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747 building histories
Commercial · 1929-31
1 Wall Street, New York, NY
Constructed in 1929-31 as the corporate headquarters of the Irving Trust Company, this 50-story, limestone faced skyscraper is situated on what was considered the "most expensive real estate in New York," the...
Read the storyResidential · 1899-1901
1009 5th Avenue, New York, NY
This handsome Fifth Avenue mansion, prominently located at the southeast corner of Eighty-second Street, was built during the years 1899 to 1901. It is one of the few surviving houses which once formed part of...
Read the storyResidential · 1911-12
1025 Park Avenue, New York, NY
The 1025 Park Avenue House was constructed in 1911-12 for the well-known composer of light opera and popular music, Reginald DeKoven and his wife Anna. The house is a rare surviving mansion from the period...
Read the storyResidential · 1898-99
103 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
The 103 Riverside Drive House, originally designed by well-known architect and developer Clarence F. True, was built on speculation in 1898- 99 as one house of a picturesque group of six houses on the...
Read the storyResidential · 1898-99
104 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
The 104 Riverside Drive House, originally designed by well-known architect and developer Clarence F. True, was built on speculation in 1898- 99 as one house of a picturesque group of six houses on the...
Read the storyResidential · 1898-99
105 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
The 105 Riverside Drive House, originally designed by well-known architect and developer Clarence F. True, was built on speculation in 1898- 99 as one house of a picturesque group of six houses on the...
Read the storyResidential · 1898
109 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
The 107-109 Riverside Drive House, originally designed by well-known architect and developer Clarence F. True, was built on speculation in 1898- 99 as one house of a picturesque group of six houses on the...
Read the storyResidential · 1909-10
11 E 70th Street, New York, NY
The handsome house at 11 East 70th Street was built in 1909-10 and designed in the French Classical manner, one of the prominent styles during this period. The architect, John H. Duncan is best known for his...
Read the storyResidential · 1902-03
11 E 90th Street, New York, NY
This elegant residence, built in 1902-03 for M. Louise McAlpin, was designed by the New York City architectural firm of Barney & Chapman. In keeping with their training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris,...
Read the storyLibrary · 1907-08
203 E 115th Street, New York, NY
To come unexpectedly upon the 115th Street Branch of the New York Public Library on a residential street occupied primarily by four and five-story brown- stones, is to experience a pleasant surprise. Such is...
Read the storyResidential · 1922-23
116 East 80th Street, New York, NY
This residence of elegant simplicity designed in the Federal Style is four stories high, with an English basement. It is built of red brick laid in Flemish bond. The rather austere character of the building is...
Read the storyResidential · 1832
116 Sullivan Street, New York, NY
The front of this Federal style house is of red brick, laid up in Flemish bond. The original pitched roof was doubtless of slate but the house was raised two stories in 1872. The present window lintels, with...
Read the storyResidential · 1863
12 West 129th Street, New York, NY
The house at 12 West 129th Street, erected c.1863 when the village of Harlem was undergoing development as a suburban center, stands as a rare survivor of Harlem's early history, prior to its rapid development...
Read the storyResidential · 1860
120 East 92nd Street, New York, NY
This nineteenth century frame house, on a side street, comes as a delightful surprise. Time and change have passed it by, as well as the very similar frame house that adjoins it to the east. It has a front...
Read the storyResidential · Unknown
122 East 92nd Street, New York, NY
This mid-nineteenth century frame house, on a side street of New York's upper east side, unchanged by time, comes as a delightful surprise to the passerby. Set back from the street, it retains an ample, well...
Read the storyCarriage House · 1864
126 West 18th Street, New York, NY
The stable building at 126 West 18th Street is one of nine remaining brick-fronted stables from an original row of thirteen erected in 1864-66. The only survivor of the three initial stables in the group, the...
Read the storyResidential · 1900-01
1261 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
This grand apartment house, built in 1900-01, is a fine example of the French Beaux-Arts style which was popular at that time for large buildings such as this and for single-family dwellings. Gilbert Brown, a...
Read the storyResidential · 1828-29
127 Macdougal Street, New York, NY
The rowhouses at 127, 129 and 131 MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village were constructed c. 1828-29 in the Federal style, characterized by its 2-1/2-story height, Flemish bond brickwork, low stoop with...
Read the storyResidential · 1896-97
13 West 54th Street, New York, NY
This handsome town house was built in 1896-97 as one of a pair with No. 15 West 54th Street for William Murray, a prominent businessman from Larchmont, New York. Designed in a Renaissance-inspired style by...
Read the storyResidential · 1927-28
130 W 30th Street, New York, NY
Designed by the preeminent architect Cass Gilbert, and constructed in 1927-28, the 130 West 30th Street Building was built to accommodate offices, showrooms and manufacturing space. The 18-story structure was...
Read the storyResidential · 1907-08
130 West 57th Street, New York, NY
Built in 1907-08 to provide living and working facilities for artists, the studio building at 130 West 57th Street is a rare surviving example of this unusual building type, and a reminder of the early...
Read the storyCarriage House · 1864-65
132 West 18th Street, New York, NY
The two stables at Nos. 130 and 132 West 18th Street — units of an original row of thirteen brick-fronted stables erected in 1864-66 of which nine survive — were joined in 1907 to create the present building....
Read the storyResidential · 1834
131 Charles Street, New York, NY
This charming, early Nineteenth Century two-story brick house with peaked roof, delicate dormers and high basement, is one of the few remaining examples of the small comfortable Federal street houses, once so...
Read the storyResidential · 1905-07
135 East 66th Street, New York, NY
This distinguished eleven-story deluxe apartment house reflects the influence of Italian Renaissance palazzo in its two principal elevations facing the street, it is an important expression of luxury apartment...
Read the storyResidential · 1890-91
1321 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
1321 Madison Avenue, at the northeast corner of 93rd Street, is a most striking Queen Anne style rowhouse, one of an original row of five, built in 1890-91. Real estate developer James v. S. Woolley...
Read the storyResidential · 1907
134 East 67th Street, New York, NY
This distinguished apartment house composed in the manner of an imposing Italian Renaissance palazzo was designed as a pendant to the nearly identical adjacent apartment house, already a designated New York...
Read the storyCarriage House · 1865-66
136 West 18th Street, New York, NY
The stable building at 136 West 18th Street is one of nine remaining brick-fronted stables from an original row of thirteen erected in 1864-66. Designed in a round-arched utilitarian style related to the...
Read the storyCommercial · 1910-12
14 Wall Street, New York, NY
The 14 Wall Street Building, with its distinctive pyramidal roof, is one of the great towers that define the lower Manhattan skyline. Located in the heart of the financial district, the building was erected in...
Read the storyCommercial · 1964-68
89 Cedar Street, New York, NY
A critically-acclaimed example of mid-20th-century modernism, the former Marine Midland Bank Building at 140 Broadway was completed in early 1968. Architect Gordon Bunshaft, of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, was...
Read the storyCarriage House · 1865-66
140 West 18th Street, New York, NY
The stable building at 140 West 18th Street is one of nine remaining brick-fronted stables from an original row of thirteen erected in 1864-66. Designed in a round-arched utilitarian style related to the...
Read the storyResidential · 1907-08
140 West 57th Street, New York, NY
Built in 1907-08 to provide living and working facilities for artists, the studio building at 140 West 57th Street is a rare surviving example of this unusual building type, and a reminder of the early...
Read the storyResidential · 1830-31
143 Allen Street, New York, NY
The Federal style row house at 143 Allen Street was constructed c. 1830-31 as a speculative investment by George Sutton, a ship captain and counting house merchant. Originally part of a group of six similar...
Read the storyCommercial · 1895-96
144 West 14th Street, New York, NY
144 West 14th Street is a grandly-proportioned Renaissance Revival-style loft building.1 Faced with limestone, tan brick and terra cotta, it was designed by the architects Brunner & Tryon in 1895-96. Seven...
Read the storyResidential · 1827
145 8th Avenue, New York, NY
These modest rowhouses at 145-147 Eighth Avenue are a pair of highly intact 3 1/2 story Federal style houses constructed 1827 for owner Aaron Dexter, a dry goods merchant, who retained ownership of the...
Read the storyResidential · 1886-87
146 East 89th Street, New York, NY
No. 146 East 89th Street is one of six picturesque houses (Nos. 146-156) remaining from an original group of ten. Designed by the notable architectural firm of Hubert, Pirsson & Co. in the Queen Anne style,...
Read the storyResidential · 1909-10
15 E 70th Street, New York, NY
The handsome house at 15 East 70th Street was built in 1909-10 and was designed in the French Classical manner, although it displays elements of Italian Renaissance design at the first and fifth floors. The...
Read the storyResidential · 1927-28
15 E 90th Street, New York, NY
This charming neo-Federal house was built in 1927-28 and designed by architect Mott B. Schmidt. Schmidt had also used this popular style several years earlier in the Sutton Place development.
Read the storyHospital · 1889-90
151 East 67th Street, New York, NY
This very handsome neo-Italian Renaissance style building at 149-151 East 67th Street was built in 1889-90 to serve as a dispensary for Mount Sinai Hospital. The hospital originally faced the dispensary from...
Read the storyResidential · 1858
152 East 38th Street, New York, NY
Elegance and charm are abundantly evident in the architectural quality of this three-story Federal style brick house. Separated from the street by a spacious forecourt and an inner landscaped garden, this...
Read the storyCommercial · 1912-13
154 West 14th Street, New York, NY
The 154 West 14th Street Building (1912-13), a 12-story speculative loft structure constructed for lawyer-banker and real estate developer Leslie R. Palmer, was the first completed New York City design by...
Read the storyResidential · 1861
157 East 78th Street, New York, NY
There is a charm and sparkle in the appearance of this four-story red brick house with painted stone trim at 157 East 78th Street* Standing next to two other similar row houses and sharing a party wall with...
Read the storyResidential · 1838
159 Charles Street, New York, NY
Constructed around 1838 for merchant Henry J. Wyckoff, 159 Charles Street is significant as a relatively rare surviving residential building of the early period of development of the far western section of...
Read the storyResidential · 1861
158 East 78th Street, New York, NY
There is a charm and sparkle in the appearance of this three-story red brick house with painted stone trim at 159 East 78th Street. Standing between two other similar row houses and sharing party walls with...
Read the storyResidential · 1852-53
160 East 92nd Street, New York, NY
A rare surviving remnant of the early years of the village of Yorkville, the 160 East 92nd Street House (1852-53) is a two-and-a-half-story vernacular clapboard dwelling which displays elements of the Greek...
Read the storyCarriage House · 1896-97
161 East 73rd Street, New York, NY
The 161 East 73rd Street Building and its twin at No. 163 are fine examples of the type of private carriage house built during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in this area of Manhattan. They were...
Read the storyResidential · 1861
161 East 78th Street, New York, NY
There is a charm and sparkle in the appearance of this three-story red brick house with painted stone trim at 161 East 78th Street. Standing at the eastern end of two other similar row houses and sharing party...
Read the storyCarriage House · 1896-97
163 East 73rd Street, New York, NY
The 163 East 73rd Street Building and its twin at No. 161 are fine examples of the type of private carriage house built during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in this area of Manhattan. They were...
Read the storyCommercial · 1836
163 John Street, New York, NY
In 1836, when this building was erected, its address was Curling Slip, rather than John Street. The extra width of John Street between Front Street and the East River reflects the earlier existence of the...
Read the storyResidential · 1861
165 East 78th Street, New York, NY
Subdued charm and warm mellowness pervade these three-story red brick houses with painted stone trim at 163 and 165 East 78th Street. Standing next to three other row houses and sharing a party wall with their...
Read the storyCarriage House · 1903-04
165 East 73rd Street, New York, NY
The 165 East 73rd Street Building and its twin at No. 167 are fine examples of the type of private carriage house built during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in this area of Manhattan. They were...
Read the storyCommercial · 1811
165 John Street, New York, NY
In the minutes of the Common Council, June 22, 1807, we find George Codwise, Jr. and Peter Schermerhorn engaged in negotiation with the City in connection with wharfage and development rights at the foot of...
Read the storyCarriage House · 1883-84
166 East 73rd Street, New York, NY
No. 166 East 73rd Street is a fine example of private carriage house design of the late 19th century in Manhattan. Constructed in 1883- 84 for Henry Gurdon Marquand, No. 166 was designed by Richard Morris Hunt...
Read the storyCarriage House · 1899
168 East 73rd Street, New York, NY
The 168 East 73rd Street Building is a fine example of the type of private carriage house built during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the area of Manhattan. Constructed in 1899 for William Baylis,...
