Thursday, August 25, 2022

The Amazingly Transformed 45 East 74th Street

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  Surprisingly, the pristine Victorian facade is only about 20 years old.  photograph by the author In 1879 architect James E. Ware designed...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

The Former Stables at 15 East 13th Street

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  As late as 1859, a 20-foot-wide house stood at 15 East 13th Street, between Fifth Avenue and University Place.  But around 1861 the Smith ...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022

The George A. Archer House - 307 West 82nd Street

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  A split stoop is shared by 307 and 309 (left) West 82nd Street, leading to their side-by-side entrances.  (The lamp post handily marks the...
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Monday, August 22, 2022

The Lost Madison Avenue Temple - Madison Ave and 65th Street

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  from The Decorator & Furnisher, October 1885 (copyright expired) Congregation B'nai Jeshurun ("Children of Jeshurun"), i...
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Saturday, August 20, 2022

Horace Ginsbern's 1938 155 and 165 West 20th Street

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  Horace Ginsbern was, apparently, a take-charge sort of man.  The principal in the architectural firm Horace Ginsbern & Associates, he ...
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Friday, August 19, 2022

The Morris K. Jessup House - 111 East 19th Street

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  In 1855, former Congressman and New York State Attorney General Thomas J. Oakley erected two narrow, Anglo-Italian houses at 65 and 67 Eas...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

Rouse & Goldstone's 1907 810 Broadway

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  The Thomas Faye family had purchased the land at 810 Broadway in 1820.  By the 1890's their former residence, like the other once eleg...