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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Trustees of the Astor Library of the City of New-York: Made to the Legislature, January 29, 1850 (Classic Reprint)
On the 28th of Sept. 1848, the trustees selected the site for the library. Under the will they had the choice of a piece of ground 65 feet in width and 125 feet in depth, on the south'side of Astor Place.
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