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Showing posts with label neo-classic architecture. Show all posts
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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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Monday, October 31, 2022

The Lost Mutual Bank Building - 49-51 West 33rd Street

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  The scale of the building can be judged by the figures standing on the steps .  photograph by Irving Underhill, from the collection of the...
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Saturday, December 4, 2010

The Monumental 1913 James Farley Post Office Building

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The Post Office Building in 1922.   from the collection of the New York Public Library In 1910, the year that McKim, Mead and White’s...
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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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