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MASSIVE AND SPLENDIDLY GOTHIC IS ST. THOMAS'S. THECHURCH DATES FROM 1825. IN 1867 THE PRESENT SITE WAS SECURED, AND THEBROWN-STONE EDIFICE OF THE EARLY SEVENTIES WAS FOR NEARLY TWOGENERATIONS THE ULTRA-FASHIONABLE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE CITY

FIFTH AVENUE

BY

ARTHUR BARTLETT MAURICE

Author of "New York in Fiction," "The New York ofthe Novelists," "Bottled up in Belgium," etc.

DRAWINGS BY
ALLAN G. CRAM

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1918

FOREWORD

In the making of this book the author has drawn from many sources.First, for many suggestions, he is indebted to Mr. Guy Nichols, thelibrarian of the Players Club, whose knowledge of the city is soprofound that his friends occasionally refer to him as "the man whoinvented New York." The author is indebted to the Fifth AvenueAssociation and to the invariable courtesy of those persons in the NewYork Public Library with whom he has come in contact.

Among the books that have been consulted are, first of all, theadmirable monographs, "Fifth Avenue," and "Fifth Avenue Events," issuedby the Fifth Avenue Bank. From these he has drawn freely. Among othervolumes are "The Diary of Philip Hone," Ward McAllister's "Society as IHave Found It," George Cary Eggleston's "Recollections of a VariedLife," Matthew Hale Smith's "Sunshine and Shadow in New York" (1869),Seymour Dunbar's "A History of Travel in America," Miss Henderson's "ALoiterer in New York," William Allen Butler's "A Retrospect of FortyYears," Fremont Rider's "New York City," Francis Gerry Fairfield's "TheClubs of New York," Anna Alice Chapin's "Greenwich Village," TheodoreWolff's "Literary Haunts and Homes," Rupert Hughes's "The Real NewYork," James Grant Wilson's "Thackeray in the United States," Mrs.Burton Harrison's "Recollections, Grave and Gay," Abram C. Dayton's"Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York," and Martha J. Lamb's"History of the City of New York." Also various articles in themagazines and newspapers.

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