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Showing posts with label mid-century modern architecture. Show all posts
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Wednesday, July 31, 2024

The Altered John Bigelow House - 21 Gramercy Park

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  image via forrent.com By 1849, Samuel B. Ruggles’ ambitious project of a high-toned residential enclave centered around his Gramercy Squar...
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Horace Ginsbern's 1941 66 West 88th Street

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  photo by Lowell Cochrane On May 13, 1940, seven months before the attack on Pearl Harbor would pull America into World War II, The New Yor...
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Saturday, July 20, 2024

H. I. Feldman's 1954 4 East 89th Street

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  In 1929, the five-story, 94-foot-wide mansion owned by Edward Thaw (the half-brother of millionaire Harry K. Thaw who murdered Stanford Wh...
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Friday, March 8, 2024

Emery Roth & Sons' 1950 40 Park Avenue

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  As the Great Depression waned, in 1938 Samuel Rudin's Northwest Realty Corporation hired the architectural firm of Emery Roth & So...
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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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