Manhattan: 14th Street (West) - 6th Avenue
Old Cruger or Douglas Mansion, 128 West 14th Street, south side, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. Originally built as a reproduction of Boscobel House, the Douglas family nest in Scotland, it has had a long and varied history. Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, stayed here in 1851. Theodore Roosevelt the Elder played here as a boy. From 1873 to 1879 it was occupied by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Then it became a saloon, and finally ended its days as the Salvation Army training college, like a tired old man turning to religion at the end of a colorful life. About 1918. Ewing Galloway.
Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection
