Showing posts with label victorian architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label victorian architecture. Show all posts
Monday, July 7, 2014

The Lost Wm. A. Wheelock Mansion -- 661 West 158th Street

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In 1937 a Victorian garden statue stands as a reminder of a graceful period in the mansions history photograph by Berenice Abbott fr...
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Thursday, May 30, 2013

The Samuel J. Tilden House -- No. 15 Gramercy Park

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photo by Alice Lum While the young Samuel Jones Tilden was studying law at Yale University and then at New York University in the 1830...
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Saturday, December 24, 2011

The 1876 David S. Brown Soap Store Building -- 8 Thomas Street

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photo by Alice Lum Jarvis Morgan Slade learned his trade in the architectural offices of Edward H. Kendall.  After opening his own busine...
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Monday, December 6, 2010

Blackwell Island's Chapel of the Good Shepherd

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By the second half of the 19th Century, Blackwell’s Island housed many of the city’s charitable institutions; among them the Smallpox Hospi...
Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Calvert Vaux's 1888 14th Ward Industrial School

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John Jacob Astor III was interested in making money. His wife, Charlotte, was interested in spreading it around – much of it going to her fa...
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Monday, March 29, 2010

The Arnold, Constable Dry Goods Store

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Arnold, Constable & Co in 1894 -- King's Photographic Views of New York ( copyright expired) Actually, the original entr...