StreetscenesFolder-Vance-House

Street Scenes

Photo crop exposure date: unknown.
Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1848-1878
Subject: Photo crop of a book page with caption of the Vance House (1848) at Houston and St. Mary’s. View is NNE from intersection of Houston Street and St. Mary’s Street showing the Vance House built by Vance as US Army Headquarters during period of 1846-1848. Reconditioned as a hotel after the war. There does not appear to be any street car tracks on Houston Street. The line was in place by summer of 1878.