Tuesday, December 11, 2018

C. P. H. Gilbert's 23 and 24 Riverside Drive

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In 1893 the trustees of the New York Orphan Asylum sold off its sprawling grounds overlooking the Hudson River.  Stretching from Rivers...
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Monday, December 10, 2018

The Lost 1935 S. H. Kress & Co Bldg - 444 Fifth Avenue

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The second floor windows were flanked by plaques of stylized Mayan motifs.  photo by Wurtz Bros. from the collection of the Museum of the...
Saturday, December 8, 2018

The Hungarian House - 213-215 East 82nd Street

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The mirror-image brick-faced houses at Nos. 213 and 215 East 82nd Street were built around the time of the Civil War.  Stone stoops led ...
Thursday, December 6, 2018

The Russian Tea Room - 150 West 57th Street

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photograph by the author On February 3, 1873 John F. Pupke purchased two back-to-back lots on 57th and 56th Streets between Sixth and ...
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From Sweat Shop to Sumptuous Living - 44 Lispenard Street

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Not long after New York's labor force returned from fighting in the South a building boom engulfed the Tribeca area as vintage homes...
Wednesday, December 5, 2018

The 1874 Acker, Merrill & Condit Stable -- 134-136 West 10th Street

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At noon on April 16, 1873 the "Valuable Plot of Ground with buildings" at Nos. 134 and 136 West 10th Street was sold at auctio...
Tuesday, December 4, 2018

The 1900 Charles de Cordova House - 312 West 105th Street

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Once development got going on the Upper West Side, it steamrolled.  Beginning in the 1880's developers filled entire block fronts ...