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Show tOiL FAMOUS OLD TAVERN'S STILL ! LANDMARKS IN T MC CITY OF NEW YORK 'f j TV; !," .''7. cr !i. : t .. ,'..:l .-tor..t tl. 1'.:-. 'j.;1' . ''. ! :i ...-.( 1. "!..,' , ,1 r. -. "si t'T ' -.1 I- . II. .11 ho.- i .s' ! I rlt.s-- In II-. ir u-I). :i :.-, ., -i I twit he f.-1'.-.l ni-n.-i tl.c nip , ..- It 1.1 lienor noot t...t In. s,.:, to' the I Itiijiir--. or I'mlt-iT i-liui-cli l.o-iri. or I ll.T .irl.-cl, nl nlr'it Inning I . -illy .Inys (,f h" DiiK-h "Hirei'tonrs On. nil" i.f t ! i l"w In. dill Con.li.iry In tho city of N.-.v Atn-t'T.I'i Atn-t'T.I'i ill. liny rl. inrn tr.iv.-l.ri wore ent.itiin.-d by li... (IHrn-i. and tie grnitoin ln - llnl.lv i.f Hi.. ,.,. rin.r . extendi il to nil vl.-liors i.f il.-rno. In time, however, this iuty nf iiviitn ntortiilnnont grow hi li.lirl..n) that pnlillc l:iui wns erected lir (.it. Wtholm Kloft nt the company's ez- II:.' l.T ... 1 !..,;' ; N. M J:...- il.. i!..i:nii ; - "f N. -.v V.-i'. I .- .! it i I- I IH.-V 1 V ' 1 IMS 'w ..1 11 M j ' i-f ! v I-.- I T . v until 17'", i '!. It 1' ' t.... l. I .... I ii r, I will V .'in ..v v ,ir . m nvi, ? ' Thi fitv lt"t"1" !: f.tv A: , .. "Tro I'iov-It I'iov-It o Am ; "IT-k-i's (' -ff' I mi..." "e. It l ..-I! I' -it .to tv rncr-rlnnts rncr-rlnnts of Now York : -.i.l the Urn-tii- it. ii lo i i itnTlun a-i ti .-i t in op p.lRlll.ill t-i 111" MlTl.p Tll'l. 17'.".. Til" ritr hot,. I m n p'-tin four-story lmll.. Ine Willi Its log F n:ir.i windows Ptr'-tr' Ir.K In Intilt .'v.. n .1... s ni mis the fn.nl. Il i.. . .1 f..r Its ropti-tii'ion ropti-tii'ion i.i.t on iii-v ii. -lin. . f .1. . ..nl-tlon ..nl-tlon of cl-lwr rli--l .r or Inl-rlor. lint on Hi.' tu.'i:il. wl-.lcli In tint linl.-lry ro-nrl.n! tbo Miriosl i(ilnt of pTf.-r-tlnti 111 colntiliil .ln.s M.'.itH anil fish wir uprvril In ov.'ry ntylo and In MADISON COTTAGE 2 3St jLNQ &AOAAWA.Y A.VOL& ROAD tlOUJE I iv . . h 1 !. t i Inn. a.ftatisl I I: M I il In l'.i..l.iyrt. TI f ' .. if , ' I !--- i. in , ;is two great n ii.. j .ini: Hi" v. r.i-iil.-i. was o" mi, ..-, lv t!, I ir -.aim nflrr 11"" An- i . ti nm-t li.-ii al..ii..!imd Drok ln. T ' .' . -1 ti . -i " i t t Mi i..)i camp ' lo. .it.-i ;u r..-!ii.:.i ('..rnora. on the fur n of I'.i.- t I i : - iTm. In tlie i;,i:-. ii.ivi of ilia nineteenth c.vliiry tl o nrloia, i In. anil writ"" .mi., wont in r.-'oit to tlm Rtiuk j . .ire i. v.iii, nt the corner of Nm-Mil Nm-Mil anil l nllon ntreota. Tills was low. 'l : r i hlonnl Imil ling f tra-r.ilor.il tra-r.ilor.il hr'rl.1. wuli iloiiTior window" In fill riu. fa. The proprietor 'I lion i-i ll.i.ii:l.lim..n, hliiuolf an actor of loi.,l repute. M'-rrl in Ih ronrr. i-.iteil In the Tontine Ton-tine cofiee hon-o. on tlie northwest cirner of Wall and Water lre". This bulMIng wan eroet.-d In 1790 by tho Tontine society, an organlratlon T1IS TAMOVJ MUCKJOXN TAVZRJ ON EAST TH STADT3 HCMiEIXi-LATr.n. TUB aTAOT!WJ. rH3TH0TC OAT ISAMHATTAJ JSLAtJO BVJLT Uf l4i yenae. This waa altiinted on Pearl treet and Coentlea Blip, facing the East river. Tue building waa of rough hewn stone, four storlos and attlo, with the blub pitched roof common to all Dutch bulldlnga of thnt period. The gable ends of the roof were ar-ranre'l ar-ranre'l In steps, as are many of tlie old French buildings which still remain re-main In tho I'rovlnco of Quebec. This BUidts IlerhiTKh or City Inn was completed In UK 2 and was used for public servico till lOf.4, when It boramo the ritudl Iluys or City Hail, and for almost fifty years continued to bo tho meeting plnce for the coitu-11 coitu-11 of iHirgorianters and schepens. In it wan the courtroom nnd the Jul!, and i In front a enfu and whipping post In 1609 It waa sold for 920 shillings and taken to