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Title: New Amsterdam and its people; studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Innes, J. H. (John H.)
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furnishedby the small and rude taverns which already existed there.It was decided to establish, somewhat after the pattern ofAmsterdam, a Stadts Herbergh, or City Tavern, under theauspices of the West India Company. This building was asubstantial edifice of stone, and was completed during theyear 1641. It was designedly placed in a very conspicuousposition near the shore of the East River, which one of its sidesfaced, and at the time of its erection it formed a most promi-nent landmark, standing entirely apart from the houses of thetown. Back of it lay the road, or Hoogh Straet, from whicha lane or passageway on the east side of the building gaveaccess to the open space between it and the shore. This lane,after the City Tavern had become, in 1654, the Stadt Huys, orTown Hall, was frequently spoken of, in English times, asthe State House Lane, or Hall Lane; it exists at thepresent day as the narrow passageway, known as CoentiesAlley, a curious little dark street between high and almost
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THE STADTS HERBERGH 177 blank walls; it is overhung by rusty fire-escapes, and furnishedwith miniature sidewalks, of about two feet wide. The original ground-plot attached to the City Tavern,appears to have been a strip about fifty feet in width, extend-ing from Hoogh Straet to the East River shore, but in theyear 1651, upon the confiscation of the adjoining land ofCornells Melyn,1 enough of that land appears to have beenadded to the tavern plot to make the whole parcel about onehundred and five feet in front upon the shore, and a few feetless than that distance upon Hoogh Straet. The premises, soenlarged, seem to have been then surrounded by a fence; pre-viously, they had been open and unenclosed. The additionalground was doubtless used for a time for garden purposes.2 Collating carefully the various deeds for portions of thesepremises, made from time to time in the eighteenth century,after the Town House had ceased to be used for public pur-poses.— some of which deeds refer expres

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