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Union Square, Broadway to Fourth Ave, 14th to 17th St.; 3.48 acres set apart as park in 1809; scene of reception of Gen. Washington, Evacuation Day, Nov. 25, 1783; Croton Water Celebration, Oct. 14, 1842; Union Defense Mass Meeting, 1861, for a generation the heart of the hotel district, recently developed as a mercantile centre by the erection of huge loft buildings along fourth avenue, on sites of the Everett House, at 17th St.; Hotels Clarendon, Florence, and Belvadere at 18th., St. Ashland at 24th St. and Putnam at 28th St. Subway under Fourth Avenue.
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Hotel Pennsylvania - at Seventh Avenue, 32nd and 33rd Streets, opposite the Pennsylvania Termma. The largest hotel by any standard of measurement, number of rooms, cubic contents, etc. It will contain 2,200 guest rooms, each with private bath. There will be large restaurants, ball rom and convention hall space, roof gardens, etc. It will require from 2,500 to 3,000 employees, and will be virtually a small city in itself. Operated by Hotels Statler Company Inc., the building is fireproofed as it possible to make a modern structure, provided with equipment for forced ventilation, washed and purified air, etc. Quiet is secured by such precautions as double doors between connecting rooms, heavily carpeted hallways, etc. There will be a well-stocked library at the disposal of the guests. Hotel Pennsylvania will be a house of the highest class, as nothing is being left undone to make it worthy in every way of the name it bears (that of the world's greatest railroad); and situated at the gateway of a city which is perhpas the most exciting in the world as to what it demands of a hotel of the highest class.
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Madison Square - showing Fifth Ave. at the right, crossed by Broadway at 23rd St.; here, between Bloomingdale Road (Broadway) and the Boston Post Road (Third Ave.) a great tract was set apart in 1811 for a parade ground, 6.84 acres remain, bounded by Broadway and Madison Ave. and 23rd and 26th St.; this was for a generation the centre of the hotel and theatre district; the Fifthe Avenue Hotel, erected in 1858, for half a century was the most famous hostelry in America; it was torn down in 1908 and the 14-story Fifth Avenue Building was erected on it's site.
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Fifth Avenue Building - Office structure, facing Madison SQ. where Broadway crosses Fifth Ave. diagonally, with 197.5 ft. frontage, extending 259.8 ft. along 23rd St., 264.7 ft. along 24th St., 18 full city lots, over 13 acres of floor space. Built of steel, granite, limestone and brick; 14 stories high, Maynicke & Frank, Architects, Fifth Ave. Building Co., owners. Henry C. Eno, Pres.; Walter E. Maynerd, Vice-Pres, and Gen'l Manager; Henry Lane Eno, Treas. In heart of shopping district, on historic site of Corporal Thompsons's Inn, 1830, Fancolis's Hippodrome, 1853.
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Packard Commercial School, S.E. corner of Lexington Ave. and East 35th St.; founded in 1858 by S.S. Packard; commercial, stenographic and secretarial courses, also higher accounting and auditing; new fireproof building, occupied August 1911.
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Mutual Bank, new banking house, erected 1911; capital and surplus, $700,000; deposits, $7,200,000, assets, $8,000,000; one of the substantial financial institutions of the great retail shopping district. C.A. Sackett, Pres, Hugh N. Kirkland, V. Pres. and Cashier.
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Fuller Building - called "Flat Iron," Broadway, Fifth Ave., and 23rd St., fist great triumph of steel frame construction; built by the George A. Fuller Co.; 300 ft. high; 120,000 sq. ft. floor space on plot of 7,690 sq. ft.; 13,340 sq. ft. under sidewalks.
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