Showing posts with label art moderne architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art moderne architecture. Show all posts
Saturday, August 29, 2026

Fellheimer & Wagner's Corn Exchange Bank - 267 Broadway

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  The expansive Wallach Brothers clothing store occupied 265-267 Broadway in the post-World War I years.  The building was owned by the Orph...
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Friday, August 21, 2026

The 1931 Rothman's Pawn Shop Building - 149 Eighth Avenue

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  Born in the Chelsea area of New York City on March 6, 1833, Rev. Stephen Merritt Jr. joined his father's undertaking business in the c...
Friday, January 23, 2026

Sylvan Bien's 1939 150 West 21st Street

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  Born in Austria, architect Sylvan Bien emigrated to San Francisco to work on the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition.  He relocated to New York...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Emery Roth & Sons' 1940 875 Fifth Avenue

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  In 1939, a syndicate called the 877 Fifth Avenue Corporation was formed for the purpose of erecting a modern apartment house at the southe...
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Monday, October 6, 2025

The Lost Jane Engel Buildilng - 1025 Madison Avenue

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  photo by Wurts Bros. from the collection of the New York Public Library. Like thousands of workers in the wake of the 1929 Wall Street Cra...
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Thursday, August 21, 2025

The 1948 Artistocrat Apartments - 45 West 54th Street

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  photograph by Lowell Cochrane In 1948, the Kleban Construction Company contracted architects De Young, Moskowitz & Rosenberg to design...
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