Although the first National Cat Show at Madison Square Garden II in May 1895 is often cited as the first cat show in America, there were actually quite a few cat shows in New York City, including the Cat Congress at the New American Museum on Broadway.
Archive for February, 2016
1881: Humpty Dumpty, Colonel Washington, and the Featured Felines of the Cat Congress on Broadway
Posted: 28th February 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Featured FelinesTags: Cat Congress, George L. Fox, Geroge B. Bunnell, New American Museum, New York History, Old New York, Robert Richard Randal
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1891: The Well-Bred Cats and Dogs of the Whitby Kennels in Flatbush, Brooklyn
Posted: 13th February 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Dog TailsTags: Dominie Freeman, Flatbush Avenue, Hurlbut Chapman, John C. Bergen, New York History, Teunis Bergen, Whitby Kennels
In 1891, Hurlbut Chapman, a once prominent lawyer from Rye, New York, leased the old John C. Bergen homestead at 972 Flatbush Avenue, at the corner of Avenue A (today’s Albemarle Road). There, he opened the Whitby Kennels, where he boarded the dogs and cats of wealthy New Yorkers.
