| Show PART OF BUILDING STANDING Famous Colonnade Colonnade Row in New York Erected in 1838 Has Not En En- Disappeared On the menu card of ot a restaurant in New ew York this Is printed Within With in these historic walls were sheltered DIcKens Br Bryant ant Washington Irving Ir a President of the tile United States John JohnT T Tyler ler un and II ninny many other distinguished patrons The statement is not ex ex- ex I Part fart of or Colonnade row a beautiful structure erected nearly n a century ago 0 still sUll stands and Joseph Contes Conte's restaurant occupies the greater part of ot it Colonnade row and row row and the building h occupied oc oc- occupied for years lars h by th the Authors Author's League of America at Seventeenth Se I and 11 all nil that street Irving Jr place are remain of Washington Wa ln Ir Irvings Irving's 8 residence residence resi resi- I dence in Manhattan for fOI lon long o ago o passed th the hou helU house e on tin Willlam W Wll nil lalU a in street j I i where he wan wan- was horn bom and the house I Inear near the the na where he lived im hu immediately mediately return In 1832 from I seventeen se n years jears of wandering in Eu Eu- rope Colonnade row rote originally known as asLa asLa asLa La Grange e terrace was built h In 1838 t The buildings earned their sobriquet t ton on account a count of ot the facade pillars ardil- ardil I most attractive that adorn I the str structures Paulding Halleck COQ Cooper r and other writers of the period frequented th the place Poe roe was too poor to he be In the then fn fashionable neighborhood John JohnT T Tyler ler lived at Lafayette ette street t In Inthe Inthe inthe the row rott rOand and events e attending his wedding took place there New thele New York Sun t |
