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Showing posts with label west 83rd street. Show all posts
Showing posts with label west 83rd street. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Schwartz & Gross's 1913 41 West 83rd Street

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  image via apartments.com The concept of multi-family buildings had taken a firm hold within the Upper West Side by the turn of the last ce...
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Tuesday, October 1, 2024

McKim, Mead & White's 1885 167-173 West 83rd Street

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  I n 1891, developer David H. King, Jr. hired McKim, Mead & White to design a block-wide row of houses known as the King Model Houses a...
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Tuesday, August 29, 2023

The 1885 Russell R. Cornell House - 67 West 83rd Street

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67 West 83rd Street is the middle house in the trio. In 1884, John and David Jardine designed a pair of sumptuous homes for Richard Deeves a...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

The Thomas L. Camerden House - 69 West 83rd Street

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  John Jardine was a partner with his brother David in the architectural firm D. & J. Jardine.  The firm was prolific in designing rows ...
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

The Richard Deeves House - 58 West 83rd Street

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  Born in Queens County, Ireland in 1836, Richard Deeves established his construction firm in 1869.  By the early 1880s his son John Henry w...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023

The Edward Payson Haff House - 60 West 83rd Street

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  Richard Deeves was a major contractor and builder, responsible for constructing some of Manhattan's most recognizable structures, like...
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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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