Casimir Goerck

The 1801 Mangin-Goerck plan for New York City. Reprint for Valentine's Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, 1856.

Casimir Thomas Goerck (died 19 November or 11 December, 1798) was the city surveyor for New York from 1788.

Career

According to Stokes's The Iconography of Manhattan Island, Goerck first appeared on the New York scene in 1785. He was appointed city surveyor for New York in 1788.[1]

With the French architect Joseph-François Mangin, Goerck was commissioned by the Common Council of New York to prepare a new regulatory map of the city. Goerck died before the map could be completed and Mangin finished it on his own, adding Mangin Street and Goerck Street as well as other improvements and additions that went far beyond the project commissioned by the Council.[2]

Death

According to Stokes, Goerck died on 19 November 1798.[1] Cohen and Augustyn say 11 December 1798.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Stokes, Isaac Newton Phelps. (1915) The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. New York: Robert H. Dodd. p. 607.
  2. ↑ 1801 Mangin-Goerck Plan or Map of New York City. Geographicus Rare Antique Maps. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  3. ↑ Cohen, Paul E. & Robert T. Augustyn (2014). Manhattan in Maps 1527-2014. Mineola: Dover Publications. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-486-77991-1.

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