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[MAP - GREENWICH VILLAGE] SMITH, W[ILLIA]M A. [?]. Map of Property Belonging to the Orphan Asylum Society in the 9th Ward of the City of New York
. "New York 17th Oct 1872 / I certify this to be a true copy / of the map filed in the register's / office by no. 297 / Wm A [?] Smith / City Surveyor." Manuscript map on paper, hand colored, stencilled text, modern linen backing. 26 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches (68.5 x 33.75 cm). Staining, toning, dust soiling, closed cracks and tears, losses to corners, modern ink annotations to backing.
A survey map showing property lines between Bank Street and West 12th Street (which was called Troy Street until 1846), and between West 4th Street (Asylum Street until it was changed in 1834) and Greenwich Avenue. Factory street no longer exists, but would have been an extension of Waverly Place. The Orphan Asylum Society was the first private orphanage in New York City. It was founded in 1806 by a group of woman including Isabella Graham and Eliza Schyuler Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton's widow. At first it was located in in a small building on Raisin Street that housed only twenty children, but the orphanage soon outgrew the building and moved to the location shown in this map. In 1807, they began construction on a three-story building on Bank street that would house two hundred children. The Society's constitution required that "the Orphans shall be educated, fed and clothed, at the expense of the Society and at the Asylum. They must have religious instruction, moral example, and habits of industry inculcated in their minds." In 1835, presumably when the original survey (of which this map is a true copy) was drawn, the land was sold, and the Orphan Asylum Society moved uptown to a newer, bigger home on 73rd Street and Riverside Drive.
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