Identifier: millersnewyorkas01mill (find matches)
Title: Miller's New York as it is:
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Miller, James, pub. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, J. Miller
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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effect.The interior of the building fully sustains the impression;for besides the numerous apartments set 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 POST-OFFICE, In Kassau street, between Cedar and Liberty streets,was formerly the Middle Dutch Church. At a time—namely, during the war of the Revolution—when most ^_.7S*-lS^i
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CvSTOM Hqusk, PUBLIC BUILDINGS. . 37 of the clmrches were turned to military use bv theBritish, this one sustained the greatest injuries; whichmore or less, however, fell upon all. In 1790, it receivedsuch repairs as fitted it again for public worship; but itwas afterwards secured by the government and devotedto its present use,—that of a post-office. Its internalarrangements are extensive, and well adapted to theobjects of its present use; the postmasters room is sosituated as to connnand a view of all that is going on inthe building. It was in the old wooden steeple of thisbuilding that Franklin practised his experiments inelectricity. 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

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