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Title: History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Perine Engraving and Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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ccupied might have been secured at a less price, at the junctionof Broadway and Fifth Avenue. The corner-stone of the new Academy building was laid in the fallof 1862. The edifice was completed and dedicated to the Muse of Artin 1866, when Treasurer Cummings. seeing the institution comfortablyhoused and fairly prosperous, resigned his long-held office and retiredto a pleasant country-seat in Connecticut.* * Thomas S. Curnniings was born on August 2G, 180J:. He was the only son of hisparents. At a very early age he evinced taste and talent for art, and this was fostered byAugustus Earle, the wandering artist, who found a home for a while under the roof ofthe elder Cummings, when the gifted son was about fourteen years of age. The father,however, had determined that his son should be a merchant, and he placed him in acounting-room. There he remained about three years, dutiful, industrious, and an aptlearner of some of the best lessons of commercial life. There he acquired, by experience
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FIRST DECADE, 1S30-1S40. 1S1 The architectural style of the Academy building is called VenetianGothic, its exterior having been copied after a famous palace inVenice. It is built of gray and white marble and bluestone. Theentire cost of the ground and buildings was about $237,000. The National Academy of the Arts of Design is a private association,managed exclusively by artists for the public good. Its means aredevoted entirely to the cultivation of the arts of design. It comprisesprofessional and lay members, the former being the academicians,associate and honorary, and the latter honorary members and fellows.Connoisseurs, amateurs, and all lovers of art may become fellows bythe payment of a subscription of $100. A subscription of $500 consti- and observation, a knowledge of the art of business management which was of essentialservice to him in all his after life. But the genius of young Cummings could not be confined in its aspiration to the realmof trade. His longings to become an

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