From a photograph.
 

^. .„.„, ^y/j, by Ptrry Walton.
 

TWIN VANDERBILT HOUSES.
51st and 52nd Streets.
Island Homes in a Flood of Business."
 

From an old print of about 1858.                                                                Collection of S. B. Altmayer.

FIFTH   AVENUE   IN   THE   NEIGHBORHOOD   OF    THE   CATHEDRAL   SHORTLY

AFTER ITS ERECTION.

The two houses in the left foreground were occupied by the school of the Rev. C. H. Gardner;
in the background are the Cathedral, the site of the twin Vanderbilt houses, and St. Thomas*
Church.