Read the storyResidential · 1864
17 E 128th Street, New York, NY
The 17 East 128th Street House is one of a few surviving frame houses in Harlem which date from the period in the city's history when Harlem was still a rural village and not legally part of the City of New...
Read the storyResidential · 1909-11
17 E 70th Street, New York, NY
The handsome house at 17 East 70th Street was built in 1909-11 and designed in the French Classical manner, one of the prominent styles during this period. The architect, Arthur C. Jackson was with the...
Read the storyResidential · 1917-19
17 E 90th Street, New York, NY
his dignified residence, built between 1917 and 1919 and designed by F. Burrall Hoffman, Jr., combines a modified neo-Georgian style with an arcaded loggia in the continental tradition.
Read the storyResidential · 1846
17 West 16th Street, New York, NY
This handsome Greek Revival house, built about 1846 in the once fashionable Union Square neighborhood, is one of a row of nine townhouses, four of which survive. The houses were planned and probably built by...
Read the storyCarriage House · 1890-91
170 East 73rd Street, New York, NY
The 170 East 73rd Street Building is a fine example of the type of private carriage house built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in this area of Manhattan. Constructed between 1890 and 1891 for Frank...
Read the storyCarriage House · 1860
171 East 73rd Street, New York, NY
The 171 East 73rd Street Building is one of only two surviving Italianate style rowhouses on East 73rd Street between Lexington and Third Avenues. The house was originally one of a row of six modest brick...
Read the storyCommercial · 1849-50
171 John Street, New York, NY
n 1849-50, when this building was erected, this part of what is now John Street was known as Burling Slip. This building was 31-35 Burling Slip. The architect/builder cannot be ascertained, but the property...
Read the storyCarriage House · 1893
173 East 73rd Street, New York, NY
The 173 East 73rd Street Building is a fine example of the type of private carriage house built during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in this area of Manhattan. Designed in the late Romanesque Revival...
Read the storyCarriage House · 1889
174 East 73rd Street, New York, NY
The 172-174 East 73rd Street Building is a fine example of the type of private carriage house built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in this area of Manhattan. Constructed in 1889 for Frank P....
Read the storyCarriage House · 1860
175 East 73rd Street, New York, NY
The 175 East 73rd Street Building is one of only two surviving Italianate style rowhouses on East 73rd Street between Lexington and Third Avenues. The house was originally one of a row of six modest brick...
Read the storyCommercial · 1877
175 West Broadway, New York, NY
Erected in 1877 for the heirs of the Estate of Jerome B. King to the designs of the Newark architectural firm of Scott & Umbach, the 175 West Broadway Building is an exceptional example of...
Read the storyCommercial · 1840
176 John Street, New York, NY
In 1840, when this building was erected, its address was Burling Slip, rather than John Street. The extra width of John Street between Front Street and the East River reflects the earlier existence of the...
Read the storyCarriage House · 1902
178 East 73rd Street, New York, NY
The 178 East 73rd Street Building is a fine example of the type of private carriage house built during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in this area of Manhattan. Constructed in 1902 for John Connors,...
Read the storyCarriage House · 1906
179 East 73rd Street, New York, NY
The 177-179 East 73rd Street Building is a fine example of the type of commercial garage built in New York City during the early years of the 20th century, at a time when automobiles were beginning to supplant...
Read the storyCarriage House · 1890-91
180 East 73rd Street, New York, NY
The 180 East 73rd Street Building is a fine example of the type of private carriage house built during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in this area of Manhattan. Constructed between 1890 and 1891 for...
Read the storyCarriage House · 1890
182 East 73rd Street, New York, NY
The 182 East 73rd Street Building is an example of the type of commercial stable built during the 19th century throughout New York City. Constructed in 1890 to house the S. Kayton & Co. Stable, the building...
Read the storyCommercial · 1836
189 Front Street, New York, NY
This building was erected in the same year as the corner building (159-163 John Street), matches it exactly, and, like the corner, replaces an earlier building owned by Anson O. Phelps. We may assume that...
Read the storyResidential · 1909-10
19 E 70th Street, New York, NY
This extremely elegant and architecturally distinguished residence was designed by Thornton Chard (1873-1951), a New York architect, in a simplified but sophisticated version of early Italian Renaissance style.
Read the storyResidential · 1846
19 West 16th Street, New York, NY
Located on the north side of West 16th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, No. 19 West 16th Street is a distinctive Greek Revival rowhouse constructed about 1846, at a time when the Union Square area was...
Read the storyResidential · 1833
190 Grand Street, New York, NY
Built c.1833, the rowhouse at 190 Grand Street was built as a grand, late Federal style residence at a time when this neighborhood, now known as Little Italy, was an affluent residential quarter. Evidence...
Read the storyCommercial · Prior 1793
191 Front Street, New York, NY
This completely simple five-story brick warehouse building has nonetheless a very handsome first floor supported on square cast iron columns which once had Corinthian capitals and which display ornamental...
Read the storyResidential · 1833
192 Grand Street, New York, NY
Built c.1833, the rowhouse at 192 Grand Street was built as a grand, late Federal style residence at a time when this neighborhood, now known as Little Italy, was an affluent residential quarter. Evidence...
Read the storyCommercial · 1811-12
195 Front Street, New York, NY
Forming a part of Schermerhorn Row, this handsome Federal style building is architecturally similar to it and is of equal height, with the uniform cornice line connecting it with the equally handsome...
Read the storyPolice · 1886-87
153 E 67th Street, New York, NY
Solid, dignified, indeed almost stern, the Nineteenth Precinct Police Station is a proud reminder of the role of the late l9th-century police station in representing order and authority in rapidly growing and...
Read the storyCommercial · 1926-28
2 Park Avenue, New York, NY
The colorful and striking 2 Park Avenue Building, built in 1926-28 on lower Park Avenue, was designed by one of New York’s foremost architects of the first half of the twentieth century, Ely Jacques Kahn....
Read the storyResidential · 1809
2 White Street, New York, NY
Number Two White Street is one of those very rare brick wood houses in New York which still retains its gambrel roof and original dormer windows. Three rectangular second story windows have excellent splayed...
Read the storyResidential · 1834
203 Prince Street, New York, NY
This handsome townhouse at No. 203 Prince Street was built in 1833-34. Its style is transitional from Federal to Greek Revival. The original owner, John P. Haff, listed in the city directories as a leather...
Read the storyResidential · 1861-65
208 East 78th Street, New York, NY
This charming house at No. 208 is one of a row of six surviving houses (Nos. 208-218) built between 1861 and 1865 as a speculative venture for several Successive developers. As such, they may be seen as...
Read the storyResidential · 1918-19
21 E 70th Street, New York, NY
The simple but elegant house at 21 East 70th Street was built in 1918-19 and was designed by William J. Rogers in a sophisticated manner based on modified classical traditions.
Read the storyResidential · 1846
21 West 16th Street, New York, NY
Located on the north side of West 16th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, No. 21 West 16th Street is a distinctive Greek Revival rowhouse constructed about 1846, at a time when the Union Square area was...
Read the storyCommercial · 1929-31
21 West Street, New York, NY
The thirty-one story, brick Art Deco office building at 21 West Street was constructed in 1929-31 to the designs of the prolific architectural firm of Starrett & Van Vleck.
Read the storyCommercial · 1856-57
23 Park Place, New York, NY
Built in 1856-57 for the dry goods firm Lathrop, Ludington & Co. by the architect Samuel Adams Warner, the five-story party-wall building at 23 and 25 Park Place extends through the block to 20 and 22 Murray...
Read the storyResidential · 1846
23 West 16th Street, New York, NY
Located on the north side of West 16th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, No. 23 West 16th Street is a distinctive Greek Revival rowhouse constructed about 1845, at a time when the Union Square area was...
Read the storyPolice · 1907-08
138 West 30th Street, New York, NY
The 23rd Police Precinct Station House, located on the south side of West 30th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, was erected in 1907-08 to the design of R. Thomas Short, who is best known as a designer...
Read the storyResidential · 1939-40
240 Central Park South, New York, NY
240 Central Park South Apartments built in 1939-40 to the design of Mayer & Whittlesey is a significant and innovative complex that represents the transition between 1930s Art Deco style apartment towers with...
Read the storyResidential · 1804
25 Harrison Street, New York, NY
This house is one of six Federal houses which compose a group that is unique in New York City. Nowhere else is there a survival of this many houses of this style-all of which retain their original pitched...
Read the storyResidential · 1892-93
254 West 102nd Street, New York, NY
The 254 West 102nd Street House is one of an intact group of four residences designed by the architectural firm of Schneider & Herter and built by the firm of Schneider & Company as a speculative venture. The...
Read the storyCommercial · 1856-57
260 Canal Street, New York, NY
No. 254-260 Canal Street, at the southwest corner of Canal and Lafayette Streets, is one of the earliest surviving cast-iron buildings in New York City. Built in 1856/57 for George Bruce, a leader of the...
Read the storyResidential · 1844
26 Jones Street, New York, NY
Twenty-six Jones Street is a good example of a simple late Greek Revival three-story row house with a low basement. It is one of three similar houses located together in the same block. The lintels ever the...
Read the storyResidential · 1827
263 Henry Street, New York, NY
This four-story modified Federal town house retains at first floor and basement levels much of its fine original appearance. Some of the details such as the stair rails and the two tall windows beside the door...
Read the storyResidential · 1827
265 Henry Street, New York, NY
This handsome Federal three-story town house with basement retains much of its original appearance, including its original doorway and iron railing in front. The building is a good example of Federal...
Read the storyResidential · 1834
267 Henry Street, New York, NY
This handsome Georgian Eclectic three-story town house with basement represents the remodelling of an 1834 house done about 1910. As seen today, it is Georgian Eclectic in style despite the fact that the...
Read the storyCommercial · 1930-31
275 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Rising 43 stories in height and completed in 1931, 275 Madison Avenue is an outstanding Art Deco skyscraper dating from the end of New York’s 1920s and early-1930s skyscraper boom. Designed by noted architect...
Read the storyResidential · 1844
28 Jones Street, New York, NY
Twenty-eight Jones Street is a good example of a simple late Greek Revival three-story row house with a low basement. It is one of three similar houses located together in the same block. The lintels ever the...
Read the storyResidential · 1829
281 East Broadway, New York, NY
This relatively modest Federal style rowhouse is a rare survivor of its type and era. Built about 1829 as one of a group of three for Isaac Ludlam, a New York City surveyor, the house occupies a twenty-foot...
Read the storyCommercial · 1871-72
287 Broadway, New York, NY
Prominently situated on a comer site, the 287 Broadway Building is notable for its combination of the Italianate and French Second Empire styles as executed in cast iron, and one of the few surviving examples...
Read the storyPolice · 1892-93
179 East 104th Street, New York, NY
The 28th Police Precinct Station House, located on the north side of East 104th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues, was built in 1892-93 to the design of Nathaniel D. Bush. Appointed Architect to the...
Read the storyResidential · 1827
29 Harrison St, New York, NY
This house is one of six Federal houses which compose a group that is unique in New York City. Nowhere else is there a survival of this many houses of this style - all of which retain their original pitched...
Read the storyResidential · 1844
30 Jones Street, New York, NY
Thirty Jones Street is a good example of a simple late Greek Revival three-story row house with a low basement. It is one of three similar houses located together in the same block. The lintels ever the...
Read the storyCommercial · 1856-57
311 Broadway, New York, NY
This distinguished commercial building located on the west side of Broadway between Duane and Thomas Streets was erected c. 1856- 57 by John and Daniel Jackson Steward. The building is a fine example of...
Read the storyResidential · 1857
311 East 58th Street, New York, NY
This charming two-story and basement house with painted brick walls and stone trim has a clean scrubbed look that is refreshing to behold. Vernacular in style, it has a small wooden stoops raised four steps...
Read the storyResidential · 1866
312 East 53rd Street, New York, NY
This attractive little wood house, one of a pair, was built for R. V. J. Cunningham in 1866. Simple as it is, it nonetheless reflects faithfully the post-Civil War architecture so much influenced by French...
Read the storyResidential · 1856-57
313 E 58th Street, New York, NY
Set back behind its front yard and half hidden behind a tree growing out through its foundations this charming little two-story house is far removed in time from the traffic speeding past on its way to the...
Read the storyResidential · 1866
314 East 53rd Street, New York, NY
The 314 East 53rd Street House, located on the south side of 53rd Street between First and Second Avenues, was constructed in 1866. It was built, along with its identical neighbor at 312 East 53rd Street, by...
