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Showing posts with label west 106th street. Show all posts
Showing posts with label west 106th street. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Geo. F. Pelham's 1926 310 West 106th Street

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  image via corcoran.com Born in Canada, George Frederick Pelham was eight years old when his architect father, George Brown Pelham, moved t...
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Neville & Bagge's 1895 215 through 219 West 106th Street

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  Real estate developer Walter D. Starr had big plans for his newly-acquired vacant lot on West 106th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Br...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Sadly Abused - the 1893 Power Bros. Building, 248 West 106th Street

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  The building's quaint late Victorian personality has been successfully obliterated by metal panels.   Around 1893 a 25-foot wide, two-...
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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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