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From a photograph.                                                                                  Copyright, 1915, by Perry Walton.

UNION LEAGUE CLUB.
Northeast corner 39th Street and Fifth Avenue, once the site of Dickel's Riding Academy.

was bargaining for the land his wife sat under an apple-tree in a neigh¬
boring orchard. He paid $9,150 for the tract, which was sold ten
years later for $80,000, and for part of which in 1856 the Brick Church
paid $58,000. His villa was of yellowish gray stucco with brownstone
trim, Gothic in style, and had so many towers, oriels and gables,
that when Waddell's brother saw it and was asked what he would
call it, replied, '* Waddell's Caster; here is a mustard pot, there is a
pepper bottle and there is a vinegar cruet." The house stood con¬
siderably above the street level upon grounds which descended by
sloping grass banks to the street. It was elegantly furnished and had
a large conservatory and picture gallery. From a broad marble
hall a winding staircase led to a tower, from which a charming view was
obtained of both the East and Hudson Rivers, the intervening semi-
rural landscape, and the approaching city. Mr. and Mrs. Waddell
were noted for princely hospitality, and among their frequent guests