Old Buildings of New York, With Some Notes Regarding Their Origin and OccupantsAnonymous
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Old Buildings of New York, With Some Notes Regarding Their Origin and Occupants
Anonymous
Historic buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
Dr. Mott was a distinguished surgeon, and one of the best-known
citizens of the small town of sixty or seventy years ago. He previously
lived at the easterly end of Depau Row. For many years Dr. M. resided
in Paris, during the reign of Louis Philippe, whose physician he was.
In 1841[26] a ball was given for the Prince de Joinville at the Depau
Row house, and during the Civil War the Comte de Paris and brothers
were entertained at the Gramercy Square house.
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Gramercy Square
_Rectory of Calvary Parish_
This rectory has been the home of many clergymen celebrated in the
community. One of the early rectors was Dr. Francis Lister Hawks. Born
at Newbern, N. C., in 1798, he was ordained in 1827 and was conspicuous
in the church up to the time of his death in 1866.
In 1844 he became rector of Christ Church, New Orleans, and president
of the University of Louisiana, and in 1849 he became rector of this
parish. Being of Southern birth, he, at the outbreak of the Civil War,
withdrew to the South, but returned after the close of the war. He
published many works on ecclesiastical and other subjects. He declined
the bishopric of Mississippi and also that of Rhode Island.
The Rev. Dr. Arthur Cleveland Coxe was at one time rector. He
afterwards became the Bishop of Western New York. The Rev. Dr. Henry
Yates Satterlee was for many years the well-known rector of this
parish. He is now Bishop of Washington.
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Gramercy Square
_Former Residence of the Late Stanford White_
Mr. White was an eminent architect. It is now the house of the
Princeton Club.
[Illustration]
Gramercy Square
_Former Residence of the Late Cyrus W. Field and the Late David Dudley
Field_
Cyrus W. Field was a business man until about 1854–56, when with Peter
Cooper, Moses Taylor, and others he organized the Atlantic Telegraph
Company. Although the first cable was laid in 1858, it was not until
1866 that the enterprise was entirely successful, after Mr. Field had
crossed the ocean thirty times in the prosecution of the work. He
received the thanks of Congress and many other honors.
His brother, David Dudley Field, was conspicuous at the New York bar
for over fifty years. For forty years of this time he devoted all his
spare moments to the subject of the reform of the law and obtained a
marked success. The new system of civil procedure has been adopted in
many States and substantially followed in Great Britain. In 1873 he
was elected the first president of an association for the reform and
codification of the law of nations formed at Brussels in that year.[27]
The two houses owned by the brothers Field have been united by the
present owner, Henry W. Poor, banker and author of the statistical
work on American railways universally consulted by bankers and
investors throughout the country. The interior has been beautifully
reconstructed.
[Illustration]
Former Residence of the Late Peter Cooper and the Late Abram S. Hewitt
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