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From a photograph.                                                                                     Collection of Amos F. Eno.

ENGRAVED BUSINESS   CARD OF THE MADISON COTTAGE, ANNOUNCING THE

TIME OF THE DEPARTURE OF STAGES.

house.    On the northwest corner of  18th Street and Fifth Avenue,
opposite the former home of Gordon W. Burnham, in later years stood
Chickering Hall, famous in its day as a musical and social centre.
Earliest     As the residences drew the clubs to Fifth Avenue, so even earlier
Fifth they attracted the churches.    The Church of the Ascension, at 10th
Avenue Street, and the First Presbyterian Church, at 11th Street, have been
Churches mentioned.    The South Dutch Reformed Church was built in 1850
at the southwest corner of 21st Street, and the Fifth Avenue Presby¬
terian Church was built at the corner of 19th Street and Fifth Avenue
in 1853.    At the northwest corner of 29th Street stands the Marble