File:Appletons' illustrated hand-book of American travel. A full and reliable guide to the United States and the British provinces. With careful maps of all parts of the country, and pictures of famous (14755766296).jpg

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Title: Appletons' illustrated hand-book of American travel. A full and reliable guide ... to ... the United States and the British provinces. With careful maps of all parts of the country, and pictures of famous places and scenes, from original drawings by the author and other artists
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: T. Addison Richards
Subjects: United States--Guidebooks Canada--Guidebooks
Publisher: D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Thoreau Society Collections at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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S. Storrs). Church of the Savior, Pierpont street, cor. of Monroe, First Unitarian Congre-gational (Rev. F. A. Farley). Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights,Epis. (Dr. Vinton). Christ Church, Clinton street. Plymouth Church, Orange street(Rev. Henry Ward Beecher). First Reformed Dutch Church, Jero-leman street (Dr. Dwight). First Presbyterian Church, Henry,near Clark street. Dutch Reformed Church, Pierpont st.(Dr. Bethune). St. Anns Church, Washington, nearSands street (Dr. Cutter). Second Presbyterian Church, Fultonstreet, cor. of Clinton (Dr. Spencer). Hotels.—Among the numerous hotelsof Brooklyn we may particularly men-tion the Mansion House, on Hicks st.,Brooklyn Heights; the Globe Hotel, 244Fulton street. The City Hall (Court and Fultonstreets), is one mile distant from theferry. It is a handsome building ofwhite marble, from the Westchesterquarries. Its length is 162 feet, and itsheight to the top of the cupola is 153feet. Cost, $2,000,000. The Post Office is opposite the CityHall.
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NEW YORK. 119 Brooklyn—Hudson River. The Brooklyn Athenaeum, corner ofAtlantic and Clinton streets, in SouthBrooklyn, is a fine edifice of brick, withbrown stone facings. It has an admira-ble library, reading-rooms, and a spa-cious lecture or concert hall, which willscat 2,000 persons. The Lyceum, containing the CityLibrary and a good lecture-room, is atthe corner of Washington and Concordstreets. Brooklyn, which now comprehendsalso the city of Williamsburg, is in pop-ulation (which is no less than 200,000)the second city in the State of NewYork, though its close vicinage to themetropolis absorbs it, and destroys itsdistinctive importance. A great por-tion of its residents do business in NewYork, and live in Brooklyn only for theconvenience and comfort of purer air,more quiet, and less cost. The city is in many parts elegantlybuilt, and the bold position on theHeights, directly looking down upon theriver and the bay, is a charming sitefor a summer abode. Some of the ave-nues of Broo

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