Identifier: millersnewyorkas00durs (find matches)
Title: Miller's New York as it is, or, Stranger's guide-book to the cities of New York, Brooklyn and adjacent places : comprising notices of every object of interest to strangers ; including public buildings, churches, hotels, places of amusement, literary institutions, etc
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913- former owner. NNC
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Publisher: New York : J. Miller
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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width, 54 feet. Theinside walls are of Caen stone; the windows are otrichly stained glass, and the ceiling painted blue, withgilt ornaments. The floors are tiled ; and the seats aremovable benches, as in the cathedrals of the Continent. GBACE CHURCH (Episcopal). This superb edifice, the most, ornate ofthe ecclesiastical buildings of New York, is located inBroadway, near Tenth street, and commands a fineview of the great avenue of the city, north and south.The lofty spiral and richly decorated steeple is an objectof universal admiration. There is one large and twoless sized doors in front. Over the main entrance is acircular window of stained glass, and two tall, oblongwindows in each side of the upper section of the tower.Within is a grand array of pillars, carved work, andupwards of forty windows of stained glass, each givingdifferent hues of vision. There is a little too much oftheatrical glitter in the interior, to comport with thechastened solemnities of religious worship. It was
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First Presbyterian Church, 5th Avenue. CITY OF NEW YORK. 85 built in 1845. Mr. Renwick was the aichitect. Thecost of the building was $145,000. The Rev. Dr. Pot-ter is the present rector. THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, Corner of Broome and Elizabeth streets, was erectedin 1841. It measures 99 by 75 feet, and 70 in height,is of the Gothic order, built of rough stone, with thelintels, cornices, and battlements of brown sandstone.It was constructed during the pastorate of the late Dr.Spencer H. Cone. CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (Episcopal), corner of Madison Avenue and 42d street,was erected in 1874. It is constructed of importedbrick of various colors in mosaic decoration, and ofsandstone of three different tints, comprising the NewBrunswick, the Ohio, and the Oswego stones. A towerwith two belfries—the upper one open for the chimes—stands on the southeastern end of the front. Thistower is 34 feet wide and 30 feet deep, and measures190 feet to the steeple. , The style is the ContinentalGo

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