Rachel Stanwood a Story of the Middle of the Nineteenth Century (Classic Reprint)

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Ten years or thereabouts before our civil war, in the city of New York, in one of the cross streets between Ninth and Tenth avenues, Twelfth and Twentieth streets, there was a row of six three story, red brick houses with green blinds, high door steps, and small, neat grass plots in front. The houses were numbered from 264 to 274. In the grass patch before no. 268 a honeysuckle vine was planted and trained upon wires so as to conceal the drain-pipe and climb almost as far as the top of the parlor windows. In front of the house, by the curbstone, were two ?ourishing young horse-chestnut trees with tall, green-painted wooden pantalettes on their trunks for protection. There were no other trees on the block, the main part of which was occupied by vacant lots and lumber yards. Along Tenth Avenue, where the Hudson River Railroad ran, was a row of irregular buildings with shabby stores on the ground ?oor.

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