Try The Iconography of Manhattan Island. It is full of maps. Milton M. Klein | phone: (865) 974-2806 University of Tennessee, Knoxville | email: [log in to unmask] On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, nancy hyden woodward wrote: >I am looking for a description of NYC and its architecture in the 1670s. Can >someone point me to a book that would have it? (I know there is a book >written in 1909 by Mariana Griswold Renesselaer but the library cannot get >it.) > >Or, does anyone know the answers? > >Was it triangular-shaped at the foot of the island? > >Were the homes one- or, two-story? Of wood? Of brick? Both? Two rooms? Four >rooms? > >Thanks. > >Nancy Hyden Woodward >