Read the storyResidential · 1892
316 West 85th Street, New York, NY
Situated on the south side of West 85th Street between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive, the distinctive three-story 316 West 85th Street House — one house in a row of six houses — was planned by the noted...
Read the storyCommercial · 1869-70
319 Broadway, New York, NY
Located on the northwest corner of Broadway and Thomas Street, 319 Broadway is a distinguished cast-iron Italianate-style building and the survivor of the mirror-image pair at 317 and 319 Broadway known in...
Read the storyResidential · 1826
32 Dominick Street, New York, NY
The 32 Dominick Street House was one of twelve Federal style brick row houses (nos. 28 to 50) built c. 1826 on the south side of Dominick Street between Hudson and Varick Streets; and was one of five houses...
Read the storyCommercial · 1863-64
333 Broadway, New York, NY
This imposing commercial building at the southwest corner of Broadway and Worth Street, erected for real estate investor Henry Barclay in 1863-64, was originally three store-and-loft buildings that have been...
Read the storyResidential · 1853
326 E 18th Street, New York, NY
A charming row of three brick Italianate residences (Nos. 326-330). This low-lying two-story row is set far back from the street behind exceptionally deep front yards, a great rarity in Manhattan.
Read the storyResidential · 1890-91
329 West 85th Street, New York, NY
Constructed in 1890-91 for the builder-speculator Perez M. Stewart at a time when the blocks in the Eighties west of Broadway were first developed is a row of five nearly identical houses on the north side of...
Read the storyResidential · 1898-99
332 West 83rd Street, New York, NY
The 332 West 83rd Street House, designed by well-known architect and developer Clarence F. True, was built on speculation in 1898-99 as one house of a picturesque group of six houses on the southeast corner of...
Read the storyResidential · 1826
34 Dominick Street, New York, NY
The 34 Dominick Street House was one of twelve Federal style brick row houses (Nos. 28 to 50) built c. 1826 on the south side of Dominick Street between Hudson and Varick Streets; and was one of five houses...
Read the storyResidential · 1892-93
351 Central Park West, New York, NY
The 351 Central Park West House is one of a group of five neo-Renaissance style houses, designed by Gilbert Schellenger and built in 1892-93 for Edward Kilpatrick. It is a component of one of two surviving...
Read the storyResidential · 1892-93
352 Central Park West, New York, NY
The 352 Central Park West House is one of a group of five neo-Renaissance style houses, designed by Gilbert Schellenger and built in 1892-93 for Edward Kilpatrick. It is a component of one of two surviving...
Read the storyResidential · 1841-42
354 West 11th Street, New York, NY
No. 354 West 11th Street is a relatively rare surviving residential building of the early period of the mixed-use development that came to characterize the far western section of Greenwich Village, which was...
Read the storyCommercial · 1852
359 Broadway, New York, NY
No. 359 Broadway, on the west side of Broadway between Leonard and Franklin streets, is a distinguished early Italianate commercial building constructed in 1852, a time when this section of Broadway was the...
Read the storyResidential · 1826
36 Dominick Street, New York, NY
The 36 Dominick Street House was one of twelve Federal style brick row houses (Nos. 28 to 50) built c. 1826 on the south side of Dominick Street between Hudson and Varick Streets; and was one of five houses...
Read the storyCommercial · 1881-82
361 Broadway, New York, NY
No. 361 Broadway, built in 1881-1882 fOr James L. White, was designed by W. Wheeler Smith, a well respected architect active in New York during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. It was one of the...
Read the storyArmory · 1921-24
2360 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The 369th Regiment Armory occupies the eastern half of the block bounded by West 142nd Street and West 143rd Street at 2360 Fifth Avenue, just off the Harlem River Drive. Like other New York City armories...
Read the storyResidential · 1845
37 E 4th St, New York, NY
The dignified Greek Revival residence at No. 37 East 4th Street and the Seabury-TredwelI (Old Merchant's) House at No. 29 are the only houses of note that have survived on this block.
Read the storyCommercial · 1888
380 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
This six-story building standing resolutely on its site is unusally imposing for its mass. It was completed in 1888 when buildings of this size were still considered high. Handsome dark brown brick piers form...
Read the storyResidential · 1828
39 Harrison Street, New York, NY
This house is one of six Federal houses which compose a group that is unique in New York City, Nowhere else is there a survival of this many houses of this style - all of which retain their original pitched...
Read the storyResidential · 1916-17
409 Edgecombe Avenue, New York, NY
Considered Sugar Hill's most prestigious address from the 1930s through the 1950s, the apartment building at 409 Edgecombe Avenue portrays through its illustrious roster of tenants the achievement of...
Read the storyResidential · 1832-33
428 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
This building is one of a group of four remaining town houses which are unified in appearance by a beautifully executed two-story Corinthian colonnade. The group is one of the treasures of our architectural...
Read the storyResidential · 1849-50
437 West 24th Street, New York, NY
This row of houses was erected by Philo V. Beebe, a neighborhood builder, as part of a long row of handsome, mid-19th century three-story houses. Set behind landscaped front yards, 15 feet deep, the row now...
Read the storyResidential · 1906-08
45 E 66th St, New York, NY
The striking apartment house- at 45 East 66th Street stands at the corner of 66th Street and Madison Avenue and Is richly detailed with a profusion of Gothic ornament. The building creates a picturesque and...
Read the storyResidential · 1818-19
480 Greenwich Street, New York, NY
The red brick double building at 480 Greenwich Street/502 Canal Street is part of a rare surviving cluster of early nineteenth-century structures in lower Manhattan on a block partially created on landfill and...
Read the storyResidential · 1823
486 Greenwich Street, New York, NY
The modest rowhouse at No. 486 Greenwich Street was constructed c. 1823 in the Federal style, characterized by its 2-1/2-story height, second-story Flemish bond brickwork and fenestration, peaked roof, and...
Read the storyResidential · 1823
488 Greenwich Street, New York, NY
The modest rowhouse at No. 488 Greenwich Street was constructed c. 1823 in the Federal style, characterized by its 2-1/2-story height, brick cladding, second-story fenestration, peaked roof, and pedimented...
Read the storyResidential · 1846
5 West 16th Street, New York, NY
The bow-fronted house at No. 5 West 16th Street, constructed c. 1846, serves as a distinctive reminder of the period when this section of Manhattan, near Union Square, was a fashionable neighborhood filled...
Read the storyCommercial · 1929-31
500 5th Avenue, New York, NY
Built in 1929-31, Shreve, Lamb & Harmon’s 500 Fifth Avenue Building is a soaring 59-story Art Deco skyscraper, located at the northwest corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue. The building was constructed...
Read the storyResidential · 1841
504 Canal Street, New York, NY
The red brick building at 504 Canal Street is part of a rare surviving cluster of early nineteenth-century structures in lower Manhattan on a block partially created on landfill and located close to the Hudson...
Read the storyResidential · 1826
506 Canal Street, New York, NY
The red brick building at 506 Canal Street is part of a rare surviving cluster of early nineteenth-century structures in lower Manhattan on a block partially created on landfill located close to the Hudson...
Read the storyResidential · 1826
508 Canal Street, New York, NY
The brick building at 508 Canal Street is part of a rare surviving cluster of early nineteenth-century structures in lower Manhattan on a block partially created on landfill located close to the Hudson River...
Read the storyReligious · 1824-25
51 Market Street, New York, NY
The 51 Market Street House is a very fine urban example of the Late Federal Style of architecture. This house exemplifies the architecture of the newly-created Republic, superceding the heavier Georgian Style....
Read the storyResidential · 1827-28
511 Grand Street, New York, NY
Built ca. 1827-28 as an investment property by James Lent and Henry Barclay, the rowhouse at 511 Grand Street is a remarkable, rare surviving example of the Federal-style house in Manhattan. Shaped by the...
Read the storyResidential · 1827-28
513 Grand Street, New York, NY
Built ca. 1827-28 as an investment property by James Lent and Henry Barclay, the rowhouse at 513 Grand Street is a remarkable, rare surviving example of the Federal-style house in Manhattan. The modest,...
Read the storyResidential · 1892
520 West End Avenue, New York, NY
The residence at 520 West End Avenue, commissioned by developer Richard G. Piatt in 1892 and completed that same year for cotton broker John B. Leech and his wife Isabella, is an early, and within the context...
Read the storyCommercial · 1861
55 White Street, New York, NY
Fifty-five White street was commissioned in 1861 by cousins John Eliot and Samuel H. Condict as a store and warehouse for a saddlery business.
Read the storyResidential · 1914-16
555 Edgecombe Avenue, New York, NY
The apartment building at 555 Edgecombe Avenue, built as the Roger Morris Apartments but known simply as "555," has achieved significance as the home of many of New York's successful African-Americans....
Read the storyResidential · 1932
56 E 93rd St, New York, NY
This impressive town house was erected in 1932 as the residence of William Goadby Loew, son-in-law of the banker George P. Baker, whose nearby mansion at 75 East 93rd Street is now the property of the Synod of...
Read the storyCommercial · 1893-94
58 Pine Street, New York, NY
This distinguished Lower Manhattan office building, built in 1893-94 by developer James G. Wallace and designed by his company’s architect Oswald Wirz, is a rare survivor. The building represents a period of...
Read the storyCommercial · 1903-04
574 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
The building at 574 Sixth Avenue, erected by the Knickerbocker Jewelry Company in 1903-04 as the firm's retail store, was built in response to the resurgence of retail activity in the ladies' Mile area around...
Read the storyResidential · 1902-03
63 East 79th Street, New York, NY
The impressive neo-English Classic style town house at 63 East 79th Street was designed in 1902 by architects Adam & Warren for Thatcher M. Adams. The building is representative of the large houses erected on...
Read the storyCommercial · 1857-59
63 Nassau Street, New York, NY
The 5-story, Italianate style cast-iron front facade on the building at No. 63 Nassau Street was almost certainly produced c. 1857-59 by James Bogardus, the pioneer of cast iron architecture in America, making...
Read the storyResidential · 1931
67 E 93rd Street, New York, NY
This charming house was built in 1931 end designed in a modified version of the popular neo-Federal style by the prestigious firm of Delano & Aldrich. It forms a cohesive architectural unit with the larger...
Read the storyResidential · 1907-08
69 East 79th Street, New York, NY
This imposing residence designed by Carrere & Hastings in a late French Baroque style was built between 1907 and 1908 for George and Sarah Rives. The building is representative of the large town houses erected...
Read the storyResidential · 1928-29
69 East 93rd Street, New York, NY
This unusual residence was part of the George F. Baker, Jr. Mansion, an outstanding example of the modified Federal Style, as applied to an early Twentieth Century town house of the first rank. The dignified...
Read the storyArmory · 1904-06
68 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
The Sixty-Ninth Regiment Armory occupies much of the block bounded by 25th and 26th Streets and Lexington and Park Avenues. Like all of the armories built in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,...
Read the storyResidential · 1846
7 West 16th Street, New York, NY
The bow-fronted house at No. 7 West 16th Street, constructed c. 1846, serves as a distinctive reminder of the period when this section of Manhattan, near Union Square, was a fashionable neighborhood filled...
Read the storyResidential · 1899-1900
7 West 54th Street, New York, NY
This elegant residence was built in 1899-1900 for Philip Lehman, a prominent New York banker. Designed in the French Beaux-Arts style by architect John H. Duncan, it is a distinguished example of the...
Read the storyTransit · 1904
72nd Street & Broadway, New York, NY
The 72nd Street Subway Kiosk, or Control House, which occupies a prominent site at the intersection of Broadway and 72nd Street, is one of only three such structures surviving in the city. Built to serve New...
Read the storyCommercial · c. 1865
75 Murray Street, New York, NY
Conspicuous for its fine design and structural details, this five-story commercial building is a good example of the Italianate style of cast-iron architecture. This strikingly handsome facade, with its...
Read the storyResidential · 1819
83 Sullivan St, New York, NY
This Federal style house, and its neighbor No. 85, have unusually fine door ways which were generally the most important architectural features of the houses of this period. Elegant and understated they typify...
Read the storyCommercial · 1861
85 Leonard Street, New York, NY
The building at 85 Leonard Street possesses unique historic significance of one of the few remaining works of James Bogardus, and his only surviving building in New York City. In 1818 Bogardus erected the...
Read the storyResidential · 1819
85 Sullivan St, New York, NY
This Federal style house, and its neighbor No. 83, have unusually fine doorways which were generally the most important architectural features of the houses of this period. Elegant and understated, they typify...
