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Title: Illustrated New York city and surroundings. A descriptive guide to places of interest
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hobbs, Charles W
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Publisher: New York, C.W. Hobbs & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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he centre is a large fountain. On theBroadway side, within the park, are the statues of Wra. H. Seward andAdmiral Farragut, and in a triangular space between the Park and Broad-way is the Worth monument. Just back of the Fifth Avenue Hotel on 24tli Street, is the pretty littleMadison Square Theatre. Albemarle Hotel is on the corner of 24lh Street.Hoffman House is at the corner of 25th Street. St. James Hotel south-west, and Delmonicos, southeast corner of 26th Street. On the southeastcorner of 27th Street is the Victoria Hotel ; diagonally opposite is the Cole-man House. The Fifth Avenue Theatre is at the northwest corner of 28thStreet. Further along Dockstaders Minstrels. On the east side, above28th Street, is the Sturtevant House, and on the corner of 29th Street is theGilsey House. At southwest cor. of 30th Street is Dalys Theatre. BijouOpera House between 30th and 31st Streets on the west side, and oppositeis Palmers Theatre (late Wallacks). At the southeast corner of 31st Street,
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22 Illustrated Guide to New York City. is the Grand Hotel. The Union Dime Savings Institution building is at32d Street, at junction of Sixth Avenue and Broadway. The StandardTheatre is between 31st and 32d Streets, on the west side. The brownstone church on the corner of 34tli Street is the Broadway Tabernacle.A bronze statue of Wm. E. Dodge is in the triangular space at 35thStreet. Harrigans Park Theatre , northwest corner of 35tli Street. Marl-borough Hotel, corner of 3Gth Street, and Hotel Normandie corner of 37tliStreet. The Casino, at the corner of 39th Street, is a beautiful structuremodelled after a portion of the Alhambra, and is devoted to comic opera.The Garden on the roof affords a delightful resort in summer. On the cor-ner opposite is the Oriental Hotel. The Metropolitan Opera House occupies entire block bounded by Broad-way, Seventh Avenue, 39th and 40tli Streets, It has the largest auditoriumin America. The seating capacity of the house is 6,000. There are 122boxes, eac

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