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The new cathedral, Fifth avenue, New York – Antique Print

The new cathedral, Fifth avenue, New York, [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print
The new cathedral, Fifth avenue, New York, [no date recorded on shelflist card]. Historic print from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic print captures The new cathedral, Fifth avenue, New York in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The new cathedral, Fifth avenue, New York

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Set on Fifth Avenue at the edge of the city's growing residential district, this view shows the new St. Patrick's Cathedral, which replaced the older Catholic cathedral on Mott Street as the seat of the diocese. Designed by James Renwick Jr. in the Gothic Revival style, the marble church was built over the 1860s and 1870s and dedicated in 1879, its spires rising above a stretch of avenue that was filling with mansions. The record gives no date for the print, so its exact moment is uncertain, but it captures the cathedral in the years when it was a new landmark on the avenue.

Created / published[no date recorded on shelflist card]
Medium1 print.
NotesJ2719 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Gilman, G.F.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,140 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-109218

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