 After Laura received an inheritance from her father, who had been quite well off, they were able to move to a part of town that suited Anna's fashionable taste.Broadway Street, in what is now known as the historic armory district on the West Side, was a more elegant part of the city.They purchased an elegant, three-story house, constructed in 1867, and most of its furnishings from the widowed Mrs. George Prentice.