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Old Goelet Mansion Holds Fast Against Trade Surge
Special Correspondence from New York details the lone private Broad Street house at Fifty-ninth Street, the Goelet mansion, and its fate as commerce reshapes Broadway. The aged residence, occupied by a single lifelong mistress and two servants, stands amid demolished neighbors while plans near Fifth Avenue threaten its demise for a modern block.
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New York
Fifty-ninth Street
Central Park
The
Battery
Broadway
Fifth Avenue
Central Park Lines
Elbridge T. Gerry
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Robert
Ogden
Mra Gerry
Miss Goelet
Goelet
Nineteenth Street
Allit
Coddington
New York Hotel
Twenty-third Street
Sixth Avenue
Schermerhorn
Edwin Schermerhorn
William
Twenty-fourth Street
Nathen
Benjamin Nathan
Paris
Adams Express Company
Nathan
Staten Island
Manhattan Island
Western Union Telegraph Company
Spingler
Fourteenth Street
Fifth
Sixth Avenues
van Buren