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Showing posts with label schneider and herter. Show all posts
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Friday, June 9, 2023

Schneider & Herter's 1889 229 East 10th Street

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  In the 1840s, the block of East 10th Street between First and Second Avenues was lined with elegant four-story brick homes.  But the waves...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

The Orienta - 302 West 79th Street

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Pretending to be stone, the rusticated piers framing the bowed bays are in reality, brick. The residents and developers of the Upper ...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Vestiges of Style - The Queen Anne Group at West End Ave and 102nd Street

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The houses as they appeared in February 1893.  The corner house, No. 858 West End Ave., was the showpiece.  Real Estate Record, February ...
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Wednesday, May 3, 2017

"Friends" and Enemies - 90 Bedford Street

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As the 19th century drew to a close, Greenwich Village was no longer the quiet hamlet it had been nearly a century earlier.  Apartment ...
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Thursday, March 23, 2017

The M. Rosendorff & Son Building - Nos. 277-279 Grand Street

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Exactly ten years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Grand Street was laid out; its exceptional width earning it its...
Thursday, November 10, 2016

"Working Their Lives Away" -- The 1890 Nos. 67-73 Spring Street

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Philip Goerlitz acted both as real estate developer and builder for his many projects in the 1880s and '90s.   Many were tenements i...
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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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