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Memory LaneCongratulations to FEDORA who celebrates 50 years in business this June! Colt perfected the revolver in the Old NYU Building on Washington Square East. U.S. Grant had a pew for 7 years in the old Metropolitan Temple at the corner of Seventh Avenue and 13th Street. Delamater Iron Works (13th Street near the Hudson River) made the engines for the iron clad warship, the Monitor, designed by John Ericsson. Built in 100 working days, the Monitor defeated the Confederate warship, the Merrimac, at Hampton Roads, Virginia in 1862 with Delamater men manning the engines. Ericsson, the father of modern marine engineering, built his screw propellers at Delamater, designed the 1st steam fire engines here, the 1st air compressor, and a torpedo boat, the parent of the present day destroyer. The 1st submarine torpedo boat was built here in 1881 under the direction of J.P. Holland, for whom the Holland Tunnel is named. England's Edward VII, stopped at the Hotel Brevoort at Fifth Avenue and 8th Street, when he was Prince of Wales. Abraham Lincoln's address at the Cooper Union is credited with giving him the Republican Presidential nomination. Jennie Jerome, the mother of Winston Churchill, attended the school which once stood at One Fifth Avenue. Lafayette once visited Public School 3 at the corner of Hudson and Grove Street. Charles Lindbergh's prize for his famous flight was given by Raymond Orteig, manager of the Brevoort Hotel and later of the Hotel Lafayette, located at University Place at 9th Street. Pres. James Monroe spent his last year in the Village, living with his daughter Mrs. Samuel L. Gouverneur at 63 Prince Street near the corner of Crosby, He died on July 4, 1831 and was buried from this home. |