a cation than a street. Chief among the build ings here are the great banks, and the Sub-Treasury, a Doric building of granite, upon the site of the old City Ball, from the bal cony of which Washington was inaugurated as first President of the United States. In Broad Street, which runs south from the Sub.Treasury, is the new Stock Exchange, costing $2.00000. Opposite the Stock Exchange is the Mills Build ing, erected twenty years ago at a cost of $4,000,.
000, It was the first of the luxurious Of fice buildings in the financial district. On the other side of Ex change Place is the Broad - Exchange, twenty-story granite pile. Trinity C'Irurch, the most interesting of New York's churches, stands up on land granted by the English Govern ment in 1697. The original plot em braced a tract of many acres 1111111i11.4 down to the Hudson River. The first churc ii was com pleted in 1697. the present one in 1846.
It is a Gothic structure of brown stone. In the churchyard are many monuments in mem ory of well-known persons. On Broadway, from Trinity Church to the City Hall, are some of the most imposing of the insurance buildings. That of the Equitable Life Assurance Society occupies a whole block. Ilere also is the build ing of the ...kmerican Surety Company. with a cornice 307 feet above the pavement and a foundation extending 72 feet below the street. On the opposite side of Broadway is the main offiee of the Western Union Telegraph Company. In Cedar Street, a few doors from Broadway. is the Clearing House, maintained by the associated banks of New York. It is a beautiful structure of white marble. In Liberty Street is the pala tial home of the Chamber of Commerce. At the junction of Broadway and Park Row stands the Post Office, a huge and imposing composite stt He ture. of Doric and Renaissance, upon a triangular plot. Opposite the Post Office is Saint Paul's Chapel. where Washington's pew is shown. Across the way is the old Astor Ilouse, a granite hotel which fifty years ago was considered the most luxurious establishment of its kind in the coml. tty. Above the Post Office is the City Hall, in City Hall Park. Near by are the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge. the great buildings of the World, Tribune. and Timcs on the east. and the lofty structures of the Postal Telegraph Build ing and Home Insurance Company on the west. To the south is the Park Row Building, one of the tallest in the country, twenty-five stories high, not counting the towers. The City Ball is the most beautiful of New York's earlier buildings. It was IsTun in 1803 and finished in 1S12 at a cost of $500,000. White marble was used for the front and sides. but brown stone for the back. as it was supposed that the city would not ex tend beyond it. Back of the City Hall is the County Court llonse, a marble building in Corin thian style, and almost opposite, at the corner of Chambers and Centre streets, is the new and pala tial Hall of Records. The Criminal Courts Build ing, a superb structure on Centre Street, is con nected with the Tombs Prison by a covered bridge. The Tombs, a nickname of the city prison, suggested by its original gloomy architecture in Egyptian style, rebuilt in 1595 and much en larged, is now, architecturally, one of the finest of modern prisons.
Broadway, from Chambers :..t.reet to Tenth, is largely given up to wholesale trade, one of the most prominent features along the route. however. being the massive building of the New York. Life Insurance Company. West of Broadway, below ('anal Street, lies the great wholesale dry goods centre of the United States. and farther uptown are the wholesale
dealers in straw goods. Millinery, feathers, and ready-made clothing. Where I:roadway changes its direction at Tenth Street, the character of business ehanges.
llo.re is I:race Church, one of the most attractive ecclesiastical edifices in New York. It is an or nate Gothic structure, brill of white limestone. There are other buildings connected with the church, the whole forming a striking group. In this neighborhood are the Astor Library, long the most important library in the city, the Mercantile Library, and at Fourth Avenue and Eighth Street, Cooper Union (q.v.), a brownstone building erected in 1857. Union Squ:r•e, ()nee the limit of the retail business of the city, awl until 1560 snrronnded by private houses, is now wholly given up to business. At the lower end of Fifth Ave nue, in Washington Square, stands the Washing ton Arelt, erected by popular subscription at a cost of 8125,000, and completed in 1892. It is 70 feet high. On the east side of Washington Square is the large building of New York Uni versity, housing the schools of Law and Pedagogy the Graduate School, and various business establishments. 1 t occupies the site of the cele brated Gothic collegiate structure pulled down in 1594-95. In the district north by east of Union Square lies Gramercy Park, and. at Second Ave nue, Stuyvesant Square. on which stands Saint George's ('hutch. with its lofty spires. At Elev enth Street and Second Avenue is the old home of the Non' York Historical Society. built in 1557. The new building of the society. at Seventy sixth Street and Central Park West. will cost $1,001000, The new Lying-In at See ond Avenue and East Seventeenth Street is one of the handsomest structures of its class in the city. Bellevue llospital. founded in 1526, occu pies two blocks extending from Twenty-sixth to Twenty-eighth street on First Avenue to the East River; the City Morgue is situated in the grounds at the foot of Twenty-sixth Street. Broadway from Ninth Strict to Thirty•tifth Street, Sixth Avenue. and Fourteenth and Twen ty-I hird street.; contain most of the great retail .11011-1 of the metropolis. When the II' calif Bnilding, copied after a Venetian palace. was built at Thirty-fifth Street and Broadway in MIL there were hut few l:u•ge retail stores in the neighborhood. To.day the vicinity of Broad way and 'Thirty-fourth Street bids fair to beemne the centre of retail trade, One of the largest department stores in the country occupies the block on the west side of Broadway between Thirty-fourth and Thirty-tifth streets. Along the line of Broadway, from Twenty-third to Fifty ninth street, are situated a number of important hotels, apartment houses. and the leading theatres of the city. At the angle uf Broadway and Fifthvenue. upon a triangle. 87 by 190 feet. stands a twenty-story wedge-shaped building known as the 'Flatiron,' visible for miles, and presenting a striking architectural contrast Avith the Madison Square Garden. The graceful tower of the latter. copied front the Girolda of Seville, is surmounted by a gilded statue of Diana. On the east side of ladison Square is the handsome otliee building, of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Another beautiful and imposing marble building is the Court I I °use at Twenty-fifth Street and AVenue, used ln• the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court.