City Hotel (Manhattan)

[2]: 25,caption  Until the early 1840s it was the city's principal site for prestigious social functions and concerts.

[3] Designed by John McComb Jr.,[4] it offered not only luxurious accommodations, but also such amenities as shops, a barroom, and a coffeehouse, as well as public dining and dancing.

Its five stories and 137 rooms[5] replaced the former home of Stephen Delancey, built around 1700, which had become an inn.

[6] An 1825 guide-book, first published in 1817, calls it "an immense building, 5 stories in height, [which] contains 78 rooms of various dimensions, fitted up and furnished in a tasteful, elegant and convenient manner … the proprietor of this Hotel makes it his constant study to provide the best of every thing to his visitors.

He gave it to a granddaughter, Sara Langdon, who married Francis Robert Boreen in 1834, as a dowry.