Read the storyResidential · 1892-93
856 West End Avenue, New York, NY
The 856 West End Avenue House is one of an intact group of four residences designed by the architectural firm of Schneider & Herter and built by the firm of Schneider & Company as a speculative venture. The...
Read the storyResidential · 1892-93
858 West End Avenue, New York, NY
The 858 West End Avenue House is one of an intact group of four residences designed by the architectural firm of Schneider & Herter and built by the firm of Schneider & Company as a speculative venture. The...
Read the storyResidential · 1896-98
11 West 54th Street, New York, NY
This distinguished residence was built in 1896-98 for James Junius Goodwin, a prominent New York businessman. Designed in the neo-Georgian style by the firm of McKim, Mead & White, it is a hand-some reminder...
Read the storyCommercial · 1810-30
94 Maiden Lane, New York, NY
The small, elegant cast-iron-fronted mansarded building at 90-94 Maiden lane is the only remaining example in the Financial District of the many Second Empire style commercial buildings constructed in downtown...
Read the storyCommercial · 1811-12
91 South Street, New York, NY
Forming a part of Schermerhorn Row, this Federal style building was remodeled in the eighteen-sixties when it was increased to five stories in height. Today it has lost the heavy bracketed cornice which was...
Read the storyCommercial · 1811-12
92 South Street, New York, NY
Forming a part of Schermerhorn Row, this building with its handsome Flemish bond brickwork, was increased to six stories in height with mansard roof and dormers to make it a hotel. This change took place in...
Read the storyResidential · 1799-1800
94 Greenwich Street, New York, NY
The Federal style rowhouse at No. 94 Greenwich Street in Lower Manhattan was constructed c.1799-1800 as an investment property, right after this block was created through landfill and Greenwich and Rector...
Read the storyCommercial · 1907-08
98 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
Located at the southwest corner of Lafayette and Walker streets, the building at 94-100 Lafayette Street, now called the Avildsen Building, is an impressive early twentieth-century commercial style building...
Read the storyCommercial · 1869
97 Bowery, New York, NY
The 97 Bowery Building is a five-story, 25-footwide, early Italianate style, significantly intact, cast-ironfronted store-and-loft building. Built in 1869 for John P. Jube and designed by architect Peter L.P....
Read the storyResidential · 1910-12
998 5th Avenue, New York, NY
No. 998 Fifth Avenue is a remarkably handsome building - the finest Italian Renaissance style apartment house in New York City. The architects were the prestigious firm of McKim, Mead & White, which at that...
Read the storyResidential · 1799
421 East 61st Street, New York, NY
The charm of this Federal style stone stable converted into a comfortable headquarters for the Colonial Dames is to be found in its superb masonry construction and its excellent proportions. The sharp profiles...
Read the storyReligious · 1922-23
142 West 138th Street, New York, NY
The Abyssinian Baptist Church, built in 1922-23, is the home of one of New York City's oldest church organizations and the second oldest within the family of African-American churches, in Manhattan.
Read the storyEducational · 1858
432 West 44th Street, New York, NY
The Actors Studio building, constructed as a small neighborhood church for the Seventh Associate Presbyterians, shortly after the congregation purchased the land in 1858, is a fine and rare example of a...
Read the storyResidential · 1909-11
57 Park Avenue, New York, NY
This elegant residence was built in 1909-11 for the New York socialite, Mrs. Adelaide Townsend Douglas, in the Murray Hill section of New York. Designed in the French Classic style of Louis XVI by architect....
Read the storyCommercial · 1894-95
76 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
Designed by Manhattan architect George H. Griebel, and constructed in 1894-95, the Ahrens Building is a distinctive example of the Romanesque Revival style successfully adapted to the requirements of a...
Read the storyHotel · 1902
61 West 44th Street, New York, NY
he Algonquin Hotel, which opened its doors in 1902, has played host to generations of famous men and women from the literary and theatrical worlds. Most often associated with the legendary Round Table — the...
Read the storyResidential · 1907-09
182 West 58th Street, New York, NY
Alwyn court is a unique example of an apartment house of the type utilizing Terra- cotta. This is the finest building of its type in New York City. Most high apartment structures at the turn of the century...
Read the storyTheater · 1919-1921
223 West 49th Street, New York, NY
The Ambassador Theater survives today as one of the historic playhouses that symbolize American theater for both New York and the nation. Built shortly after, the end of World War I, the Ambassador was among...
Read the storyResidential · 1898-1900
4 East 54th Street, New York, NY
This former residence of William H. Moore is a fine example of a turn of the century stone townhouse. Its strong Italian Renaissance facade, rich carving and simple window arrangement (fenestration) give the...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1905
120 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
When Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White, designed this handsome Federal Eclectic building in 1905, his client was the Colony Club, the first women's organization in New York City to build itself a club...
Read the storyCommercial · 1907-08
70 Broad Street, New York, NY
The American Bank Note Company Office Building is a distinctive, neo-Classical structure which was built in 1907-08 as the corporate, administrative, and sales headquarters for this important, yet little-known...
Read the storyCommercial · 1916-17
65 Broadway, New York, NY
The 21-story (plus basement), neo-classical American Express Co. Building was constructed in 1916-17 to the design of James L. Aspinwall, of the firm of Renwick, Aspinwall & Tucker, the successor to the...
Read the storyCommercial · 1923-24
40 West 40th Street, New York, NY
The American Radiator Building, a striking twenty-three story black and gold tower, is one of the finest and most significant skyscrapers in Manhattan. Designed by Raymond M. Hood and built in 1923-24, the...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1907-08
507 West Street, New York, NY
The American Seamen's Friend Society Sailors' Home and Institute was constructed in 1907-08 to the handsome neo-Classical style design of architect William A. Boring. He was formerly a partner in Boring &...
Read the storyCommercial · 1894-96
100 Broadway, New York, NY
The American Surety Company Building, a key building in the evolution of the skyscraper, was erected to designs of the eminent architect Bruce Price between 1894 and 1896. Prominently sited at the southeast...
Read the storyCommercial · 1912-16
195 Broadway, New York, NY
The American Telephone & Telegraph Company Building, designed by noted architect William Welles Bosworth and constructed in three phases from 1912 to 1922, is an important example of Greek-inspired...
Read the storyCommercial · 1894-95
150 Nassau Street, New York, NY
The American Tract Society Building, at the southeast corner of Nassau and Spruce Streets, was constructed in 1894-95 to the design of architect R. H. Robertson, who was known for his churches and...
Read the storyCivic · 1869-70
215 East 49th Street, New York, NY
Amster Yard is a picturesque, L-shaped courtyard and is one of the most charming enclosures in the City. Like the exterior of the street facades the brick walls facing the garden have all been altered. The...
Read the storyResidential · 1899-1903
2 East 91st Street, New York, NY
When Andrew Carnegie commissioned the firm of Babb, Cook and Willard to design a new residence for him on upper Fifth Avenue, he envisioned it as being "the most modest, plainest and most roomy house in New...
Read the storyResidential · 1845-47
241 West 14th Street, New York, NY
The Andrew Norwood House is an elegant urban residence designed in a transitional style which combines Greek Revival and Italianate features. It is an outstanding example of this type. Erected between 1845 and...
Read the storyReligious · 1849-50
176 Norfolk Street, New York, NY
The building at 172-176 Norfolk Street is the oldest surviving structure built as a synagogue in New York City. Constructed in 1849-50, it was commissioned for Congregation Anshe Chesed, the third Jewish...
Read the storyTheater · 1924-25
259 West 52nd Street, New York, NY
The ANTA Theater survives today as one of the historic theaters that symbolize American theater for both New York and the nation. Built in the 1924-25, the ARM was constructed for the Theater Guild as a...
Read the storyTheater · 1913-14
253 West 125th Street, New York, NY
The Apollo Theater, built in 1913-14 as Hurtig & Seamon's New (Burlesque) Theater, spanned the two eras of Harlem's entertainment history. The design by architect George Keister displays elements of the...
Read the storyCivic · 1896-1900
27 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Distinguished for its classic beauty, this small marble courthouse represents in a civic building, the epitome of collaboration between architect, sculptor, and mural painter. Classic Eclectic in design, but...
Read the storyResidential · 1881-83
891 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
The Association Residence for Respectable Aged Indigent Females, a prominent feature of the Manhattan Valley neighborhood of Manhattan's Upper West Side, was constructed in 1881-83 for one of New York City's...
Read the storyLibrary · 1849-1881
425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
The Astor Library is one of the most important Victorian public buildings remaining today in New York City. It is a key building in recording the continuum of New York City architecture. This building records...
Read the storyResidential · 1880–1883
8–62 West 130th Street, New York, NY
Astor Row comprises 28 houses on the south side of West 130th Street between Fifth and Lenox avenues. Built in three stages from 1880 to 1883, the development occupied land owned by William Astor. Charles Buek...
Read the storyResidential · 1913-14
49 E 68th Street, New York, NY
This house adjoins and may be considered a part of that outstanding group of neo-Federal townhouses which extends along the west side of Park Avenue, between East 68th and 69th Streets. The houses on Park...
Read the storyCommercial · 1905-13
371 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The dignified B. Altman & Company Building, located at the northeast corner of 34th Street and Fifth Avenue, is a distinguished design by Trowbridge & Livingston and one of the flagship department stores of...
Read the storyCommercial · 1909
1780 Broadway, New York, NY
1780 Broadway was constructed in 1909 as the New York headquarters of the B. F. Goodrich Company, a leading American manufacturer of automobile tires and other rubber products. Since the late 1880s the company...
Read the storyResidential · 1917-19
153 East 63rd Street, New York, NY
The Hatch residence, located on East 63rd Street between Lexington and Third Avenues, is a distinctive example of townhouse design from the period immediately following the First World War. It was commissioned...
Read the storyResidential · 1927-28
140 East 63rd Street, New York, NY
The Barbizon Hotel for Women was built in 1927-28 as a residential hotel and clubhouse for single women, who at that time were moving to New York City in record numbers to take advantage of new professional...
Read the storyCommercial · 1923-27
140 West Street, New York, NY
The Barclay-Vesey Building of the New York Telephone Company (also known as the New York Telephone Building) was the first major work of prominent New York architect Ralph Walker. Constructed in 1923-27 and...
Read the storyTheater · 1928
251 West 47th Street, New York, NY
The Barrymore Theater survives today as one of the historic theater interiors that symbolize American theater for both New York and the nation. Built at the end of the 1920s, the Barrymore was among the...
Read the storyTransit · 1904
State St & Battery Pl, New York, NY
The Battery Park Control House is an entrance and exit for the Bowling Green Station of the Lexington Avenue Interborough Rapid Transit Line. It stands near the original shoreline of Manhattan Island, close to...
Read the storyCommercial · 1880-81
26 East 14th Street, New York, NY
The Baumann Brothers Furniture and Carpets Store was built in 1880-81 for James McCreery , a well-known textiles merchant of Scottish descent. It was designed by the architectural firm of D. & J. Jardine,...
Read the storyCommercial · 1897-99
69 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
This loft building, designed by famous Chicago architect Louis Sullivan with assistance from New York architect Lyndon P. Smith, was constructed in 1897-99 for the United Loan and Investment Company and is...
Read the storyResidential · 1912-13
730 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
The Beaumont Apartments (1912-13), at Riverside Drive and West 150th Street, is a premiere example of the Arts & Crafts style architectural designs of the firm of George & Edward Blum. The firm specialized in...
Read the storyResidential · 1929-30
307 East 44th Street, New York, NY
Designed by Raymond Hood, among the most prominent American architects of the twentieth century, and built in 1929-30, The Beaux-Arts Apartments is one of the earliest examples in New York City to reflect the...
Read the storyEducational · 1928
304 East 44th Street, New York, NY
Founded in 1893 by American architects who had studied at the prestigious Parisian Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects had a profound impact on architectural practice in this country by...
Read the storyCommercial · 1903-04
92 Beaver Street, New York, NY
The 15-story Beaver Building, designed in the neo-Renaissance style by the well-known and prolific firm of Clinton & Russell and built in 1903-04, was commissioned by the Century Realty Co. as a speculative...
Read the storyTheater · 1906-07
121 West 44th Street, New York, NY
The Belasco Theater (originally Belasco's Stuyvesant) was built in 1906-07 as the ideal playhouse of David Belasco. Actor, dramatist, manager and director, he was one of the most important personalities in the...
