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Showing posts with label george and edward blum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label george and edward blum. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Blum & Blum's 1912 875 Park Avenue

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image via fis-architecture.com Having studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, brothers George and Edward Blum opened their architectur...
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Friday, November 21, 2025

The Emanuel Kaplan House - 67 East 77th Street

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  John McNerney completed construction of eight four-story-and-basement homes on East 77th Street between Park and Madison Avenues in 1877. ...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Blum & Blum's 1926 322 Central Park West

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  image via streeteasy.com The 1920s saw a flurry of construction along Central Park West as residential hotels, most erected just before th...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

The 1913 The Dallieu - 838 West End Avenue

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  On July 6, 1913, The New York Times remarked that "the west side will always remain the great apartment district of the city, a fact...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Blum & Blum's 1913 105 West 72nd Street

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  photograph by Richard Caplan, via corenyc.com At the turn of the last century, the 72nd Street blockfront between Columbus and Amsterdam A...
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Born in Dayton, Ohio, I relocated to New York city in 1978. An author, blogger, lecturer and historian, I have written the histories of more than 5,000 locations in Manhattan (as of March 2025). I am the author of "Seeking New York" and "Seeking Chicago," and contributed to several other books, and consulted for pieces in Architectural Digest, The New York Times, and similar publications..
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