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FIFTH    AVENUE
 

From a photograph.
 

Collection of J. Clarence Davies.
 

AUGUST BELMONT'S HOUSE AND ART GALLERY.

Northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 18th Street.

Just before demolition in 1894-95.

Sir Peter Warren, in commemoration of "Singular and Imminent
Services done and perfformed by him Not Only for the Kingdom
of Great Brittain in Generall, but for this City and Colony in par¬
ticular." A valiant character was Sir Peter Warren, who in 1743
was Commodore of the English Squadron off the Port of New
York.
Prominent Worth noting are the names of prominent New Yorkers who, during
Early the fifties, lived on Fifth Avenue between Washington Square and
Residents gigt Street. Among them are Lispenard Stewart, Thomas Eggleson,
Silas Wood, Henry C. de Rham, Thomas F. Woodruff, Francis Cottinet,
David S. Kennedy, James Donaldson, Dr. J. Kearney Rodgers, C. N.
Talbot, N. H. Wolfe, James McBride, Charles M. Parker, L. M.
Hoffman, August Belmont, Benjamin Ay mar, Henry C. Winthrop,
Eugene Schiff, Captain Lorillard Spencer, Moses Taylor, John H. Cos¬
ter, Henry A. Coster, Sidney Mason, Marshall O. Roberts, Robert L.
Cutting, Gordon W. Burnham, Robert C. Townsend, George Opdyke,
Robert L. Stuart, whose magnificent art collection was given to the
Lenox Library, and James Lenox, the founder of the Lenox Library.
The fortunes of these gentlemen, as recorded in "Wealth and Biog¬
raphy of the Wealthy Citizens of New York," averaged between
$100,000 and $300,000. One of the richest men in New York at that
time was James Lenox, who had inherited the then huge fortune of
$3,000,000; another large fortune was that of James McBride, es¬
timated at $700,000.