Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 54th Street (West)

Fifth Avenue, west side, north from West 54th Street, showing prominently Dr. Hall's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church at the N. W. corner of 55th Street. Organized in 1808, their first church was erected on Cedar Street. The Rev. John Brodhead Romeyn became the first pastor, retaining his connection with the parish until his death in 1825. In common with all the earlier churches, the Cedar Street parish made several removals farther uptown; in 1834 to Duane Street; in 1852 to its first Fifth Avenue church, at the corner of 19th Street, when the corporate name was changed, and again in 1875 to the present location.
To the left is St. Lukes Hospital, occupying the Avenue
frontage from 54th to 55th Street's.
AiT-E . WE0 ~ 379
About 1885
Thru New York Historical Society