Fifth Avenue (New York, N.Y.); Streets -- New York (State) -- New York
To continue the list of the private residences of the Avenue. Jonathan
Thorne (1028), Louis Gordon Hammersley (1030), Countess Annie Leary
(1032), George C. Smith (1033), Herbert D. Robbins (1034), James B.
Clews (1039), Lloyd Warren (1041), Mrs. James Hedges (1044), R.F.
Hopkins (1045), Michael Dricer (1046), George Leary (1053), William H.
Erhart (1055), James Speyer (1058), Henry Phipps (1063), Abraham Stein
(1068), Dr. James H. Lancashire (1069), Mrs. Herbert T. Parsons (1071),
W.W. Fuller (1072), J.H. Hanan (1073), Benjamin Duke (1076), Malcolm D.
Whitman (1080), McLane Van Ingen (1081), A.M. Huntington (1083).
In the block between Ninetieth and Ninety-first Streets, on land where
once the squatter gloried, is the home of the Iron Master, perhaps of
all the residences in the long line of the Avenue the one most observed
by the stranger within our gates. "So well have the architect and the
landscape gardener co-operated," is the comment of "Fifth Avenue," "that
this mansion and its surroundings have already the dignity and
picturesqueness which age alone can give, although the building is of
comparatively recent date. It is the only house on all Fifth Avenue
which looks as if it might have been transplanted from old England." The
Carnegie house is almost the outpost to the north of "Millionaire's
Row." Two blocks beyond, after the I. Townsend Burden house, and the
Warburg house, and the Willard D. Straight house have been passed, we
are once more in the region of unprepossessing chaos. Between
Ninety-third Street and the end of the Park there is a riot of hideous
signboards, and vacant lots, and lots that though occupied, are
unadorned. The only relief in the unpleasant picture is the Mount Sinai
Hospital at One Hundredth Street. In name at least the Avenue marches
on, its progress being suspended for a space where Mount Morris Park
rises to the summit of the Snag Berg, or Snake Hill, where, in the days
of the Revolution, a Continental battery for a moment commanded the
valley of the Harlem, only to be whisked away, when the enemy came, and
a Hessian battery was installed in its place. But where the stretch of
magnificence breaks, although it continues to be Fifth Avenue in name,
it ceases to be Fifth Avenue in spirit.
CHAPTER XIX
_Mine Host on the Avenue_
Mine Host on the Avenue--A Gentleman of Brussels--Poulard's--Some Old
New York Hotels--High Prices of 1836--The American--The
Metropolitan--Holt's--The Brevoort and the Steamship
Captains--Delmonico's--Famous Menus--The Glory of the Fifth Avenue--The
Logerot--A Bohemian Chop-house--The Great Mince Pie Contest--About
Madison Square--Lost Youth.
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