Read the storyCommercial · 1860
465 West Street, New York, NY
The Bell Telephone Laboratories Complex of buildings, occupying an entire city block in Manhattan’s Far West Village, is highly significant as the site of one of the world’s most prestigious telecommunications...
Read the storyCommercial · 1872-73
139 Fulton Street, New York, NY
The Bennett Building, constructed in 1872-73 and enlarged in 1890-92 and 1894, is a major monument to the art of cast-iron architecture. Ten stories high with three fully designed facades fronting Fulton,...
Read the storyReligious · 1850
64 Norfolk Street, New York, NY
Striking in, profile, this smooth-faced stone Synagogue is an interesting example of modified Gothic Revival architecture. Raised on a platform of steps above the street, the recessed center section of the...
Read the storyResidential · 1929-31
228 East Broadway, New York, NY
The Lower East Side of Manhattan is one of New York’s most storied neighborhoods, synonymous with the American immigrant experience and once home to the largest population of Jewish residents in the world. The...
Read the storyReligious · 1826
7 Willett Street, New York, NY
This severely plain building of the late Federal Period is one of the few of its type remaining in New York City. The simple exterior, built of cut stone, is pleasing with its great strength and dignity. The...
Read the storyRecreational · 1895-97
325 East 73rd Street, New York, NY
Bohemian National Hall (Nirodni Budova) is a rare survivor of the social halls built in the nineteenth century for New York City's immigrant ethnic communities. Constructed in two phases in 1895 and 1897, it...
Read the storyTheater · 1912-13
232 West 45th Street, New York, NY
The Booth Theater survives today as one of the historic theaters that symbolize American theater for both New York and the nation. Built in 1912-13, shortly before World War I, to the designs of Henry B....
Read the storyTheater · 1874
330 Bowery, New York, NY
The Bouwerie Lane Theatre is an especially interesting cast-iron building because Henry Engelbert, the architect, designed it in the elaborate styli of the .French Second Empire. The wealth of ornamental...
Read the storyBank · 1900-02
126 Bowery, New York, NY
Completed in 1902, the Bowery Bank of New York is the earliest surviving building by the architectural firm of York & Sawyer in New York City. Located at the northwest corner of the Bowery and Grand Street, it...
Read the storyBank · 1894
130 Bowery, New York, NY
The World's Columbian Exposition, at Chicago in 1893, brought to this country a new classicism. This Bank of 1894 was one of the first to herald the new style making the most of a difficult L-shaped site. The...
Read the storyBank · 1921-23
110 East 42nd Street, New York, NY
The Bowery Savings Bank Building, designed by the distinguished architectural firm of York & Sawyer, was built in 1921-23, with an addition dating from 1931-33. This imposing structure marked the expansion of...
Read the storyCivic · 1771
Bowling Green Park, New York, NY
The simple iron fence around Bowling Green Park is closely associated with the dramatic events of the American Revolution. It was erected in 1771 to protect the equestrian statue of George III, unveiled August...
Read the storyCommercial · 1895-98
11 Broadway, New York, NY
An enormous and beautifully crafted presence at the base of Broadway, facing Bowling Green and extending through the block to Greenwich Street, the seventeen story Bowling Green Offices Building was designed...
Read the storyCommercial · 1900-02
25 Broad Street, New York, NY
Located in the heart of Manhattan's financial district. the Broad Exchange Building was, at the time of its construction in 1900-02, the largest office building with the highest estimated real estate value...
Read the storyTheater · 1917-18
243 West 44th Street, New York, NY
The Broadhurst Theater survives today as one of the historic theaters that symbol ize American theater for both New York and the nation. Built shortly after the end of World War I, the Broadhurst was one of a...
Read the storyCommercial · 1899-1900
277 Broadway, New York, NY
The Broadway Chambers Building is located on the northwest corner of the intersection of Broadway and Chambers Street. Broadway is one of the oldest roads on Manhattan Island and sections of it predate...
Read the storyBridge · 1867-1883
Brooklyn Bridge, New York, NY
In legend and story, in painting and photo, in poetry and prose, the Brooklyn Bridge has inspired and evoked more praise and comment than any other bridge in America. The first to span the East River, this...
Read the storyTheater · 1925-26
262 West 47th Street, New York, NY
The Brooks Atkinson Theater survives today as one of the historic theaters that symbolize American theater for both New York and the nation. Built during the mid-1920s, the Brooks Atkinson was among the...
Read the storyCommercial · 1900-01
29 Washington Place, New York, NY
Now a New York University science building, this neo- Renaissance-style loft building was constructed in 1900-01 for investor Joseph J. Asch. On March 25, 1911, it was the site of one of the worst industrial...
Read the storyReligious · 1908-10
Broadway & West 120th Street, New York, NY
Rising high above the lower buildings adjacent to them, in the quadrangle of the Union Theological Seminary, the Brown Memorial Tower in the southeast corner and the James Tower set in the middle of the...
Read the storyResidential · 1900-01
80 West 40th Street, New York, NY
The Bryant Park Studios constructed in 1900-01, is one of the earliest buildings in New York specifically designed to house artists' studios. The building's location across from Bryant Park and its generous...
Read the storyCommercial · 1916-18
132 West 42nd Street, New York, NY
The Bush Tower, designed by the prominent architectural firm of Helmle & Corbett and built in 1916-18 (added to in 1921) was an influential prototype for set-back skyscrapers, even though it was designed prior...
Read the storyTheater · 1889–1891
881 7th Ave, New York, NY
William B. Tuthill designed Carnegie Hall at Seventh Avenue and 57th Street. Construction began in 1889, and the hall opened on May 5, 1891, with a festival featuring Tchaikovsky as a guest conductor. The...
Read the storyCommercial · 1856-57
107 Chambers Street, New York, NY
The Cary Building, built in 1856-57, is one of New York's most important 19th-century commercial structures. Designed by one of New York's most prominent firms specializing in commercial architecture, with...
Read the storyEducational · 1926-27
1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
Casa Italiana, a neo-Italian Renaissance style institutional building, was designed as a center for Italian studies by the prestigious architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White. Built in 1926-27, it is located...
Read the storyArmory · 1807
17 Battery Place, New York, NY
This stone fort, once located offshore at the end of a causeway, is one of the original harbor forts which guarded New York. Its handsome doorway and imposing curved walls are notable architectural features....
Read the storyReligious · 1892-1911
1047 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
One of the great religious structures of the world, the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, located at Amsterdam Avenue and West 112th Street in Morningside Heights, is the seat of the Episcopal Diocese...
Read the storyReligious · 1885-86
417 W 57th Street, New York, NY
The Catholic Apostolic Church, built in 1885-86, was one of architect Francis H. Kimball's earliest independent commissions in New York City. He had previously worked mostly in Hartford, Connecticut, where he...
Read the storyCommercial · 1961-64
51 West 52nd Street, New York, NY
The CBS Building was built in 1961-64 as the headquarters for one of America's three historic radio and television networks. The last completed work designed by architect Eero Saarinen, it is one of New York's...
Read the storyResidential · 1909-11
680 Park Avenue, New York, NY
This house is a part of that outstanding group of neo-Federal townhouses which extends along the west side of Park Avenue, between East 68th and 69th Streets, sometimes referred to as the "Pyne-Davison...
Read the storyBank · 1926-28
2108 Broadway, New York, NY
The Central Savings Bank, built in 1926-28, was designed by the architectural firm of York & Sawyer in the manner of a grand Italian Renaissance palace.
Read the storyReligious · 1871-72
652 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Central Synagogue is the oldest Jewish House of Worship in continuous service in the State of New York. Although the plan is Gothic in arrangement, this stone Temple is our finest extant example of the Moorish...
Read the storyResidential · 1931
25 Central Park West, New York, NY
The Century Apartments, extending along the entire blockfront of Central Park West between West 62nd Street to West 63rd Street, anchors the southern end of one of New York City's finest residential...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1889-91
7 West 43rd Street, New York, NY
The Century Association Building was designed by the firm of Gambrill & Richardson, whose partners were both members of the association and one of whom, Henry Hobson Richardson, went on to become one of this...
Read the storyCivic · 1901
65 Liberty Street, New York, NY
This massive marble building, built at the turn of the century, is notable for its grandeur and rich detail. It is outstanding today as a relatively low but impressive building surrounded by skyscrapers. The...
Read the storyCommercial · 1927-29
122 East 42nd Street, New York, NY
The Chanin Building, built in 1927-29, rises 56 stories at the corner of Lexington Avenue and 42nd Street. Designed by the architectural firm of Sloan & Robertson with sculptural decoration by Rene Chambellan,...
Read the storyCommercial · 1912-13
597 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The Scribner Building, built in 1912-13, is an elegant Beaux-Arts commercial structure by the eminent American architect Ernest Flagg. This was the second building Flagg designed-for the prominent publishing...
Read the storyResidential · 1849
151 Avenue B, New York, NY
Charlie Parker, called "Bird," was a world-famous alto saxophonist and jazz composer. From late 1950 through October 1954 he and his common-law wife Chan Richardson occupied the ground floor of No. 151 Avenue...
Read the storyLibrary · 1903
31 E Broadway, New York, NY
Opened on November 2, 1903, the Chatham Square Branch of The New York Public Library is the third Carnegie branch library built in New York City. It is one of twenty in Manhattan and one of sixty-seven in New...
Read the storyResidential · 1910-11
523 East 77th Street, New York, NY
The Shively Sanitary Tenements (also known as the East River Homes) are the product of a unique architectural approach to the major societal and medical problems caused by tuberculosis in the early twentieth...
Read the storyResidential · 1886
295 East 8th Street, New York, NY
Opened on April 21,1887, the Children's Aid Society Tompkins Square Lodging House for Boys and Industrial School, aka the Eleventh Ward Lodging House, is one of a series of buildings in which the Children's...
Read the storyResidential · 1891-92
307 East 12th Street, New York, NY
The Elizabeth Home for Girls, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, was constructed in 1891-2 as a refuge for homeless girls by the Children’s Aid Society . Designed by renowned architect Calvert Vaux in a...
Read the storyReligious · 1892-1894
281 Park Avenue South, New York, NY
An elegant reminder of the distinctive neighborhood which developed along Park Avenue South between 21st and 23rd Streets during the 1890s, the Church Missions House was the joint product of architects Robert...
Read the storyReligious · 1909-10
405 West 114th Street, New York, NY
The Church of Notre Dame is a magnificent stone structure designed in the elegant French neoclassic style of the early Nineteenth Century, The architects' refined sense of scale has skillfully imposed on this...
Read the storyReligious · 1895-1900
980 Park Avenue, New York, NY
Monumental in scale and impressive in appearance, the Park Avenue facade of this dignified Twentieth Century Church reflects the classical style of Seventeenth Century Rome. The symmetrical masonry exterior of...
Read the storyReligious · 1895-97
540 West End Avenue, New York, NY
As the St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church and parish house at West End Avenue and West 86th Street neared completion, the New York Times of March 6, 1897 commented that the buildings comprised "one of the...
Read the storyReligious · 1875-85
8 Columbus Avenue, New York, NY
The Church of St. Paul the Apostle, located at the southwest corner of Columbus Avenue and 60th Street in Manhattan, was built in 1875-85. Commissioned by the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle,...
Read the storyReligious · 1846-48
9th Avenue & West 28th Street, New York, NY
The outstanding feature of the Church of the Holy apostles is its very handsome spire which is enhanced by unusual detail. In its relatively small size and in the context of its modern environment, the scale...
Read the storyReligious · 1844-46
Avenue of the Americas & West 20th Street, New York, NY
Although an urban church, this small Gothic Revival group of buildings has more nearly the feeling of a rural parish. The extreme simplicity of the architecture and the picturesque profile of roofs and towers...
Read the storyReligious · 1844
47 West 20th Street, New York, NY
The Gothic Revival Rectory of the Church of the Holy Communion should be considered as a part of the charming group of buildings, including the church of which it forms a part. Yet, taken by itself and...
Read the storyReligious · 1894
412 East 14th Street, New York, NY
This boldly severe Gothic Eclectic church of stone and Roman brick, has great distinction and individuality in its design and architectural composition. The clean cut profile of the free standing tower, is...
Read the storyReligious · 1864
209 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
This handsome Gothic Revival church and adjacent parish house occupy a prominent corner Site at Madison Avenue and East 35th Street. Designed by architect Emlen T. Littell, the church was built in 1864. The...
Read the storyReligious · 1911-14
Broadway & West 155th Street, New York, NY
Here in this modern version of Gothic architecture is a remarkable complex of buildings forming a truly picturesque group which houses the many functions of today's church activities.
Read the storyReligious · 1801
25 Mott Street, New York, NY
This early church, like the Church of Sea and Land and St. Augustine's Chapel, belongs to the Georgian-Gothic architectural tradition. This is a church, built in Federal times which follows the Georgian...
Read the storyCommercial · 1930-32
70 Pine Street, New York, NY
The former Cities Service Building at 70 Pine Street is a 66-story skyscraper, rising from a trapezoidal site bounded by Pine Street, Cedar Street, and Pearl Street. An icon of the lower Manhattan skyline, the...
Read the storyBank · 1922-24
58 Bowery, New York, NY
The monumental Beaux-Arts style building at the southwest corner of the Bowery and Canal Street was designed in 1922 by the respected architect Clarence W. Brazer (1880-1956) for the Citizens Savings Bank and...
Read the storyResidential · 1898-1915
1168 1st Avenue, New York, NY
Built between 1898 and 1915, City and Suburban Homes Company's First Avenue Estate is the oldest extant project of the most successful of the privately financed, limited-dividend companies which attempted to...
Read the storyResidential · 1900-13
1470 York Avenue, New York, NY
Built between 1901 and 1913, City and Suburban Homes Company's Avenue A Estate was the largest low-income housing project in the world at the time of its completion and remained the t such project in Manhattan...
Read the storyCommercial · 1930-31
20 Exchange Place, New York, NY
One of the most prominent features of the Lower Manhattan skyline, the fifty-nine-story City Bank-Farmers Trust tower is among New York City's tallest skyscrapers. Designed by the architectural firm of Cross &...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1924
131 West 55th Street, New York, NY
City Center/Mecca Temple, built in 1924 to house the functions of the Ancient Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (the Shriners) , has a significant place in the architectural and cultural history of New York...
Read the storyEducational · c. 1906
Amsterdam Avenue & West 140th Street, New York, NY
The story of the founding of the College of the City of New York begins with the story of Townsend Harris who was born in the village of Sandy Hill In Washington County, New York, on October 4, 1804. He grew...
Read the storyCivic · 1802-11
260 Broadway, New York, NY
The New York City Hall is the most beautiful city hall in the United states.
Read the storyClubhouse · 1898-99
243 East 34th Street, New York, NY
The elegant building of the Civic Club, now known as Estonian House, was designed in the French Beaux-Arts style by Thomas A. Gray. Erected in 1898-99, the Civic Club building was commissioned by Frederick...
Read the storyCommercial · 1892
173 West 89th Street, New York, NY
Built in 1892, the Claremont Stables was designed in the then popular Romanesque Revival style by Frank A. Rooke. Now the oldest functioning commercial stable in Manhattan,' it was constructed as a livery...
Read the storyTheater · 1913-14
3338 Broadway, New York, NY
The Claremont Theater building is one of the oldest structures in New York City planned specifically to exhibit motion pictures, originally called “photoplays.” Located in north Manhattanville, at the...
Read the storyResidential · 1930
124 East 80th Street, New York, NY
The influence of the Georgian town house is well exemplified in this handsome, three-story brick building, surmounted by a pedimented attic story. Towering end chimneys enframe two higher floors skillfully set...
Read the storyReligious · 1894
414 East 14th Street, New York, NY
This pair of three and one-half story brick and stone Clergy Houses in French Renaissance Eclectic style, have about them an air of refined elegance in their purity of design, and in the excellent refinement...
Read the storyResidential · 1901-02
22 East 35th Street, New York, NY
This charming building, now the home of the Collectors Club, was constructed in 1901-02 as the residence of Thomas Benedict Clarke in the fashionable Murray Hill section of New York. An especially notable...
Read the storyReligious · 1896-97
99 Central Park West, New York, NY
The synagogue of the Congregation Shearith Israel was built in 1896-97 from plans by the architectural firm of Brunner & Tryon. This masonry building, referred to as the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, is...
Read the storyCommercial · 1910-29
4 Irving Place, New York, NY
The Consolidated Edison Building, constructed in stages between 1910 and 1929 for the Consolidated Gas Company, predecessor to Consolidated Edison, and designed by the leading architectural firms of Henry...
Read the storyResidential · 1916-17
690 Park Avenue, New York, NY
This house is a part of that outstanding group of neo-Federal townhouses which extends along the west side of Park Avenue, between East 68th and 69th Streets, sometimes referred to as the 'Pyne-Davison...
Read the storyCivic · 1894-95
434 West 119th Street, New York, NY
The Croton Aqueduct West 119th Street Gatehouse was constructed in 1894-95 by contractor Peter J. Moran for the New York City Department of Public Works, under the supervision of George W. Birdsall, chief...
Read the storyCommercial · 1920-21
25 Broadway, New York, NY
Located at the head of Bowling Green and extending through the block to Greenwich Street, the twenty-two-story Cunard Building is among lower Manhattan's most architecturally and historically significant...
Read the storyCommercial · 1929-30
220 East 42nd Street, New York, NY
Built in 1929–30 as the home of the Daily News, this East 42nd Street tower is a major work associated with Raymond Hood. The project credits John M. Howells, Raymond M. Hood, and J. André Fouilhoux as...
Read the storyResidential · 1832
20 St. Mark's Place, New York, NY
In the Early Nineteenth Century, St. Mark’s Place (formerly known as Eighth Street) was one of the most elegant residential streets in the City. The Daniel Leroy House is one of an entire bloekfront erected in...
Read the storyCommercial · 1890-91
56 Beaver Street, New York, NY
Erected in 1890-91, to the designs of the prominent architect James Brown Lord, this striking Renaissance Revival restaurant and office building is the only surviving building associated with the world-famous...
Read the storyResidential · 1818-19
310 Spring Street, New York, NY
Located just north of Tribeca and a few blocks from the Hudson River, the Dennison and Lydia Wood House stands at the northern edge of Lispenard’s Meadows, a former marsh that extended for several blocks along...
Read the storyTransit · 1909
11 South Street, New York, NY
Viewed from a ferry boat approaching the tip of Manhattan, the monumental arched openings of the Municipal Ferry Terminal at the mouth of the East River appear like three tunnels opening into the canyons of...
Read the storyCommercial · 1885
399 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
As a commercial structure the DeVinne Press Building established a milestone both aesthetically and structurally for American commercial buildings in New York City. This eight story brick structure with...
Read the storyRecreational · 1929-30
19 West Street, New York, NY
This 35-story, Art Deco skyscraper opened in 1930 as the Downtown Athletic Club. A membership association geared toward businessmen and lawyers who worked in lower Manhattan, the Downtown Athletic Club was...
Read the storyResidential · 1926-28
7th Ave & W 150th St, New York, NY
The Dunbar Apartments, named after the famous Black poet of the turn of the century, Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906), occupies the entire block bounded by 149th and 150th Streets and Seventh and Eighth...
Read the storyResidential · 1783
Broadway & West 204th Street, New York, NY
The Dyckman House stands as the last typical Dutch Colonial farmhouse left on Manhattan Island. Built of fieldstone, brick and wood, this Eighteenth Century hose replaced one of 1748 which was destroyed by the...
Read the storyTransit · 1871
26 West 56th Street, New York, NY
Remodeled in 1907-08 by the noted architect Harry Allan Jacobs for investment banker Isaac Seligman and long occupied by banker E. Hayward Ferry and his wife Amelia Parsons Ferry, this highly intact former...
Read the storyCommercial · 1856
492 Broadway, New York, NY
This attractive five-story building, located on a corner site, has two cast-iron fronts designed in the Anglo-Italianate manner, with arched windows set between columns. The windows are reminiscent of those of...
Read the storyResidential · 1906-04
17 West 56th Street, New York, NY
The Edith Andrews Logan residence was originally designed and constructed in 1870 by the prolific architect-builder John G. Prague as part of a row of fourstory- and-basement, single-family brownstone row...
Read the storyResidential · 1914-16
7 East 95th Street, New York, NY
The Fabbri House at 7 East 95th Street, built in 1914-16, is stylistically derived from Italian Renaissance sources and has many of the characteristics of an Italian palazzo. The architect, Grosvenor...
Read the storyResidential · 1785-89
18 Bowery, New York, NY
This is the only known town house surviving in Manhattan which dates from the period of the American Revolution. It was built between 1785 and 1789. The house stands on its original site, at the southeast...
Read the storyCommercial · 1931-34
319 Grand Street, New York, NY
In the second half of 19th century, Edward Ridley & Sons was the largest department store on the Lower East Side. Founded by Edward Ridley in c. 1848, over the next three decades the business grew by...
Read the storyResidential · 1907-09
1 East 75th Street, New York, NY
This imposing residence in the style of an Italian Renaissance palazzo is outstanding not only for excellence of design and beauty of execution but also for subtle richness of detail. Five stories high with...
Read the storyResidential · 1929-31
300 Central Park West, New York, NY
The Eldorado, extending along the entire blockfront of Central Park West between 90th and 91st Streets, is the northernmost of the four twin-towered apartment houses that give Central Park West its distinctive...
Read the storyReligious · 1886-87
16 Eldridge Street, New York, NY
The Synagogue of Khal Adath Jeshurun with Anshe Lubz, more familiarly known as the Eldridge Street Synagogue, was the first and finest synagogue erected on the Lower East Side by the Orthodox East European...
Read the storyReligious · 1867-68
547 East 11th Street, New York, NY
The Eleventh Street Methodist Episcopal Chapel (later People’s Home Church and Settlement, now The Father’s Heart Church) was constructed in 1867-68 to the design of prominent architects William Field and Son....
Read the storyCommercial · 1925-27
691 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The Aeolian Building was constructed in 1925-27 to the design of architects Warren & Wetmore for the Gould Realty Co., controlled by Commodore Charles A. Gould, a wealthy iron and steel manufacturer and...
Read the storyCommercial · 1897-98
71 Broadway, New York, NY
The richly decorative, neo-classical Empire Building was commissioned in 1895 by the Estate of Orlando B. Potter and constructed in 1897-98 to the design of Kimball & Thompson.
Read the storyCommercial · 1930-31
350 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The Empire State Building opened on May 1, 1931, after a construction campaign that began in March 1930. Shreve, Lamb & Harmon designed the 102-story tower on the site of the original Waldorf-Astoria hotel....
Read the storyFirehouse · 1904-05
104 Duane Street, New York, NY
The Engine Company No. 7/Hook & Ladder Company No.1 Firehouse, designed in the Beaux-Arts style --or what at the time was described as the "modern French" style -. by the prominent architectural firm of...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1905-06
215 West 58th Street, New York, NY
Engine Company Number 23, built in 1905-06, was designed by Alexander H. Stevens in a straightforward Beaux-Arts style that served as a model for subsequent firehouse design. The symmetry of the three story...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1905-07
32 West 40th Street, New York, NY
The Engineers’ Club was founded in 1888 at a time when professional engineering was becoming increasingly important to the industrial and economic development of the United States. While the city was well...
Read the storyCommercial · 1913-15
120 Broadway, New York, NY
The Equitable Building, designed by the firm of E.R. Graham, successor to D.H. Burnham & Co., has long been considered a key element in the development and passage of New York’s zoning law, the first in the...
Read the storyCommercial · 1882-83
112 Horatio Street, New York, NY
Constructed in 1882-83 for paint manufacturers F.W. Devoe & Co. and designed by the noted architectural firm of Kimball & Wisedell, the six-story factory building at 110-112 Horatio Street is a rare surviving...
Read the storyCivic · 1834–1842
26 Wall Street, New York, NY
George Washington took his first presidential oath at Federal Hall in 1789, but the building visible today came later. The present marble structure was built between 1834 and 1842 as a United States custom...
Read the storyCivic · 1924
33 Liberty Street, New York, NY
This enormous building occupies an entire city block; it is fourteen stories high and has five stories below grade. The remarkable stone exterior is reminiscent of an early Italianate Renaissance palace with...
