PORTER HORACE Typed Letter Signed

Sale 2177 - Lot 40

Unsold

Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500

PORTER, HORACE. Typed Letter Signed, to John Winfield Scott, expressing his approval of efforts to preserve [New York City's] City Hall building and to prevent further building in City Hall Park. 2 pages, 8vo, personal stationery, written on the first and fourth pages of a single folded sheet. New York, 17 February 1894

Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

". . . The City Hall has been the scene of so many historic events that it would be most unfortunate to remove it from its present site . . . . We at present have too few breathing places for our population in the southern portion of the city . . . another error should not be committed . . . by the erection of municipal buildings [in City Hall Park]."