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Hippodrome, 977

Historic preservation, 378, 1084

Historical scholarship, 695-96

History: interest in New York, 1083-86

Irving’s Knickbocker, 416-19

sense of, 694-97

History of the Province of New York (Smith Jr.), 180

Hoe and Company, 527, 665

Hoe’s (Richard) March Brightside, 718

Hoffman House, 902, 959

Hog Island. See Roosevelt Island

Hole in the Wall, 757

Holidays: in colonial New York, 107, 143

in early nineteenth century, 485, 510, 532

for Germans, 829, 840

for Jewish, 1152

in late nineteenth century, 1091, 1125-26

and liquor, 485

in New Amsterdam, 54-55, 57, 58

in 1790s and early 1800s, 316, 403

for working class, 1901. See also specific holiday

Holland Lodge, 380

Holland. See Netherlands

Holland Society, 1083

Holland Tunnel, 374

Hollow Way, 241

Holy Cross Cemetery, 751

“Holy Ground,” 214, 229, 408, 483

Home Buildings and Tower Buildings, 1174

Home for the Friendless, 802

Home Missionary Society, 775, 1210

Home for Working Women, 992

Homeless, 748, 774, 846, 873, 1030-32, 1158, 1160, 1181, 1182, 1185, 1188, 1201

Homesteading, 771, 789, 833, 853, 899, 939

Homosexuality, 796-98, 1142-43, 1164, 1169, 1183

Hong Kong-New York packet line, 1127

“Hookers,” 484

Hooley’s Minstrels, 758

Horatio Street, 332, 363. See also Gates Street

Horse racing: in colonial New York, 179, 188, 193-94, 218, 247

in early nineteenth century, 453-54, 486

in late nineteenth century, 939, 952-54, 1136, 1137, 1164

in mid-nineteenth century, 756, 879

and morality, 1164

in New Amsterdam, 78, 79

in post-revolutionary New York, 300

in 1790s and early 1800s, 405

and social life, 953-54

and women, 954

Horsecars, 565, 772, 929, 931, 945, 972, 974, 991, 1056-57, 1058, 1068, 1095-96, 1101, 1104

Horses: and carriage promenade, 952

in mid-nineteenth century, 787

reliance on, 948

and sanitation, 787

and social life, 952-55 See also Horse racing; Horsecars

Hospitals: army, 882

on Blackwell’s Island, 804, 810

and British occupation of New York, 250

Catholic patients in Protestant, 776

and Civil War, 881-82

in colonial New York, 181

in early nineteenth century, 508

in 1830s, 592-93

for Jews, 749

in late nineteenth century, 930, 1197, 1217

lying in, 810-11

in mid-nineteenth century, 623, 737, 749, 775, 776, 785, 804, 810-11

in New Amsterdam, 44

in revolutionary New York, 213, 229

in 1790s and early 1800s, 385

and Spanish-American War, 1217

Hotels: and Civil War, 879, 903

and commercial expansion, 436

and consumerism, 879

in early nineteenth century, 340, 436, 484

entertaining in, 375

fire in, 903

in late nineteenth century, 944-45, 959, 1069, 1137, 1203

liquor in, 1203

in mid-nineteenth century, 642, 671-72, 756, 774, 814, 823

for middle class, 970

and party politics, 823

and prostitutes, 484, 814

in 1790s and early 1800s, 375

and Tammany, 823

utilities for, 1069

for working women, 992

House of Barings, 445, 568, 570, 615, 657, 847, 1185

House of Belmont, 931

House of Commons, 196

House of Cooke, 1021

House of Correction, 156

House of Good Hope, 29. See also Hartford, Connecticut

House of Goupil, 721

House of Industry, 382, 624, 776, 784, 789, 802

House of Israel, 481

House of Joseph and Company, 639

House of Lords, 196

House of Low, 435

House of Mercy, 776

House of Reception, 535-36

House of Refuge, 501–2, 503, 507, 548, 780, 1161

House of Representatives, US., 206, 297, 329, 514, 985. See also Congress, U.S.

House of Rothschild, 615, 638-39, 714

House of Seligman, 931

Housing: and architecture, 1200

for artisans, 187, 188, 448, 747, 789

for blacks, 972-73, 992-93

and British occupation of New York, 249, 250-51, 252

in Brooklyn, 475, 933, 972-73, 991-92, 1129

and city development, 930

and Civil War, 883-84, 899

and class issues, 188

in colonial New York, 110, 135, 177-79, 183, 187, 188, 192

condemnation of, 1199

and Consolidation, 1236

country, 178-79

and Crash of 1873, 1022

in early nineteenth century, 447, 448,