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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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Cran-berry and Fulton streets ; it is a plain brick building, with-out any extraordinary architectural Leauly. The King^s County Jail or Prison,^ is situated inRaymond-street, at the foot of Fort Greene ; it is a dark,heavy-looking, castellated gothic edifice, in front built ofred sandstone, with gothic windows at each sidp, and alarge yard at the back ; the site where it is located is not avery favourable one for the display of its architecturalfront; had it been erected on the summit of Fc t Greene, itwould have had a more commanding appearance, and havebeen a much more healthy location for the prisoners. CHURCHIi:^ I!V BROOKIiTIV. There are nearly forty church buildings in Brooklyn,and some of them elegant structures. Our limits allow usto describe only c. few of them. CHURCH OF THE SAVIOUR, (first unitarian CONORFGATIONAL.) Pierreponl-street^ corner of Monroe Place.This church is built in the perpendicular gothic style, ofred sandstone: the walls, which are rubble^ from the quar-
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UNITARIAN CHURCH,Brooklyn. CHURCHES IN EROOKLTX. 169 ries at Nyack, N. J., and the ornamental portions, whichare finely hammered, from tliose of Connecticut. The en-tire length of the building, exclusive of the front towers,which project eight feet, is eighty feet; and its width, ex-clusive of the buttresses on the corners, which project fourfeet, is sixty-five feet. The front central towers are aboutsixteen feet at the base, and rise one hundred and eighteenfeet, being terminated by pinnacles fully enriched. Thecorner towers rise sixty-five feet, terminated like the others.The walls are crowned by a battlement of hammeredstone. The doors are deeply recessed ; the central oneopening fourteen feet high and ten feet wide, being recessedfour feet six inches. Above this door are shields of ham-mered stone on the wall, bearing the name of the churchand the date of its erection. Over these is the front win-dow, twelve feet wide and twenty-eight feet high; andwindows of less size, but of lik

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