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THE ICONOGRAPHY OF MANHATTAN ISLAND
 

Plate 153-b

[St. George's Chapel]

Photo-etching.                                     4tI x 7-ra-           Date depicted: May 25, 1868.

Date issued: 1875.
Provenance: From Old New York from the Battery to Bloomingdale.
Artist: Eliza Greatorex ("produced by H. Thatcher from the Original Pen-Draw¬
ings of the Artist").
Owner: LN.P.S.
Other copies of the book: N. Y. Public Library; N. Y. Hist. Society, etc.

The original etching, made by Mrs. Greatorex, hangs in the public parlour of the Chel¬
sea Hotel on West 23d Street.

St. George's Chapel in Beekman Street was erected in 1749-52, as a "chapel of Ease to
Trinity Church." It was burned on January 5, 1814, but was immediately rebuilt. In 1846
the original site was abandoned for the present one on the west side of Stuyvesant Square
and i6th Street, and the old edifice was sold to the Church of the Holy Evangelists, under
an agreement with Trinity, the deed being dated July 21, 1851. One condition of the sale
was that the church should he maintained as "St. George's Chapel," or "Old St. George's
Chapel," In i860 the Church of the Holy Evangelists went out of existence, and for a
time thereafter the church was known as the Free Church of St. George's Chapel. In
1868 it was sold to the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Company and demolished (see Chronology).
The view shows the church In course of demolition.
 

Plate 153-c

[Hamilton Grange!

Photo-etching.                                      4l^ x 7                           Date depicted: 1869.

Date issued: 1875.
Provenance: From Old New York from the Battery to Bloomingdale.
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.

Hamilton Grange was built in 1801-2 by Alexander Hamilton, who named his estate!
after his grandfather's seat in Ayrshire, Scotland.   The deed by which Hamilton acquired ^
the property from Jacob SchiefFelin is dated August 2, 1800.   On July 11, 1804, Hamilton
was shot by Aaron Burr in a duel at Weehawken, the site being later marked by a monu-
ment.^—See Addenda.    In 1805 the Grange was  sold at public   auction at the Tontine
Coffee House for ^30,000 to Archibald Gracie.—The Merc. Adv., April 9, 1805,

The mansion-house originally stood on the south side of 143d Street, about sixty feet
west of Convent Avenue. In 1889 it was moved to the east side of Convent Avenue near
141st Street, where it now stands. It is at present used as the rectory of St. Luke's Epis¬
copal Church, which owns the building.

In 1907, the Washington Heights Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolu-
 

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