New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-08-05

IatncT 70 supply lht Wdhl VI hhoit ANf~N"s 'NN'"o
records. we lind to have been as follows;
IN loco Pop ....... f3O2lIn lsl0 Pop---..-- 963l3
1870 . ........ o,63sl o.. lao .-.----l&37 100
1856 o.. 49, 1854 1875 loo 0e6
p. 1870 .. --...--.33l3ll. - 1880 1900 SVS9Ss
. l-00 90 ....... .6O4o9l.. lc35 ..-..--.3l3VOO
The Census of lei5 showed the population TO be
600 By these statistics one may calculate from
the previous data the number of buildings in given
year. and follow up with some degree Of uniformity
the progress of building The growth OF New-fork is
seen to have been very irregular in its Progression
The two principal impulses it has received were, IN
doubleday the Peace after the Revolution and the open
ing Of the Erie Canal As its progress has been mp in
respect to numbers figures has it been up neces
ssrly in respect TO the direction Of its buildings Wall
., was so called from wall which extended along its
rte inclosing the northern border Of the town Now
0ra is all the way for 81 miles norhward from one
de of the island to the other II has Travelled over the
collect Ia name derived apparently from its synony
!mous name Koch meaning fresh water y IN Centre
s and environs and then the Lispensrd meadows near
l.he intersection of by springst filling them
Iup graded hills and has arrived at its momentary
hopping place near Thirty fith-s, We make ac-
count of the scattering buildings beyond and extend
ns to One Hundred and Fiftyhfthst @. miles from
Iwsnst) Yet has it extended lsteray. Greenwich
l y the former boundaries Of the water Even where
Isl John's.park on HudsOn-st is. there sandy
beach In lsl5, st Johns Church was in the suburbs
III the town OF Summer Sunday the truant ears Of
he dcnizens who had repaired thither might be found
listening as much to the cacklng Of the geese there
bout as to the more sober sounds of the sermon In
hsl9, the first house had appeared on Laightst. AT
that time there were no streets laid out north from
"a nrao dttsay fct
shove Canslst was confronted by than 200 or
800 buildings. Grandst was completed to the East
River about this tme-the country north from being
mostly bare In lS2l the canal in Canast. was built
whence that street began to be built on. This canal
was subterranean duct for conveying away the water
from the Collect and other low places Blocker st
on the west and Bond s on the east began 10 be punt
ON about the year 1925.
Al first the inclination to build TO the East River
In l74i of the La houses then erected but l29 were
on the west side from Broadway The inclination sub
sequently changed to the North River; but now the
pace is about even.
We have met with no records giving information OF
the number of buildings erected in given years, re-
pectivey in time previous to 1925. In that year there
we're 500 houses built which is the largest number 60
far as we can learn that has ever been built in New
York in any given year This following the open
ING of the Erie Canal The impetus to building by the
opening Of this Canal continued be great for several
years.
Arriving more nearly down TO the present we Ind
tina, the number of erectons for the year ls47 wos
siS decline from the previous year of Ga. Of these
srectons the proportion of TO have been on the
different avenues and streets named numerically A
sixth part Of the whole number were built between
Twentieth and Thirteth inclusive exclusive of the
|n,ersecting avenues.
Among the more prominent buildings being erected
we mention the Free Academy corner of Lexington
avenue and Twenty -thirdst; Rev. DR.. Tyngs Il
Georges Episcopal Church. the second-avenue, be-
tween Sixteenth and Seventeenth sts German Cath
Ollie Church to be called the ST. Nicholas, Tairdst
betwees Firstavenue and Avenue an Irish Catholic
Church corner Avenue and Eighth ST. large hote
in Broadway corner of Chambers, by the Messrs How
ard. former proprietors Of Towards Hotel and ho
tel corner of Frankfort and Chatham SITS by Richard
French. proprietor Of Frenchs Hotel in Chatham st
and proprietor formerly of the Exchange Hotel in
fultonst
The Free Academy viii much ornament the part OF
the town in which i, is built Its chief features it's
numerous but,resses and towers and its lofty hight.
The wall of the lower story in which is ncosed play
ground is built of free-s,one and the remainder of
brick to be succeed. It's ground dimensions are lbs
feet by so The Churches will all be larger edihces
The outside material OF all will be free stone Frenchs
MOTEL will extend - feet Cha,hamst. aud l36 on
Frankfort. and be stories high Hsrris's Congress
Sugar Refinery in Duane st the site of the one lately
burnt down is a building OF the largest dimensions
at completed 1t 96l feet front by 30 deep, and in
GLIDING the basement 10 stories hghl2 at the gables
The walls (oi brick graduate from feet in thickness
Al the basement to 10 inches at the eaves
much larger number of old buildings than usual are
hsnv pulled down TO clear the ground for respectable
and substantial new ones. This appears to be isc
rejecting much commentator upon landlords. Though
l,hsre are some of these gentlemen who suffer ihel
honses t rot down In the most beautiful avenues Of the
CITY for the sake Of better rents than could be got pro
on better edhces The evidences are before
H.. tina, the BODY OF them without ambition Il
,ee their remses and in consequence their town, in
tdica,ips 9 march Of improvement OF the bmlding
tswsitins their destruction conversion into someihn.
ks.e one quit, prominent appears to be the Reservoir
II, ras, Thirteenth ST. which served well the Fir
tDensytment prior to the Introduction OF the Croon wa
er While the old Manhattan Reservoir in Chambers
- is suspended in midway operations OF being con
verified into porfsr house are told. diihcu'',
Ik4,ween the Manhattan Bank and the New York bioh
Society is existing in relation to this ResorVoirn'
Manhattan Bank appearing to have sold It to the bo'
Society for site for its proposed new building ana 'n'
Bible Society appearing have sought to throw up 'n'
purchase in consequence Of having discovered nni
lance In the rear OF said Reservoir
( The style of building at the presen, day, IS con
hs,ng with that of early Anssrdaa dsys, has clam
% our attention but only briefly notice it. Those
were days Of ,hs,chcd roofs. wooden chimneys. anc
gable ends also porches dormer windows, and sIeoPle
sidgepoles Now sdays new face is worn by srchi
lecture 1t has 1t may be said begun de ~Oro owning
20 connection except 10 certain Roman and Gothic OF
ders That new era has dswned In respect TO The
material for building the walls Of houses which threat
ems an extensive encroachment on the temskirg bust
ress truth to be learned simply BY walk through tn
Fifteenth Ward aud parts adjacent If we cannot err
many years boast equality with any city IN the work
tor sdca elegance and splendor ID will not be for wan
Of munhcence and refinement Of taste In our men Wit
build from present Appearances and our surety In thi
kbut Ices in the enterprise and genius OF those VII