plecea. Opposite Howling flreen was the tavern of Martin Krlegor or Klng'a Arms," as It was called later. The garden of this tavern was a favorite place of resort for the Knickerbocker eltltena, who In Krleger's dsy rested their bodies on the benches and solemnly sol-emnly smoked while thoy wntched the sua set behind the trees. In Its latter lat-ter days It was called tlie "Atlantic Garden," and continued to be a favorite fav-orite placo of resort for entertainment and recreation. At 112 William street stood Oolilen Hill Inn. built of Holland brick, one of tlie oldest taverns In Manhattun. It waa used as a meeting place by the Liberty Keys." and lust bai-k of the Inn, In an open field, occurred the first fight with the IlrltlHh reitulars In tho war of tho Involution, Jan. IS. 1771). Thla open a)-irml.-li of the war waa called the Initio of Uolden Hill, and Is commemorated by a tablet on a building nt tho corner of John and Wllllnm streots. ATA D TZ.JNu J 7JiVrRf7-tfJlV3Air jlND SPJWCE STREET,-!. HOME or TAMMANY HAIL I '90 101 great abundance. Game waa much more plentiful than It la now. The marshes supplied wild fowl turkeys, ducks and gees.: and the woods, pigeons, pig-eons, partridge, quuil, squirrels, rail-blta. rail-blta. hares and deer, lint for Its wine cellar the City tiotel was famous, and when, after nearly a century of existence, exist-ence, the old hotel waa discontinued the remaining stock of Maderla, sherry sher-ry and port waa eagerly bought up at fnlinlmia prices by connoisseurs. Wbero now stands the Thalia theater, thea-ter, on the llowery below Canal street, waa tho famous Hull's Head tavern, built about 1 750. Thla was an Inn much frequented by entile trailers, an It was close to the cattle markets and slaughter honsea. Here Oo. Washington Wash-ington ond til stuff roiled after tho llrltlsh troops had marched out on Kvacimtl ii. dav. On the site of the tavern ' s built the Tlowery tneater, which v .iii burned rown four times, and each ti.ua rel.u"t. Rlnco 1H79 It has been cnlled the Thalia theater. I lore the elder Month and 1 ester Wnl-lack Wnl-lack gained their grentest fnme. Famous also, In Revolutionary hls- of 20 members, holding equal ahsres. According to tho artlclos of Incorporation Incorpora-tion It w.is to be used and kept as a coffee house, and for no other use and purposo whatsoever until the number of corporators should bo by death reduced re-duced to aeven, at which period tlie property wns to bo divided ainoni tho survivors. Thin original agreement agree-ment wns not adhered to, however, for tho building wns afterward altered nnd loused for coniuiorclal purposes and the rents illviile.l among tl.i) survivors. sur-vivors. This coiToe house became very populnr In the curly ilnya of the InM century, and In Its ill- semination of polltlrnl lilens wns a counterpart of the Fifth Avenue hotel or tho Hoffman bouse of to dny. On the rreser.t tn nf Ih Tribune building was Mnrtllng's tavern, the) home of Tammany hall from 1711 until the erection of Its pormsnoat home In IBM. In tha village of New Dorp, B. I.. Is one of the oldest tnvonu yet remaining remain-ing within the llmlta of Greater New York. It Is the old niack llorss tiv-crn, tiv-crn, built about IfiMS. The prtswt proprietor Is Patrick Curry, vtio showa with prlile the old bwrVswsnd timbers of the original building aud the hanging wooden algn on whkh the "black horse" Is now barely dig. cernlhle. The sign Is full of bullet marks, showing that It was a favorlta tniget more than a century aro About fifteen years ai:o this old sign was tnken down and stored away, for tho heavy Iron rings by which It hung were completely worn llironitb by the swinging backward and forward for ovor 200 years. New York Tlmea. |