Identifier: millersnewyorkas00durs (find matches)
Title: Miller's New York as it is, or, Stranger's guide-book to the cities of New York, Brooklyn and adjacent places : comprising notices of every object of interest to strangers ; including public buildings, churches, hotels, places of amusement, literary institutions, etc
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913- former owner. NNC
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Publisher: New York : J. Miller
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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et apart to varioususes, it contains a rotunda in the centre, surmountedby a lofty dome, which is supported, in part, by eightCorinthian columns of Italian marble. This rotunda iscapable of containing 3000 persons. Its entire cost,including the ground, was over $1,800,000. The archi-tect was Isaiah Rogers; and it was built on the site ofthe old Exchange, destroyed by the fire of 1835. Theoriginal stockholders lost every penny of their invest-ment, it having been sold to other hands to defray themortgage held by the Barings of London. THE MERCHANTS EXCHANGE Is now held in William street, near Exchange Place.The Merchants Exchange sales-room is in the TrinityBuilding, on Broadway, north of Trinity Church. THE NEW POST-OFFICE, At the lower end of the City Hall Park (junction ofBroadway and Park Row), is a grand and imposinggranite edifice of the Doric style of architecture, and issaid to be entirely fire-proof. It occupies an excellentsite, and shows to good advantage from every side. It
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Custom House. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 43 is, beyond question, the finest post-office building, withpossibly one exception—that at Washington—whichhas been erected in the United States. It is very nearly350 feet in length, about 300 feet in width, find is fivestories high, surmounted with an enormous dome. The stranger will be amply repaid by a visit, andshould particularly note the rapid and systematic man-ner in which the enormous mails—fully 250,000 lettersdaily—are distributed. The upper portion of the building is occupied by theseveral United States District Courts, and also by otherofficials of the Federal Government. THE UNITED STATES TREASURY AND ASSAY OFFICE, On the corner of Wall and Nassau streets, is a splendidbuilding, constructed in the Doric order of Grecianarchitecture. It is built in the most substantial mannerof white marble, something after the model of the Par-thenon at Athens; as a piece of masonry, it is equal toany structure extant, and to judge from appearance

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