"Evacuation day" and Washington's triumphal entry in New York City, Nov. 25th, 1783.
Lithograph by E. P. & L. Restein, 1879.
Image Source: Library of Congress
Digital ID: (digital file from original print) pga 02468 h
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-pga-02468 (digital file from original print) LC-USZC4-737 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-3915 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZCN4-213 (color film copy neg.)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Summary: Print showing George Washington and other military officers riding on horseback along street, spectators line the street, others observe from windows.
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Update:
I found a brochure describing Washington's presence in New York titled: George Washington's New York. It is a thirteen page description, and includes Bowling Green, Fraunces Tavern and St. Paul's Chapel, amongst others.
Here is the link to the brochure.
I got interested in George Washington from Lawrence Auster's posts at View From the Right. One of his most memobrable was George Washington's Birthday, which he wrote on February 22, 2004, with life-like busts of Washington posted in the article. (Here is a link to all the articles posted on VFR on Washington).
That the Father of the United States of America was one of the greatest men who ever lived, who impressed on this country his character, his prudence and far-seeing political wisdom, his extraordinary personal force modulated by his mildness and self-control, his dedication to classical ideals of honor and patriotism combined with his future-oriented grasp of an expanding America, his profoundly felt sense of America’s reliance on the protection and guidance of Divine Providence (and not just Providence, but Jesus Christ, as can be seen in his 1789 proclamation of a national day of thanksgiving), and his deeply experienced vision of the national Union, is something that we are still receiving the benefits of to this day, in myriad and incalculable ways, even in the midst of our current decadence, and even if we ourselves don’t know it and don’t care. (Author: Lawrence Auster, View From the Right)I commented on Washington's Birthday, here at Reclaiming Beauty, in a post titles: Larry Auster and Reclaiming Beauty:
Although Larry Auster didn't directly write about beauty, his work is infused with the desire to bring beauty back into our world.I plan to trace Washington's presence in New York during my forthcoming visit to the city.
One of the most memorable posts he did on art (and beauty) was his reaction to a bust of George Washington. The image of the bust he has posted is huge and takes up the whole screen, so that we, like him, can have as close a look at it as possible.
I got this from various sources, but here is my itinerary:
1. Fraunces Tavern:
54 Pearl St.
[T]he tavern served as George Washington's final residence during the week following the evacuation of the British troops in 1783. It was here that he ceremoniously bade farewell to his officers, marking the final stage of the Revolutionary War.2. St. Paul’s Chapel
[Source: The New York Preservation Archive Project]
209 Broadway, between Fulton and Vesey
On his inaugural day, Washington, along with members of Congress, worshiped at St. Paul’s Chapel. Washington had previously worshiped there in 1776 prior to retreating from the City and continued to do so during his tenure as President in New York. Washington’s marked off and commemorated with an eighteenth-century oil painting of the Great Seal of the United States.3. Bowling Green Park
[Source: Untapped Cities]
Broadway and Whitehall
On July 9, 1776, after the Declaration of Independence was read to Washington's troops at the current site of City Hall, local Sons of Liberty rushed down Broadway to Bowling Green, where they toppled the statue [a gilded lead equestrian statue of King George III].- Related: Site of the Charging Bull Sculpture
[Source: Wikipedia]
4. Federal Hall
26 Wall St.
On April 30, 1789, the inaugural ceremony took place on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City,[7] then the first US Capitol and the first site where the 1st United States Congress met.[Source: Wikipedia]
Federal Hall, built in 1700 as New York's City Hall, later served as the first capitol building of the United States of America under the Constitution, and was the site of George Washington's inauguration as the first President of the United States. It was also where the United States Bill of Rights was introduced in the First Congress. The building was demolished in 1812.- Related: Washington's inaugural address: Transcript
[Source: Wikipedia]
5. Brooklyn Bridge:
The Samuel Osgood House (demolished), also known as the Walter Franklin House, was a mansion at the northeast corner of Pearl and Cherry Streets in Manhattan. It served as the first Presidential Mansion, housing George Washington, his family, and household staff, from April 23, 1789 to February 23, 1790, during New York City's two-year term as the national capital.6. The Alexander Macomb House
[Source: Wikipedia]
The site of 1 Cherry Street (right under the south side of the Brooklyn Bridge) is just north of the east side of Pearl and Dover Streets. On April 30th, 1899, the Mary Washington Colonial Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution placed a plaque commemorating George Washington's first Presidential Mansion, on an anchorage supporting one of the big stone arches on the south side of the Brooklyn Bridge (opened in 1883). The plaque is basically not visible to the public these days, both because of steelwork attached to support the bridge and a metal fence that the Department of Transportation put up after 9-11 for security reasons [Source: NY-BUS.com - "Learn about NYC's past by riding NYC's public buses in the present."].
