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Title: Valentine's manual of old New York
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, Henry Collins, 1862-1961
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Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Valentine's Manual Inc.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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re. We had a good time.Them was the happy days. The Beinhauer Garden Farm Now the Site of the Twin Vanderbilt Houses on Fifth Avenue William S. M. Silber HIS GREAT GRANDSON The group of buildings shown in the annexed engrav-ing represents the homestead of Frederick Beinhauer as itappeared in 1832 at the time of his decease. The entireplot owned by him comprised the present two city blockson the west side of Fifth Avenue extending to SixthAvenue from the north side of 51st Street to the southside of 53rd Street. Mr. Beinhauer was a successfulgarden farmer who was able to create a modest fortunefrom this area of land now forming a very prominent partof one of the most valuable sections of the old City ofNew York. Frederick Beinhauer was born in Marburg, Germany,and arrived in America during the latter part of the 18thcentury. He was practically penniless when he reachedthis country, but he cast around to see what opportunitythe New World afforded him, and finally decided upon the ( 44 )
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OF OLD NEW YORK production of vegetable food products. For several yearshe found employment with the market gardeners of thefertile lands of Kings County during which time he care-fully studied the metropolitan market and, with char-acteristic German thrift, diligently accumulated his sav-ings for bolder flights. Mr. Beinhauer finally decided that Manhattan Islandoffered better prospects for a market as well as greaterrewards for patient industry and enterprise, besides giv-ing more direct access to a larger number of consumers.Shortly after the close of the Revolutionary War a con-siderable tract of unoccupied land formerly belonging tothe Colony and lying generally between the Boston PostRoad on the east and the Bloomingdale Road on the westwas vested in the City of New York, and was in duecourse offered for sale or lease to buyers. This tract wasdesignated on the maps of that period as The New YorkCommon Lands. Mr. Beinhauer secured the lease ofa section of this land and proceeded

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