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Fifth Avenue

CHAPTER II
19/19

45, Mrs.J.P.Cassidy, No.

49, and William W.
Thompkins, No.68.Besides the private residences are mentioned the Hotel Brevoort (the traditional name is used), the Berkeley at No.

20, and the Church of the Ascension, at Tenth Street, one of the very first of the Fifth Avenue churches, and the scene, on June 26, 1844, of the marriage of President John Tyler and Miss Julia Gardiner, the first marriage of a President of the United States during his term of office.
The church a block farther north, on the same side of the Avenue is the First Presbyterian, dating from 1845, when the congregation moved uptown from the earlier edifice on Wall Street, just east of New Street..


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