ca. 1870

Manhattan: 8th Avenue - 23rd Street (West)

Eighth Avenue (right), at the N.W. corner of West 23rd Street (left), showing the Grand Opera House. This house was built and opened by Samuel N. Pike as Pike's Opera House, January 9, 1868. James Fisk and Jay Gould purchased the house in March 1869 and gave it the present name. 1870's American Studio, photo 87 Nassau Street, N.Y.C. Gift of Urbrock Collection REPRODUCTION RIGHTS UNKNOWN

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection