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Creator Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927
Title The "Sorrel Horse" and the "Rising Sun"
Date ca. 1919
Description View of a stone and lumber building with a sign that labels it "David F. Ferguson Storage." A caption in the bottom left corner of the image reads, " Rising Sun Hotel, Woodland Ave. below 54th St."
Notes Just southwestward of the old Darby Road toll-gate at Forty-ninth Street there yet remain two time-worn structures once popular with speeders on their way to or returning from Suffolk Driving Park. The first, known as the "Sorrel Horse," is at Greenway lane, just beyond Fifty-first Street. It bears the date of 1800. Some owner, in the time of its decadence, has removed its dormed roof and built above the old walls a third floor as a place of the storage of odds and ends of many sorts. The other, famed as the "Rising Sun," probably dates from colonial days. Not since the ears when "two-forty on the plank road" was the nation-wide synonym of speed records have these old-timers known the prosperity of crowded stable yards and equally crowded tap rooms. They linger as reminders of days and ways long gone of interest chiefly to the passing artist and the oldest inhabitant.
Taylor Catalog Number: 181
Is part of Frank H. Taylor Collection
Identifier Taylor - Case 9-3b [2717.F]