ILLUSTRATIONS
 


 

John Jacob Astor.......Frontispiece

From a steel engraving

The Entrance to Astor Library, Lafayette Place    ...       4
Astoria in 1811.........6

Redrawn from an old print

John Jacob Astor's Residence in 88th Street, near the East

River..........6

This is the house in which Washington Irving wrote Astoria
From a print in Valentine's Manual

The Waldorf-Astoria........8

The Astor House.........8

William B. Astor.........10

From a steel engraving

Rev. Henry Barclay, D.D........12

Trinity Church as Enlarged in 1737      .....      18

Reproduced from The Parish of Trinity Church in the City of New York

James W. Beekman........24

Mrs. James Beekman........28

From the painting by L. Kilburn, 1761

The Beekman House, i860.......28

Headquarters of Sir William Howe \u 1776.    Beekman Hill, near First Avenue
From an old lithograph print

Henry Brevoort.........34

From R. Peale's sketch, made in 1823

View of the Brevoort Estate and Vicinity     ....     38

Between 54th and 55th Streets, near First Avenue
From a print in Valentine's Manual, 1866

General James Clinton ....                       ■       .     44
George Clinton.........46

Governor of New York in 1789.    From the painting by Ezra Ames