimulatedincreased activity, and to the surprise of many the Institute held afair the next year in Palace Garden, in Fourteenth Street, on the site ofthe (present) armory of the Twenty-second Regiment. There theInstitute fairs were held for several successive years, and these wereuniformly profitable.
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FIRST DECADE, 1830-1840. 171 For forty years the American Institute had been a wanderer. Ityearned for a home—a more spacious one, and possibly a permanentone. On Third Avenue, between Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth streets,was a large building- which had been erected for a skating rink. Thesepremises the Institute leased in 1S68. Three buildings w ere added tothe rink, when the whole covered forty building lots hot ween Secondand Third avenues. There is ample space fov the exhibitions, whichare kept open several weeks. There is a promenade concert given eachevening during the exhibition, which attracts young people. The office and other rooms of the Institute are in the Cooper Union.The library, established in 1833 by contributions of $5 each from mem-bers of the Institute, contains over eleven thousand volumes. Thepurchases of books have been confined to works on agriculture, chem-istry, and the industrial arts. The Institute is divided into threesections—namely, the Fanners Club,

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