Specifications and letters for Rebuilding Pier 13, East River, 1878-1884

Summary Information

Description

Scope and content

Specifications document, 6 pages in manuscript, 12 x 8 inches, 1882; Letter to David Whipple offering to sell pier rights, 1878; Letter from Whipple to wife concerning pier, 1884.

Publication Date

1878-1884

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Method of acquisition--Purchased;; Date of acquisition--2011. Accession number--2011.025.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

Biographical / Historical

Manhattan's Pier 13 extended into the East River at the end of Wall Street, and played its part in New York's long port history. It was demolished in 2007.

Subject Headings

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Place
East River (N.Y.)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Subject
Architecture -- New York (State) -- New York	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Piers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Design and construction	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID