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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Rutgers Female College, about 1860: 41st to 42nd Streets on the east side of Fifth Avenue

Colored orphan asylum, from 1842 to 1863: 44th Street and Fifth Avenue

Ye Olde Willow Cottage -- the Willow Tree and Tyson's Market, 1880: Southeast corner of 44th Street and Fifth Avenue, now the site of the American Real Estate Company's building

John B. Cornell and Manton Marble Residences, 1889: Cornell house on the corner and Marble residence adjoining before they became the home of The Fifth Avenue Bank.

Windsor Hotel, Fifth Avenue, 46th to 47th Streets, 1898

Old Catholic Orphan Asylum, about 1852: 51st Street and Fifth Avenue

Easter Sunday parade passing St. Thomas' Episcopal Church: Northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street. Showing the results of a heavy snowstorm: April 2, 1915

54th Street looking west from Fifth Avenue, 1867: The dwelling on the left is No 4. West 54th Street, now the home of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. and on the right is St. Luke's Hospital, now the site of the University Club and the Hotel Gotham

Pond of the New York Skating Club in 1860: at 59th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues

View in Central Park southward from The Arsenal, 64th Street, June 1858: Fifth Avenue is the roadway on the left. No 1. Columbia College, Madison Avenue near 49th Street. No 2. Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum at 54th Street. No 3. St. Luke's Hospital, 54th Street. No 4. Crystal Palace, 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue.

Northeast corner of 81st Street and Fifth Avenue: Showing the small frame houses which stood here prior to the erection of an ultra-luxurious apartment house, the first to be erected in this exclusive section of Fifth Avenue

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118th Street and Fifth Avenue about 1880: Fifth Avenue is the street shown on the left, with Mount Morris Park in the distance

Plan of the City of New York

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