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Title: Scenes of modern New York.
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC L.H. Nelson Company
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Publisher: Portland, Me. : L.H. Nelson
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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contains a melodious chime of bells.A rectory, harmonious in design, adjoins the church. ST. PATRICKS CATHKDRAL i ROM AN CATHOLIC) r.tli Avenue. 511th and ..1ststreets, is the most beautiful Church edifice in America, and ranks with famouscathedrals in foreign lands. It is built of white marble. The structure alone costS2,(XJ0,0U0. Length, $$1 feet, breadth, 174 feet. Height, 33(1 feet. TRINITY CHURCH, Broadway, at the head of Wall Street. The present structureis of brown sandstone in (iothic style, and was completed in 1847. The churchsociety is the richest in America, amUmaintains besides the parent church, eightchapes, schools, a dispensary hospital, and a long list of charitable enterprises. TRINITY CHURCH INTERIOR. The bronze doors which adorn the entrance weregiven by William Waldorf Astor in memory of his father. John Jacob Astor. Thealtar and reredos were presented by John Jacob Astor and William Astor in memoryof their father, William Astor. The reredos alone cost £100,000.
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THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS is on the r.th Avenue side of Central Park at 79th Street. The view here shown is of the newer east wingerected at a cost of $1,000,000. The museum contains the finest collection of paintings, statuary and antiques in America. On Sunday, the building is^crowdedwith sightseers. Ten thousand persons frequently pass through the turnstiles in the four hours allotted to the free public. No art museum in the world, pos-sibly excepting the Louvre, has surroundings so harmonious. The Park on one side and the palaces of 5th Avenue on the other are fitting environment for thisunequalled collection of art treasures. THE PAINTINGS IN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM number over 700, among which are included many masterpieces. America is yet young in art but theNew York museum is a splendid step toward excellent achievement in this direction. The original painting entitled The Horse Fair (No. 1) by the Frenchartist, Rosa Bonheur (a replica being in the Louvre), is one o

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