Coal & Iron Exchange, Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, New York
Engraver James N. Allen American
Not on view
The D&H Canal Company built and managed a canal that transport its coal from Honesdale, Pennsylvania to the Hudson River. Their headquarters on Cortland Street and Church Street in New York was built in 1874-76, an imposing fireproof structure known as the Coal and Iron Exchange. The print appeared as an illustration in Benson John Lossing's "The American Centenary; a history of the progress of the Republic of the United States during the first one hundred years of its existence" (1876).