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tions of the outer walls were incorporated in the new thirteen-storey office edifice (George
B. Post, architect) which now occupies the site.

It should be noted that In this view the building, although correctly shown as to its
general design, Is exaggerated In height, contemporary photographs showing It to have
been much lower in proportion to its length.

The offices or salesrooms of Currier & Ives, the well-known lithographers and print
publishers, will be noticed on the corner of Nassau and Spruce Streets. Although, accord¬
ing to the directories, James M. Ives had been in business as a publisher at this address
smce 1853, the partnership was not listed in the directories until 1862-3; '^ continued until
1901. During these years the firm published many views of New York and of other places,
and many depicting important occurrences. Although generally rather crudely drawn
and coloured, these were often attractive and interesting.

The view evidently depicts the period of the Civil War. The troops seen in the fore¬
ground, wheeling into Park Row from the transverse street which passes through the Park
in front of the City Hall, have not been positively identified, but may very well be a com¬
pany of the 69th Regiment Volunteers, which regiment returned to New York from the war
in June, 1865, and was mustered out of the service on June 30th. The Armory of the
regiment at the period of the view was in the Essex Market, on the north side of Grand
Street, between Ludlow and Essex Streets.
 

Photo-etching
 

Plate 153-a
[Bloomingdale Village and Church]

S/j X 4t^                          Date depicted: 1867.

Date issued: 1875.
Provenance: From Old New York from the Battery to Bloomingdale, by Eliza Greato¬
rex.   Text by Matilda Despard, New York, 1875.   Most of the original etch¬
ings from which the illustrations in this book were reproduced belonged to the
late Mrs. Henry C. Potter, who acquired them from the artist.   An album of
photographs of fifteen of the earliest of these etchings was issued in a small
edition without text in 1869, with the title Relics of Manhattan.    There is a
copy of this album in the author's collection.
Artist: Eliza Greatorex ("produced by H. Thatcher from the Original Pen-Draw¬
ings of the Artist").
Owner: I.N.P.S.
Other copies of the book: N. Y. Public Library; N. Y. Hist. Society, etc.

This view depicts the old Reformed Church at Bloomingdale, two years before its ^
demolition, which was finally made necessary by the alteration and extension of Broadway.
The church stood on the Bloomingdale Road near the present 68th Street, and, when
erected, in 1816, was described as a "neat stone building situated near the five mile stone."
The corner-stone was laid on July 21, 1814, and the church opened to the public on August, ;
4, l8i6.-—See Chronology.   It then had a handsome lawn sloping down to the road, but is j
here shown surrounded by "shanties."    The last service in this church was held in 1869,
and the building was torn down soon afterward.