Monday, March 25, 2013

The Lost Franklin Savings Bank -- 42nd St and 8th Avenue

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The Inland Architect and News Record published a photograph of the newly-completed building in 1901.  A bronze bust of Franklin would soo...
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Saturday, March 23, 2013

The 1849 Thomas Egleston House -- No. 10 5th Avenue

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One of the last remaining lower 5th Avenue mansions, the Egleston house retains much architectural detail despite commercial conversion. ...
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Friday, March 22, 2013

The 1904 Holland Hotel -- 396-397 West Street

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Years of paint are slowly peeling away, exposing the buff-colored brick -- photo by Alice Lum In the early 1890s the Greenwich Village r...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

The J. J. Van Alen House -- No. 15 East 65th St.

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photo by Alice Lum It took spunk to stand up to William Backhouse Astor and even more nerve to defy his wife, the indomitable Caroline...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

The 1930 Horn & Hardardt Bldg -- 2710-2714 Broadway

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On November 14, 1912 the New-York Tribune announced that "Joseph V. Horn, of Douglasville, Penna, and Frank Hardart, of Philadelphi...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

The D. Maitland Armstrong House - No. 58 W. 10th Street

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photo by Alice Lum By the 1830s modest brick homes were being erected along West 10 th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.    Among...
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Monday, March 18, 2013

The Lost J. D. Rockefeller Jr. House -- 10 West 54th Street

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image from the collection of the Rockefeller Archive Center. While other millionaires were building ostentatious mansions that spread northw...
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