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Showing posts with label art deco architecture. Show all posts

Showing posts with label art deco architecture. Show all posts

Friday, May 29, 2026

Boak & Paris's 1930 45 Christopher Street

In 1929 Cobham Realty hired the architectural firm of Murgatroyd & Ogden to design a 16-story-and-penthouse "brick hotel" on...

Friday, March 27, 2026

William S. Schneider's 1928 136 Waverly Place

In 1854, the Greenwich Savings Bank erected an Anglo-Italianate-style bank building at the southwest corner of Sixth Avenue and Waverly Pl...

Friday, February 27, 2026

The 1931 Dumont Building - 515 Madison Avenue

image via redesignarchitects.com Architect James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter, Jr. (who went professionally as J. E. R. Carpenter) was three ye...

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Arthur Paul Hess's 1930 200 East 16th Street

Arthur Paul Hess was a busy man during the late 1920s. He was not only an architect, but a builder and developer, president of the Middle...

Thursday, November 27, 2025

George G. Miller's 1931 461 West 44th Street

photograph by Anthony Bellov On August 14, 1931, The New York Times reported that the New York Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church ...

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Tom Miller: 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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