

St. Patrick’s (Old)Cathedral was destroyed by fire on 22 October 1866. John T. Ridge Collection (AIA.068), Archives of Irish America, New York University.

The Trustees of St. Patrick’s Cathedral had two mortgages (totaling $80,000) with the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank in the 1860s and 1870s. Bond and Mortgage No. 297, Emigrant Savings Bank Records, New York Public Library.