Showing posts with label joseph h. taft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label joseph h. taft. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

The Smith Newell Penfield House - 329 West 112th Street

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  In June 1886 Edward Roemer purchased five building plots on the east side of Manhattan Avenue, beginning at the northeast corner of West 1...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2022

The John Schmieg House - 313 West 88th Street

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  Millionaire William E. D. Stokes turned to real estate development in the late 1880's, focusing on the Upper West Side.  For three yea...
Monday, October 14, 2019

The Lost Cassius M. Wicker House - 599 West End Avenue

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The For Sale signs in the windows date this photo to 1923.  Brilliant stained glass transoms can be seen at the second and third stories....
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

The 1888 Henry E. Stevens House - 280 West 86th Street

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No. 280 is the sole survivor of the six-house row. In the summer of 1887 developer J. C. Caldwell announced he would be erecting six r...
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

The Richard Royce Conant House - No. 310 West 89th Street

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No. 310 (right) originally had a brownstone stoop and a pierced balcony railing at the third floor identical to that next door. On Oct...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

The New York Institute of Music -- No. 560 West End Avenue

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The turret window panes would have originally been curved to conform to the rounded shape. William Earl Dodge Stokes was as col...
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