 In the early 1900s, Stuyvesant Square was among the city's most fashionable addresses.The Stuyvesant Building, at 17 Livingston Place on the eastern edge of the Square, was home to such luminaries as publisher George Putnam, "Harper's Bazaar" editor Elizabeth Jordan and Elizabeth Custer, the widow of General George Armstrong Custer.The opening of St. George’s Church, located on Rutherford Place and 16th Street (built on land obtained from Peter Stuyvesant, 1848–1856; burnt down in 1865; remodeled by C.O.Blesch and L. Eidlitz, 1897) and the Friends Meeting House and Seminary (to the southwest) (1861, Charles Bunting) attracted more residents to the area around the park.