Read the storyResidential · 1906-08
1109 5th Avenue, New York, NY
By the early 1900s, Fifth Avenue facing Central Park had earned the nickname of "Millionaires' row." An astonishing panoply of millionaires' mansions had been constructed in which architectural elegance was...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1897-98
514 W 170th Street, New York, NY
The station house for Engine Company 67 was constructed in 1897-98 for a newly-formed fire company established to serve the rapidly-growing section of New York City known as Washington Heights. Using the...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1883-84
175 East 104th Street, New York, NY
Erected in 1884, Fire Engine Company No. 53 was designed by the prominent firm of Napoleon LeBrun & Sons, architects for the Fire Department between 1879 and 1895. Fire Engine Company No. 53 is an excellent...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1888-89
120 East 125th Street, New York, NY
Fire Hook & Ladder Company No. 14, built in 1888-89, was designed by the architectural firm of N. LeBrun & Sons in the Romanesque Revival style. Between the years of 1880 and 1895, N. LeBrun & Sons helped to...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1884-86
159 East 67th Street, New York, NY
Fire Engine Company 39 and Ladder Company 16 Station House is an outstanding example of late nineteenth century civic architecture. Built in 1884-86, the six-story Romanesque Revival structure was designed by...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1889-90
500 West 113th Street, New York, NY
Fire Engine Company No. 47, built in 1889-90, is a distinguished firehouse designed by the architectural firm N. LeBrun & Sons. Stylistically, it combines features of Romanesque Revival and Classical Revival...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1898-99
363 Broome Street, New York, NY
Fire Engine Company 55 is a richly ornamented, mid-block firehouse, erected in 1898¬-99. It was the prominent New York architect R. H. Robertson's only commission for the New York City Fire Department and one...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1897-98
33 West 43rd Street, New York, NY
Erected in 1897-98, the Fire Engine Company No. 65 firehouse was built to increase fire protection in an almost unprotected yet increasingly fashionable neighborhood. Its construction came at the end of a...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1906-07
515 West 161st Street, New York, NY
Fire Engine Company No. 84 and Hook & Ladder Company No. 34, built in 1906-¬07, is a monumental building designed by Francis H. Kimball. The facade of Engine Company No. 84 and Hook & Ladder Company No. 34 is...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1895
87 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
This Fire House in the French Renaissance Eclectic Style of architecture is an outstanding example of good civic architecture of its time. Here in this small fire house can be seen the result of New York...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1893
44 Great Jones Street, New York, NY
Dominated by a graceful arch, monumental in scale, this late Nineteenth Century Firehouse is a striking example of the French Beaux Arts style of architecture. A daring design in its day, the impressive facade...
Read the storyArmory · 1900-03
56 West 66th Street, New York, NY
Built in 1900-1903, the First Battery Armory (later the 102nd Medical Battalion Armory) was one of the few remaining examples of an American building type largely developed in New York City. It was the seventh...
Read the storyReligious · 1899-1903
1 West 96th Street, New York, NY
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, built in 1899-1903 at the northeast corner of Central Park West and 96th Street, was designed by the noted architectural firm of Carrere & Hastings and is in the finest...
Read the storyResidential · 1935-36
29 Avenue A, New York, NY
First Houses," the municipal housing project located on Avenue A, between Second and Third Streets, and along Third Street, was begun early in 1935 and com-pleted in mid-1936. Approval for the project was...
Read the storyBank · 1836-42 & 1907
55 Wall Street, New York, NY
The First National City Bank is an outstandingly handsome bank building, executed in granite and designed in a truly monumental scale. Occupying an entire city block, this imposing building impresses many...
Read the storyPolice · 1909-11
South Street & Old Slip, New York, NY
The First Precinct Police Station, designed in the neo-Italian Renaissance style by the notable architectural firm of Hunt & Hunt, was erected in 1909-11. This impressive public building still commands its...
Read the storyGraveyard · 1683
57 St. James Place, New York, NY
This small graveyard is what remains today of the early burial ground of the Sephardic Jewish congregation, Shearith Israel. It was established on this site in the Seventeenth Century and thus represents one...
Read the storyReligious · 1867
9 East 7th Street, New York, NY
This French Second Empire building occupies a corner plot so that the two impressive facades can be advantageously viewed at the same time. The century-old three story masonry structure with mansard roof and...
Read the storyResidential · 1871
12 East 53rd Street, New York, NY
The Fisk-Harkness House is a town house originally constructed in 1871 and substantially altered in 1906 to the designs of architect Raleigh C. Gildersleeve, who transformed the building into a grand...
Read the storyCommercial · 1902
175 5th Avenue, New York, NY
Completed in 1902 to designs by D. H. Burnham & Co., the Flatiron Building fits the triangular plot where Broadway crosses Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street. Its steel frame allowed an unusually tall, narrow...
Read the storyCommercial · 1891-92
453 Washington Street, New York, NY
Distinguished by its picturesque gabled roof and striking dark brick trim, the Fleming Smith Warehouse is an impressive commercial building on the Southeast corner of Washington and Watts Streets in the...
Read the storyPolice · 1871-72
1854 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
Constructed in 1871-72 and designed by Nathaniel Bush, who acted as the official architect of the New York City Police Department, this handsome French Second Empire style brick building was located at the...
Read the storyCommercial · 1909
1770 Broadway, New York, NY
The A.T. Demarest & Company and Peerless Motor Car Company Buildings, located in the heart of the "Automobile Row" section of Broadway in Manhattan, were used by the automobile industry for over six decades....
Read the storyHotel · 1902-04
17 West 32nd Street, New York, NY
The Aberdeen Hotel was built in 1902-04 as an apartment hotel to the designs of architect Harry B. Mulliken for the Old Colony Company, a real estate development firm. At that time, the Herald Square area was...
Read the storyBank · 1927-29
48 Wall Street, New York, NY
This thirty-two-story neo-Georgian skyscraper, with its distinctive setback tower, was erected by the Bank of New York & Trust Company in 1927-29 to the plans of Benjamin Wistar Morris, a prominent designer of...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1869
111 East 15th Street, New York, NY
The Century Association Building was designed by the firm of Gambrill & Richardson, whose partners were both members of the association and one of whom, Henry Hobson Richardson, went on to become one of this...
Read the storyReligious · 1908
242 East 7th Street, New York, NY
This small, classical revival style synagogue building is a fine and rare surviving example of the numerous small synagogues that were constructed during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on...
Read the storyCommercial · 1907-08
714 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The former Coty Building, built in 1907-08 is a significant reminder of Fifth Avenue at the turn of the century, when the avenue, south of 59th Street, was shifting from residential to commercial use. Designed...
Read the storyBank · 1926-27
743 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
The East River Savings Bank, prominently located on the northeast corner of Amsterdam Avenue and West 96th Street, was built in 1926-27, and was enlarged in 1931-32. Both phases of the building were designed...
Read the storyCivic · 1894-96
314 West 54th Street, New York, NY
The former Eleventh Judicial District Courthouse, one of the few remaining nineteenth-century public buildings in the western portion of Midtown, and one of only three district courthouse buildings of that era...
Read the storyBank · 1909-12
51 Chambers Street, New York, NY
The 17-story Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank was constructed between 1909 and 1912, and was the third bank built on the site for the same expanding organization. Designed by architect Raymond F. Almirall, who...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1888
304 West 47th Street, New York, NY
Erected in 1888, the former Fire Engine Company No. 54 was designed by the prominent firm of Napoleon LeBrun & Son, architects for the New York City Fire Department, between 1879 and 1895. Former Fire Engine...
Read the storyBank · 1898-99
190 Bowery, New York, NY
The former Germania Bank building is an impressive Beaux Arts-style structure prominently located on the northwest corner of the Bowery and Spring Street. Built in 1898-99 to the designs of architect Robert...
Read the storyBank · 1922-24
1362 Broadway, New York, NY
Haier America acquired the building in 2002.
Read the storyTheater · 1912-13
3560 Broadway, New York, NY
Constructed in 1912-13 as a vaudeville house during one of New York's theater building booms, the Hamilton Theater is located in the Hamilton Heights area of Manhattan. Designed by the great theater architect,...
Read the storyCarriage House · 1902-03
213 West 58th Street, New York, NY
The former Helen Miller Gould Stable, an early work of the noted firm of York & Sawyer, is an eminently pure example of the late French Renaissance style and set an exceptionally high standard of carriage...
Read the storyCommercial · 1892-94
257 Broadway, New York, NY
The (former) Home Life Insurance Company Building, a significant, early skyscraper richly designed in the neo-Renaissance style by Pierre L LeBrun of the firm of Napoleon LeBrun & Sons, was constructed in...
Read the storyResidential · 1889-1892
23 Park Avenue, New York, NY
Built in 1889-92 for J. Hampden Robb and his wife Cornelia Van Rensselaer Robb, this elegant and imposing structure is considered one of the finest urban residences designed by Stanford White of the prominent...
Read the storyCommercial · 1929-30
3 East 57th Street, New York, NY
The L.P. Hollander & Company Building, constructed in 1929-30, was part of the exclusive retail shopping district developing on East 57th Street that catered to New York’s wealthy and stylish women. Designed...
Read the storyCommercial · 1869-70
901 Broadway, New York, NY
One of the most impressive stores in the late 19th-century shopping district known as "The Ladies' Mile," the former Lord & Taylor building stands at the southwest corner of Broadway and 20th Street and, with...
Read the storyBank · 1953-54
510 5th Avenue, New York, NY
he former Manufacturers Trust Company Building, erected in 1953-54 on the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and West 43rd Street, was one of the first buildings in the United States to introduce International...
Read the storyBank · 1896-97
81 8th Avenue, New York, NY
The New York Savings Bank, built in two sections in 1896-97, was designed by RH. Robertson in the Academic Classic style popularized by the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893). It is one of his most...
Read the storyCommercial · 1906
20 Vesey Street, New York, NY
This fourteen-story building, designed by Robert D. Kohn, is a steel-framed structure veneered with stone. It is a fine example of the rarely used Art Nouveau Style which began in Europe at the turn of the...
Read the storyLibrary · 1898
206 West 100th Street, New York, NY
The New York Free Circulating Library, Bloomingdale Branch, was the only building commissioned and built by the New York Free Circulating Library and as such is an expression of the library's commitment to the...
Read the storyCommercial · 1894-98
346 Broadway, New York, NY
The home office of the New York Life insurance Company, organized in 1841 and one of the oldest life insurance companies in America. was constructed between 1894 and 1898. A monumental freestanding skyscraper...
Read the storyCommercial · 1888-89
41 Park Row, New York, NY
This sixteen-story office building, constructed as the home of the New York Times, is one of the last survivors of Newspaper Row, the center of newspaper publishing in New York City from the 1830s to the...
Read the storyCommercial · 1958-60
500 Park Avenue, New York, NY
Located on a prominent corner site along Park Avenue, a thoroughfare associated since the 1950s with sleek, understated modern monuments to corporate America, the Pepsi-Cola Building is one of New York's...
Read the storyPolice · 1905-09
240 Centre Street, New York, NY
Designed by the architectural firm of Hoppin and Koen, the former New York City Police Headquarters building at 240 Centre Street was built between 1905 and 1909 and stands today as one of New York City's most...
Read the storyEducational · 1908-09
160 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
The Pratt New York Phoenix School of Design, a five-story brick and stone neo-Classical institutional building, is located on the northwest corner of Lexington Avenue and 30th Street. Built in 1908-09, it was...
Read the storyEducational · 1904-06
605 East 9th Street, New York, NY
(Former) Public School 64 was designed by master school architect C.B.J. Snyder in the French Renaissance Revival style and built in 1904-06. This was a period of tremendous expansion and construction of new...
Read the storyCommercial · 1899-1900
258 Broadway, New York, NY
The Rogers, Peet & Company building is an eight-story neo-Renaissance style commercial and office building designed by the firm of John B. Snook & Sons. Constructed in 1899-1900 for clergyman Eugene A....
Read the storyRecreational · 1894-95
190 3rd Avenue, New York, NY
Dating from 1894-95, the (former) Scheffel Hall is a significant reminder of the German-American community known as Kleindeutschland which flourished on the Lower East Side in the last half of the nineteenth...
Read the storyReligious · 1812
103 Washington Street, New York, NY
The former St. George’s Syrian Catholic Church is the most significant remnant of the Lower Manhattan immigrant enclave known as the “Syrian Quarter,” the “Mother Colony” of Syrians and Lebanese in America....
Read the storyEducational · 1905-07
345 East 15th Street, New York, NY
The former Stuyvesant High School was built in 1905-07 as Manhattan's first "manual training" public school for boys, one of the educational reforms brought about by William H. Maxwell, first Superintendent of...
Read the storyCommercial · 1903-06
409 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The former Tiffany & Company Building at Fifth Avenue and 37th Street is one of the most elegant commercial palaces in New York. Built in 1903-06, the structure was designed by McKim, Mead & White, one of the...
Read the storyCommercial · 1911-12
1790 Broadway, New York, NY
This elegant, Beaux-Arts style, twenty- story office building was constructed in 1911- 12 for the United States Rubber Company at a time when the automobile was beginning to exert a powerful influence on...
