New York City Map 1865 City Plan - Manhattan, Brooklyn, Hoboken

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. issued this updated state of his plan of the City of New York in 1865, adding ward numbers and color delineation to the earlier circa-1860 edition he had published after acquiring his father's former business from DeSilver. The revised plan continues to detail Manhattan alongside parts of Brooklyn, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Hoboken and Jersey City, with the same multiple ferry lines, streets and public buildings shown on the earlier state, now organized by numbered ward for easier civic reference. Mitchell had relaunched the family publishing business successfully enough by this point that it would continue operating for more than twenty additional years before licensing and selling off much of its inventory and rights. This 1865 printing arrives at the very end of the Civil War, a moment of real significance for a city that had weathered the 1863 Draft Riots just two years earlier.

The Academy of Music, still the city's premier opera house at this date, continues to be marked at what is now the site of the Consolidated Edison building, unchanged from the earlier state of the plan. The Orphan Asylum, also known as the Colored Orphan Asylum, still appears between 44th and 45th Streets and Fifth and Sixth Avenues despite having burned down in 1863 during the Draft Riots, suggesting the plan's underlying survey data was not fully updated even as ward numbers and coloring were added. The added ward numbering itself reflects a genuine civic development, giving city officials and residents alike a clearer administrative framework for a rapidly growing population in the years just after the war. Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Hoboken and Jersey City all continue to anchor the harbor's wider ferry-linked geography exactly as they had on the earlier 1860 state.

This updated Mitchell plan makes a fitting gift for a New York family with roots in the city during the Civil War's final years, or for a Brooklyn or Jersey City transplant interested in the ward system that once organized their neighborhood. We also carry Mitchell's earlier circa-1860 state of this same plan; this 1865 edition adds ward numbers and color delineation, distinguishing it as the later, more administratively detailed printing even though the Orphan Asylum notation was carried over unrevised. It's available unframed, in the full range of sizes from a compact print through to a large-format piece for a study or office wall.