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Croton Cottage: Southeast corner of 40th Street and Fifth Avenue

John G. Wendel House: Northwest corner of 39th Street and Fifth Avenue

Union League Club: Northeast corner of 39th Street and Fifth Avenue. Once the site of Dickel's Riding Academy

Brick Presbyterian Church: 37th Street and Fifth Avenue. Showing the remarkable transformation of the Waddell site since 1845

Coventry Waddell mansion: northwest corner of 37th Street and Fifth Avenue. Now the site of the Brick Presbyterian Church.

34th Street and Fifth Avenue today: Showing the Waldorf-Astoria and the Columbia Trust Building on the site of the Townsend and Stewart mansions

Northwest Corner of 34th Street and Fifth Avenue as it was: Showing the Dr. Samuel P. Townsend mansion (1861) on the left and the A.T. Stewart mansion (1876) on the right.

Fifth Avenue and 33rd Street: Showing Grant's funeral procession, August 8, 1885. On the right-hand side are the residences of John Jacob and Willam B. Astor, now the site of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel

Ceremonies of Dedication of the Worth Monument November 25, 1857: The houses in the background are typical of the buildings which then surrounded Madison Square

House of Refuge in 1832: The remodeled United States Arsenal building, which stood on a site now part of Madison Square

Madison Square in the early [18]60s

Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street about 1880: Showing the Fifth Avenue Hotel on the left, the old horse-car lines and the Fifth Avenue stages

Franconi's Hippodrome: 23rd Street and Fifth Avenue in 1853

Engraved business card from the Madison Cottage, announcing the time of the departure of stages

Union Club in 1855: Northwest corner of 21st Street and Fifth Avenue

August Belmont's House and Art Gallery: Northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 18th Street. Just before demolition in 1894-95

Map of the farms: Prepared for the City in 1819-20 by John Randel, Jr. Showing the farms superimposed upon the Commissioners Map of 1811, the 23rd Street part of the Parade Ground, Bloomingdale Road, and the Eastern Post-Road

Spingler Farmhouse: Shown on the Damage Map of 14th Street (1828) as standing about in centre of street. Near its site now stands the old Van Beuren house.

Earliest churches of Fifth Avenue: On the left the Church of the Ascension northwest corner of 10th Street. On the right the First Presbyterian Church northwest corner of 11th Street.

Residence of Charles de Rham, 24 Fifth Avenue: Formerly the home of Henry Brevoort, Jr. One of the most typical early Fifth Avenue homes

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