39 Broadway at Bowling Green
Demands upon the hospitality of the first Presidential Mansion were constantly increasing, and at best space was lacking for the comfortable accommodation of the family and entourage of the President. So, after 10 months' residence in the Franklin House, a larger Executive Mansion was secured. The Macomb House, recently vacated by the French minister, was secured and became known as the Mansion House. This was the finest house in the city and in the most fashionable quarter, located at 39 Broadway, a short distance from Trinity Church. The rear windows commanded an extended view of the Hudson River and the Jersey shore.7. Van Cortland House
The President personally supervised a great part of the moving and the putting up of furniture, which he supplemented by purchasing from the French minister the large mirrors in the drawing room "and other things particularly suited to the rooms in which he found them." A stable was built at the President's personal expense, to accommodate his favorite horses and cream colored coach, which was embellished with his coat of arms and the "Four Seasons."
While living in this house the President received the Key of the Bastille, which afterwards hung in a glass case on the wall, and which is now at Mount Vernon. It was sent by Lafayette with the message: "That the principles of America opened the Bastille is not to be doubted, therefore the Key comes to the right place."
Six months after the removal of the President's family to the Mansion House another move became imminent, due to the transfer of the Capital to Philadelphia. The New York Assembly was building a Presidential Mansion but, with the loss of the Capital, it was, of course, doomed to disuse as such.
The city of Philadelphia, upon securing the temporary Capital, proudly erected a Presidential Mansion there, but it was so large that the President refused to occupy it, and it became the early home of the University of Pennsylvania. It was located on the spot where the post office now stands.
[Source: Marshall Davies Lloyd, author of: Polybius and the Founding Fathers: the Separation of Powers, and partial C.V.]
215 East 71st Street, between 2nd & 3rd Avenues
The Van Cortlandt House Museum, also known as Frederick Van Cortlandt House or Van Cortlandt House, is the oldest building in The Bronx, New York City. The house was built by Frederick Van Cortlandt (1699 – 1749) in 1748 as a mansion for the Van Cortlandt family. It was built in Yonkers, of fieldstone and in the Georgian style. He died before its completion and willed it to his son, James Van Cortlandt (1727 – 1781)...8. The George Washington Bridge
The house was used during the Revolutionary War by Rochambeau, Lafayette, and Washington.[Source: The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York]
Washington Heights, Fort Lee
Groundbreaking for the new bridge began in October 1927, a project of the Port of New York Authority. Its chief engineer was Othmar Ammann, with Cass Gilbert as architect...The bridge was initially named the "Hudson River Bridge." The bridge is near the sites of Fort Washington (in New York) and Fort Lee (in New Jersey), which were fortified positions used by General Washington and his American forces in his unsuccessful attempt to deter the British occupation of New York City in 1776 during the American Revolutionary War. Washington evacuated Manhattan by crossing between the two forts. In 1910 the Washington Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution erected a stone monument to the Battle of Fort Washington. The monument is located about 100 yards (91 m) northeast of the Little Red Lighthouse, up the hill towards the eastern bridge anchorage.
[Source: Wikipedia]
George Washington Bridge, vehicular suspension bridge crossing the Hudson River, U.S., between The Palisades park near Fort Lee, N.J., and Manhattan island, New York City (between 178th and 179th streets). The original structure was built (1927–31) by the Swiss-born engineer Othmar H. Ammann according to the modified designs of architect Cass Gilbert. It was constructed to carry eight lanes of traffic. A lower deck with six more traffic lanes was added in 1958–62, along with a modernistic bus terminal on the Manhattan side (designed by Pier Luigi Nervi).-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
When first built, the main span of 3,500 feet (1,067 m) doubled the record for suspension bridges. Overall, the bridge now extends 4,760 feet (1,450 m) between anchorages, with the decks 115 feet (35 m) and 212 feet (65 m) above mean high water and the lattice-steel towers rising 604 feet (184 m) high above the water. On the New York side the tower stands on land; on the New Jersey side the tower rises out of the river 76 feet (23 m) from shore. The bridge was built and is operated by the Port of New York Authority.
[Source: Encyclopedia Britannica]
Posted By: Kidist P. Asrat
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