View south down Fifth Avenue from intersection with 34th Street. Northwest corner (foreground): residence of Caroline Astor at 350 Fifth Ave. Future site of the Astoria Hotel erected in 1897. Southwest corner (background): Waldorf Hotel; built...
An exterior view of the hotel's ornate edifice on a corner busy with pedestrians and horse drawn carriages. Designed by architect H. J. Herdenberg, the original Waldorf-Astoria was constructed during the last 19th Century. World renown, the...
Two well-dressed women and a little girl crossing 33rd Street below the Waldorf-Astoria. There is a horse drawn carriage and several men also in the street, one possibly a flower vendor.
The back of the postcard gives the history of the Empire State Building site:, "In 1799 a man named Thompson owned a farm at what is now Fifth Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street, New York City. He later sold it and in 1827 the Astor Mansions were...
This photo of Fifth Ave., looking northwest from 31st St., was taken about 1907. Old residential properties on and near northwest corner have been converted to commerce. At right, from 33rd to 34th Sts., (behind the street sign) stands world-famous...
Astor Residence, Waldorf Hotel, Holland House Hotel, Marble Collegiate Church in the distance. The image also features horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians.
Erected by William Waldorf Astor on the site of the former home of his father, Northwest Corner Fifth Avenue and Thirty-third Street, New York. Cost $4,000,000.
Erected by William Waldorf Astor on the site of the former home of his father, Northwest Corner Fifth Avenue and Thirty-third Street, New York. Cost $4,000,000.
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