1870

Manhattan: Madison Avenue - 26th Street (East)

Madison Avenue, north across East 26th Street. Occupying the easterly frontage, from 26th to 27th Streets is the first Madison Square Garden. It was the abandoned passenger station of the N. Y. Central and Hudson River Railroad. Because of a series of band concerts under P. S. Gilmore, it popularly became Gilmore's Garden. Serving this purpose for twenty years it was removed for the second Madison Square Garden designed by Stanford White. On the right is the University Club, organized in 1865. The 5-story brownstone site at the left will (after about 1895) house the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Ewing Galloway Between 1870 and 1890

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection