772          THE ICONOGRAPHY OF MANHATTAN ISLAND

Plate 152-a

[Wall Street]
Photograph.                                                                                 Date depicted: 1864.

Owner: N. Y. Hist. Society.

The date 1864, which appears in manuscript on the photograph, seems to be confirmed
by information obtained from the directories regarding the various occupants of the build¬
ings whose names appear on the signs. For instance, John Simpkins & Co., whose sign
may be seen over the Leather Manufacturers' Bank, at 29 Wall Street, were at No. 3 Han¬
over Square in 1863, and up to May i, 1864, whereas in the directory for the year ending
May I, 1865, their address Is given as 29 Wall Street. The date of the photograph, there¬
fore, cannot he earlier than 1864; nor can it be later than May i, 1867, when A. M. Lyon,
here shown at No. 23 Wall Street, had moved to 65 Wall Street, and Seyton & Waln-
wright, bankers, whose sign appears in the original at the extreme left, on the Assay Office,
had moved to 37 Wall Street.

The building with the colonnade (at the left of the view), on the south-east corner of
William Street, is the Merchants' Exchange, erected in 1836-41. In 1863 this building
was converted for the use of the Custom House, and in 1907 was remodelled by Messrs.
McKim, Meade & White for the National City Bank, and four storeys were added.

With the exception of the Merchants' Exchange, none of the buildings shown is now
(1917) in existence.

This view, which was apparently taken from the steps of the Sub-Treasury, presents
an excellent illustration of the types of commercial architecture prevalent at the time.
 

Plate 152-b
Printing-House Square
Lithograph.                                       25^ x 17^^                   Date depicted: 1864-5 ?

Lithographers: Endicott & Co.                                             Date issued: 1864-5?

Publishers: Baker & Godwin.
Owner: Robert Goelet, Esq.
Other copies: N. Y. Hist. Society, etc.

Only known state. The date is determined, approximately, by the following facts:
The Albion first appears at 39 Park Row (where it is shown in the view) in the directory
for 1864-5. Prior to this year it was at No. 16 Beekman Street. The Army 13 Navy
Journal, too, first appears at the address here shown in the directory for 1864-5, in which
same year all the other business houses whose names appear are found at the addresses in¬
dicated in the print, except only The Day Book, which seems already to have left its ad¬
dress at 162 Nassau Street. Munn & Co., Pubhshers, are found at 37 Park Row In 1864-6,
but do not appear In the directory as "publishers and patent solicitors" until 1866-7.

The New York Times Building was erected in 1857-8. Actual work was started on
May I, 1857, and the Times took possession of the completed building just a year later,
on May i, 1858. (See The N. Y. Times, Jubilee Supplement, September 18, 1901.) The
building occupies the site of the old Brick Presbyterian Church, a view of which is given on
Plate 72-a.   It was practically demolished In 1888-9, although the foundations and por-