Official New York Report on Bloomingdale Asylum 1888 [ Columbia University , Morningside Park ]

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Official report on attempts to close Bloomingdale Asylum and make room for Morningside Park and Columbia University

Report of the Committee on Taxation and Retrenchment Of The Senate Of The State Of New York In The Matter of the Memorial of the Morningside Park Association In Reference to The Bloomingdale Asylum For The Insane. Troy Press Company. 1888.

Scarce copy of New York State Senate’s findings in the case of the Morningside Park Association versus the Bloomingdale
Asylum, a chapter in the legal battle—partially led by noted landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead, designer of
Central Park—that removed the unsightly asylum from the land now occupied by Columbia University, Barnard College, and
the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Association copy with bookplate calling it a gift of assemblyman and committee member John C. Adams.

One copy in OCLC as of July 2021.

8vo, 315pp, Red cloth boards with title gilt on spine. White stains on front board, slight wear and fraying to top fore edge corner. Gilt title stained red on spine, bottom fore joint corner bumped. Some small dents to back board, corners likewise bumped. Book block darkened with small scrape along fore edge. Presentation plate on top fore corner of front pastedown reads “Courtesy of John C. Adams Member of the Assembly”, lower fore corner clipped. Pages darkened with the occasional small stain but otherwise clean. Good condition.

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