Thursday, July 21, 2011

James Renwick's Masterful 1846 Grace Church

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Grace Church before the addition of Catherine Lorillard Wolfe's chantry in the south lawn -- photo  from the collection of the New Yo...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

The 1890 Romanesque Wilbraham Hotel -- 1 West 30th Street

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photo by Alice Lum  The number of unmarried men in New York City skyrocketed between 1870 and 1890, when approximately 45 percent of the...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

The 1896 Beaux Arts Pierrepont Building - 103 Fifth Avenue

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photo by Alice Lum  Around 1855 Edwards Pierrepont and Marshall O. Roberts built adjoining four-story brownstone houses, each 29 feet wi...
Monday, July 18, 2011

Saloon to Mission to Nightclub -- No. 290 8th Avenue

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When exactly the broad red brick Federal style building at No. 290 8th Avenue was converted to accommodate a store or saloon on the first f...
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Saturday, July 16, 2011

A Marble Palazzo for a Piano Store -- No. 433 Fifth Avenue

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Although the millionaire Theron Butler had died in his brownstone mansion at 433 Fifth Avenue in 1886, the house was still referred to ...
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Friday, July 15, 2011

An 1893 Moorish Fantasy -- No. 256 Fifth Avenue

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photo by Alice Lum In the 1870s West 23rd Street from Fifth Avenue to Eighth Avenue had taken over as the entertainment district of Manh...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

The 1927 Art Moderne First Nat'l City Bank of New York -- 415 Broadway

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415 Broadway shortly after construction.  The building embodied the principals of the new Art Deco and Art Moderne styles -- photo from au...
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