Ferry House, New York, Corner of Broad and Garden Streets
Published by Risso & Browne American
Not on view
This lithograph of the Ferry House on Broad Street was made when the building was about to be demolished. The image is similar to, but slightly larger than one used to illustrated John Fanning Watson's Historic Tales of Olden Time (1832), which notes how few Dutch buildings remained and bemoaned, "The passion for modish change and novelty [that] is leveling all the remains of antiquity." Dutch architecture was characterized by stepped gables. When the Ferry House was built it stood adjacent to the East River, but by 1832 it was several streets inland, the bank having been extended through landfill.
