This survey, created at the time of excavation, provides a detailed overview of the block on which the Library would be built. Morgan and his second wife, Fanny, lived at 219 Madison, on the northeast corner of 36th Street and Madison Avenue. The new Library would be constructed half a block to the east, on 36th Street between Madison and Park, where the large blank space appears on the map.
Francis W. Ford (1846–1904)
Survey of the block between 36th and 37th Streets and Madison and Park Avenues, New York, 17 October 1902
Ink on linen
New-York Historical Society, McKim, Mead & White Architectural Collection