he Avenue, was the former home of Horace Greeley, and in
Twentieth Street (No. 28) Theodore Roosevelt was born.

"Worth noting," says "Fifth Avenue," the publication issued by the Fifth
Avenue Bank, "are the names of prominent New Yorkers who, during the
fifties, lived on Fifth Avenue between Washington Square and
Twenty-first Street. Among them were Lispenard Stewart, Thomas Eggleson,
Silas Wood, Henry C. De Rham, Thomas F. Woodruff, Francis Cottinet,
David S. Kennedy, James Donaldson, Dr. J. Kearney Rodgers, C.N. Talbot,
N.H. Wolfe, James McBride, Charles M. Parker, L.M. Hoffman, August
Belmont, Benjamin Aymer, Henry C. Winthrop, Eugene Schiff, Captain
Lorillard Spencer, Moses Taylor, John C. Coster, Henry A. Coster, Sidney
Mason, Marshall O. Roberts, Robert L. Cutting, Gordon W. Burnham, Robert
C. Townsend, George Opdyke, Robert L. Stuart, whose magnificent art
collection was given to the Lenox Library, and James Lenox, the founder
of the Lenox Library. The fortunes of these gentlemen as recorded in
'Wealth and Biography of the Wealthy Citizens of New York,' averaged
between one hundred and three hundred thousand dollars. One of the
richest men in New York at that time was James Lenox, who had inherited
the then huge fortune of three million dollars; another large fortune
was that of James McBride, estimated at seven hundred thousand dollars."

Then there were the clubs, the Union at the northwest corner of
Twenty-first Street, the Lotos Club, just across the Avenue, the
Athenaeum, at the southwest corner of Sixteenth Street, the Travellers;
in the building that had formerly been the residence of Gordon W.
Burnham, at the southwest corner of Eighteenth Street, the Arcadian, at
No. 146, between Nineteenth and Twentieth Streets, the Manhattan,
occupying the Charles C. Parker house at the southwest corner of
Fifteenth Street, the New York, which, occupying another corner at the
same street, until 1874, then moved a few blocks northward to a house on
the Avenue facing Madison Square. How the window loungers of that
clubland stretch of the seventies and eighties would have stared and
rubbed their eyes had it been given to them to see the procession that
throngs the sidewalks today!

The stretch of glories departed is quickly passed. The nine blocks are
really eight, for it is at Twenty-second Street that the Flatiron
begins, and the drab hives behind are forgotten as the vision of the
Square strikes the eye. The Parisia