Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Site of the Assay Office on Wall Street: An Illustrated Historical Sketch of the Successive Public Buildings and Men in Public Life Connected With the Site; Interspersed With Some Family History
This narrative is inscribed to the Honorable Verne M. Bovie, Superintendent of the Assay Office during the period of construction of the new building, 1917 -21, and the renovation after the disastrous bomb explosion on September 16th, 1920, and to Messrs. York and Sawyer, architects of the new building, the narrative is also inscribed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
