Identifier: oldbuildingsnewy00newy (find matches)
Title: Old buildings of New York City, with some notes regarding their origin and occupants
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Subjects: Historic buildings -- New York (State) New York
Publisher: New York : Brentano's
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e corresponding pew on theother side for JNIr. Stuyvesant and family forever, *•each pew being surmounted by a canopy.f The ne-^ro servants (slaves) sat in the rear of the congre-gation. In a vault under the cha))el the governors body hadteen placed after his death, in 1672, and in 1691 the * By resolution of the Vestry, August 26, 1803.f Removed in 1835. 49 Old liiiildin^^s of X(7c York (it// luxly of the l\iinlisli noNcriior (Sl()u«iliter) was alsopljuid tluri. Ill Imildiiii^- tlu cliiircli Stuyvesaiits remains wereremoxtd and i)hKe(l in a vault beneath the walls of thenew Idificr. The stone whieh may be seen fastened tothe outer wall bears the following inseription: In this\ault lies buried Petrus Stuyvesant, late Captain Gen-eral and (Governor in Chief of Amsterdam in XewNetherlands, now ealled New York, and the DutchA\est India Islands, died A.i). 1071-2, aged 80 years. In July. 1804, the church was draped in mourningfor the deatii of Hamilton, and was so kept for sixweeks. 50
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Second Avenue Fanner Residence of the Late Lewis M. Butherfurd HEWIS M. RUTHERFURD was one of themost noted astronomers that this country hasproduced. As a young man, he began thestudy of the law with Wilham H. Seward, and wasadmitted to the bar in 1837 and became associated withJohn Jay and afterwards with Hamilton Fish. Buthis tastes were entirely in the direction of science, andhe decided to abandon the law and apply his attentionto scientific research. With ample means, he had fullopportunity to devote his life to the pursuit of his favor-ite study, astronomical photograj^hy. He spent severalyears of study in Europe and, on his return, he builtan observatory in New York, the best equipped privateastronomical observatory in the country. He made withhis own hands an equatorial telescope and devised ameans of adapting it for photographic use by means ofa third lens placed outside of the ordinary object glass.He was the first to devise and construct micrometer ap-paratus for measuring

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