Miller's New York as it is, or, Stranger's guide-book to the cities of New York, Brooklyn and adjacent places : comprising notices of every object of interest to strangers ; including public buildings, churches, hotels, places of amusement, literary institutions, etc . interesting one to visit. THE BLOOMINGDALE ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE, A branch of the New York Hospital, is situated in theBloomingdale Eoad, at a distance of about seven milesfrom the City Hall. It occupies a most beautiful andcommanding site, and its approach and surroundingsare admirably fitted to lighten the sense of depressiona
Miller's New York as it is, or, Stranger's guide-book to the cities of New York, Brooklyn and adjacent places : comprising notices of every object of interest to strangers ; including public buildings, churches, hotels, places of amusement, literary institutions, etc . interesting one to visit. THE BLOOMINGDALE ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE, A branch of the New York Hospital, is situated in theBloomingdale Eoad, at a distance of about seven milesfrom the City Hall. It occupies a most beautiful andcommanding site, and its approach and surroundingsare admirably fitted to lighten the sense of depressionand gloom which we instinctively associate with everyestablishment of the kind. The treatment administer-ed to its unfortunate inmates, too, is of the most en-lightened, humane, and rational sort. The principalbuilding is 211 feet in length, 60 in depth, and fourstories in height; with side buildings. The approach to the Asylum from the southern en-trance, by the stranger who associates the most sombrescenes with a lunatic hospital, is highly pleasing. Thesudden opening of the view, the extent of the grounds,the various avenues gracefully winding through soarge a lawn; the cedar hedges, the fir and other orna-mental trees, tastefully distributed or grouped, the. BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. 47 variety of shrubbery and flowers. The central building,however, is always open to visitors, and the view fromthe top of it, being the most extensive and beautiful ofany in the vicinity of the city, is well worthy of theirattention. THE LENOX HOSPITAL, Appropriately named after its benevolent and public-spirited founder, Mr. James Lenox, is situated on Sev-entieth street, near Fifth Avenue. There are three large handsome buildings, pleasantlysituated, and with every imaginable convenience thatthe comfort of its inmates requires ; the whole, includ-ing the site on which it is erected^ being a gift of itsfounder to the city. Probably no finer buildings, en-dowed by a single individual and devoted
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