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Title: History of and how to see New York and its environs
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Macoy, Robert, 1815-1895
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Publisher: New York : Robert Macoy, Publisher
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ailroads. It is the largest depot in America, ex-tending as far as Forty-fifth Street, being 693 feet in length, 240 AND ITS EXYIROXS.—ILLUSTRATED. 69 feet in width, and having an average hight of 60 feet. The wallsare of brick, with iron trimmings, and the roof, which is ofwrought iron, is supported by semi-circular trusses which span190 feet. On the east side of Fifth Avenue, between Forty-third andForty-fourth Streets, stands the new Jewish Synagogue, TempleImmanuelj which is said to be the finest example of the Moresquestyle of architecture in America. On the same side of the avenue,a few blocks above, may be seen the Windsor Hotel, one of thelargest and best hotels in this country. On the corner of Forty-eighth Street, on the west side of the avenue, looms up the loftyspire of the Collegiate Reformed Church, one of the most beauti-ful houses of worship in the city. The Buckingham Hotel, though much smaller than the ^Yind.sor, rivals it in many respects, and is worthy of notice.
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COITPAEATIVE VIE^VS OX FIFTH AVENUE.—UPPER AND LOWER CRUST. Between Fifty-first and Fifty-second Streets, on the most ele-vated ground on Fifth Avenue, there is in course of erection, alarge cathedral, which will be the most expensive edifice of itskind in the United States. St. Patricks Cathedral was projectedby the late Archbishop Hughes, who laid its corner stone in 1858.For a time its construction was suspended, but upon the accessionof Archbishop, now Cardhial McCloskey, the work was resumed.It is of the Gothic style of architecture, and is expected to be com-pleted in 1877. An altar for the cathedral was ordered by Cardi-nal McCloskey when he was in Rome in 1875. It is to be of thefinest Italian marble, ornamented with jewels and mosaics, and isto cost $250,000. Occupying the entire block, on the east side of Fifth Avenuebetween Seventieth and Seventy-first Streets, stands the LenoxLibrary, founded bv James Lenox. The bequest of Mr. Lenox 70 HISTORY OF AND HOW TO SEE NEW YORK

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