Read the storyCommercial · 1884-85
222 Bowery, New York, NY
This 1884-1885 building, the first branch erected by the New York City YMCA Board of Directors, is the sole survivor of New York's nineteenth-century YMCA branches and the major surviving New York City work of...
Read the storyReligious · 1913-14
21 Wadsworth Avenue, New York, NY
Fort Washington Presbyterian Church, built 1913-14 to the designs of Thomas Hastings of the firm of Carrère & Hastings as a daughter church to West Park Presbyterian Church, is an imposing neo-Georgian...
Read the storyCommercial · 1912
175 East Broadway, New York, NY
Constructed in 1912, the ten-story Forward Building remains to this day a towering presence within the context of its immediate Lower East Side neighborhood. Its only competitor for dominance, apart from the...
Read the storyEducational · 1853-59
30 Cooper Square, New York, NY
The main building of Cooper Union is one of those proud buildings on the American Scene which may rightly take its place with the pioneer buildings of all lands. It was here that innovations were made both in...
Read the storyCommercial · 1719
54 Pearl Street, New York, NY
Fraunces Tavern is a three-story brick building with an attic with dormer windows. The west wall is notable for having been constructed of 18th century Holland Brick while the rest of the building utilized...
Read the storyCommercial · 1926-27
551 5th Avenue, New York, NY
Located on the northeast corner of 45th Street and Fifth Avenue, the Fred F. French Building was constructed in 1926-27 as corporate headquarters for the prominent real estate firm of the same name. A proto -...
Read the storyRecreational · 1904-05
538 East 11th Street, New York, NY
A highly intact work of prominent architect Arnold W. Brunner, the Free Public Baths of the City of New York, East 11th Street Bath at 538 East 11th Street is also culturally significant for its part in the...
Read the storyRecreational · 1906-11
348 East 54th Street, New York, NY
The East 54th Street Bath, the 12th of 13 Free Public Baths of the City of New York opened in Manhattan, is culturally significant for its part in the history of the progressive reform movement in America. An...
Read the storyReligious · 1859
144 East 20th Street, New York, NY
The Friends Meeting House is a two-story building with basement. It is a restrained and successful example of Anglo-Italianate architecture. Its calculated restraint and understatement reflect the English...
Read the storyReligious · 1861
221 East 15th Street, New York, NY
In 1861 the "Hicksite" Quakers built a three story brick meeting house at the northwest corner of Rutherford Place and East Fifteenth Street. Its simple pedimented entrance porch and double hung muntined sash...
Read the storyCommercial · 1928-29
599 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
The Fuller Building, designed by the prolific architectural firm of Walker & Gillette, and built in 1928-29 as the home office for one of the largest and most important construction firms in America, is a...
Read the storyResidential · 1907-08
222 Central Park South, New York, NY
The Gainsborough Studios is a rare surviving example of artists' cooperative housing, a building type popular in Manhattan for a brief period in the early twentieth century. Built during the heyday of its...
Read the storyGraveyard · 1891-97
W 122nd Street & Riverside Drive, New York, NY
he General Grant National Memorial, the work of architect John K. Duncan, is one of the most impressive monuments in the City. Located on a spectacular site overlooking the Hudson River and Riverside Park, at...
Read the storyCarriage House · 1902
149 East 38th Street, New York, NY
This two-story stable building was constructed in 1902 for William R. H. Martin, a businessman and real estate developer active in the Murray Hill section of the city. Architect Ralph S. Townsend designed this...
Read the storyResidential · 1902-05
641 5th Avenue, New York, NY
This distinguished building, 647 Fifth Avenue, located between 51st and 52nd Streets, is one of the few reminders of the residential character and Beaux-Arts splendor of this section of Fifth Avenue at the...
Read the storyResidential · 1929-30
120 East 80th Street, New York, NY
The formal dignity of the Federal Style is evident in the character of the Twentieth Century town house. The virtues of the style are found in its excellent proportions, the refinement of its details, the...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1888-89
12 St. Mark's Place, New York, NY
Designed by William C. Frohne and constructed in 1888-89, the German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse (DeutscheAmerikanische Schützen Geseüschaft) is a rare, intact reminder of the important German...
Read the storyCommercial · 1870
357 Bowery, New York, NY
Designed by a prominent German-American architect and built in 1870, the Germania Fire Insurance Company Bowery Building recalls the time when the Bowery was a major thoroughfare of America’s leading...
Read the storyCommercial · 1910-11
50 Union Square East, New York, NY
"Regard for the safety of the assured" was the guiding principle of the Germania (now The Guardian) Life Insurance Company. Founded on the "trinity" of net reserve valuations (adequate reserves mathematically...
Read the storyResidential · 1895-98
867 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
At the turn of the century the streets of the upper East Side near Central Park were lined with elegant townhouses and great mansions. 'Chateaux' like the Waldo house were numerous, but today only a very few...
Read the storyResidential · 1869-71
1200 Broadway, New York, NY
Dominating the intersection of Broadway and West 29th Street, the Gilsey House Hotel is one of the city’s most imposing Second Empire cast-iron buildings. Designed by Stephen Decatur Hatch for Peter Gilsey,...
Read the storyCommercial · 1930-32
606 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The ten-story Goelet Building at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 49th Street, built in 1930-32, was designed by Victor L. S. Hafner in the Art Deco style but modified to exhibit the supporting skeletal frame...
Read the storyResidential · 1883-84
891 Broadway, New York, NY
The Gorham Building, built in 1883-83 at the northwest corner of Broadway and 19th Street, was designed by noted architect Edward Hale Kendall, and is one of his few surviving buildings. The building is an...
Read the storyCommercial · 1904-06
390 5th Avenue, New York, NY
This elegant commercial building, constructed in 1904-05 for the Gorham Manufacturing Company, contained its wholesale and retail showrooms, offices, and workshops. Designed by Stanford White of the prominent...
Read the storyHotel · 1902-05
700 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The imposing neo-Italian Renaissance Gotham Hotel (now the Peninsula Hotel) is one of the few structures on Fifth Avenue which recalls the golden age of luxury hotels and the prominent place they occupied in...
Read the storyReligious · 1843-46
800 Broadway, New York, NY
The Gothic Revival truly began in New York City in 1846 with the advent of two new churches of great significance. One was Richard Upjohn*s new Trinity Church at Wall Street; the other was James Renwick, Jr.'s...
Read the storyReligious · 1846
804 Broadway, New York, NY
The Grace Church Rectory is probably one of the finest Gothic Revival residences in Manhattan. It belongs to that early phase of the Gothic Revival in which an attempt was made, by differentiating the bay...
Read the storyReligious · 1882-83
96 4th Avenue, New York, NY
This handsome Gothic style building is one of the finest in the City. It is an integral part of a picturesque group of buildings, all designed in similar style, that form part of the Grace Church complex, and...
Read the storyResidential · 1799-1801
E 88th St & East End Ave, New York, NY
Located in Carl Schurz Park on the East River at East Eighty Eighth Street is one of the finest Federal Style country seats remaining to us from that early period. Standing on a promontory, once known as...
Read the storyResidential · 1899-1901
1937 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd, New York, NY
Graham Court Apartments, commissioned by William Waldorf Astor, was constructed in 1899-1901 as part of the great Harlem real-estate boom. Designed by the firm of Clinton & Russell, architects known for their...
Read the storyEducational · 1894-96
466 West End Avenue, New York, NY
Built in 1894-96 and opened in 1896, Grammar School No. 9 is the oldest known extant public school, as well as one of the few remaining nineteenth-century institutional buildings, on the Upper West Side of...
Read the storyTransit · 1913
89 East 42nd Street, New York, NY
Grand Central Terminal opened on February 2, 1913. The firms Reed & Stem and Warren & Wetmore designed the terminal, combining the practical demands of moving passengers with monumental public rooms. Its...
Read the storyHotel · 1868
1238 Broadway, New York, NY
The Grand Hotel, an urbane marble structure crowned with a handsome mansard roof, is a sophisticated example of the French Second Empire style. Built for Elias S. Higgins, an important manufacturer and vendor...
Read the storyReligious · 1897-98
149 West 123rd Street, New York, NY
An embodiment of the cultural life of Harlem during the past century, from its period of great urbanization through its physical and demographic changes, the (former) St. Paul's German Evangelical Lutheran...
Read the storyCommercial · 1959-63
105 East 17th Street, New York, NY
In May 1860 a group of mainly German immigrants gathered at Delmonico’s restaurant to discuss the formation of a company that would become known as the Germania Life Insurance Company of New York. Hugo...
Read the storyRecreational · 1898-1900
130 Pitt Street, New York, NY
The Hamilton Fish Park Play Center is among the most notable small civic buildings in New York City. Designed in 1898 by Carrere & Hastings, one of America's foremost architectural firms at the turn of the...
Read the storyResidential · 1801
287 Convent Avenue, New York, NY
The almost square architectural mass of Hamilton Grange is impressive in its symmetry and handsome proportions. Designed by one of the City's best early architects, John McComb, Jr., and incorporating features...
Read the storyLibrary · 1905-06
505 West 145th Street, New York, NY
The Hamilton Grange Branch Library, built by McKim, Mead & White in 1905-6 in the style of the Italian Renaissance, has the true character of a Florentine palazzo. This three-story stone building shows The...
Read the storyResidential · 1831
4 St. Mark's Place, New York, NY
The large town house at 4 St. Mark’s Place in the East Village section of Manhattan was constructed in 1831 in the Federal style, characterized and made notable by its unusual 26-foot width and 3-1/2-story...
Read the storyResidential · 1936-37
151st St & Macombs PL, New York, NY
Harlem River Houses, the first federally-funded, federally-built, and federally-owned housing project in New York City, was begun early in 1936 and completed in 1937. It was an example of the early...
Read the storyCommercial · 1912
35 West 39th Street, New York, NY
The Haskins & Sells building, designed by architect Frederick C. Zobel, was originally constructed in 1912 as a speculative venture of the Brunswick Realty Company, a real estate enterprise headed by Zobel's...
Read the storyCommercial · 1927-28
69 8th Avenue, New York, NY
The Hearst Magazine Building was designed in 1926-27 by Joseph Urban (one of the foremost theater designers in America in the early twentieth century as well as a skilled architect) in association with George...
Read the storyTheater · 1912
244 West 44th Street, New York, NY
The building of the Little Theater marked a new direction in the history of the Broadway stage, and in the design of Broadway theaters. Designed by Ingalls & Hoffman and built in 1912, the Little Theater's...
Read the storyResidential · 1899-1901
30 West 56th Street, New York, NY
No. 30 West 56th Street, designed by C.P.H. Gilbert for prominent investment banker Henry Seligman and his wife Adelaide, stands as a particularly grand and well-preserved example of the fashionable townhouses...
Read the storyResidential · 1894-96
9 East 72nd Street, New York, NY
The prominent architectural firm of Carrere & Hastings was commissioned In the early 1890s to design this large townhouse for the merchant prince, Henry T. Sloane. This elegant house is an especially fine...
Read the storyResidential · 1882-86
26 East 51st Street, New York, NY
Nowhere in New York City does there exist another unified group of brownstone residences of such magnitude as this cluster standing on Madison Avenue. This great complex of Italian Renaissance town-houses is...
Read the storyResidential · 1882-84
455 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Nowhere in New York City does there exist another unified group of brownstone residences of such magnitude as this cluster standing on Madison Avenue. This great complex of Italian Renaissance town-houses is...
Read the storyResidential · 1882-85
457 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Nowhere in New York City does there exist another unified group of brownstone residences of such magnitude as this cluster standing on Madison Avenue. This great complex of Italian Renaissance town-houses is...
Read the storyEducational · 1893-94
120 West 46th Street, New York, NY
The High School of the Performing Arts, formerly Public School 67, is a handsome Romanesque Revival style building originally built to serve a large residential community on the west side of Manhattan. The...
Read the storyRecreational · 1934-36
Amsterdam Avenue & West 172nd Street, New York, NY
The Highbridge Play Center is one of a group of eleven immense outdoor swimming pools opened in the summer of 1936 in a series of grand ceremonies presided over by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and Park...
Read the storyReligious · 1897
316 East 88th Street, New York, NY
The bell-tower of Holy Trinity Church is without question one of the most beautiful in New York City. Dominating the remarkable group of buildings of which it is a part, the tower is an outstanding example of...
Read the storyCommercial · 1930
2714 Broadway, New York, NY
The 3-story, limestone-clad Horn & Hardart Automat-Cafeteria Building at 2710-2714 Broadway (at West 104th Street), a distinctive small-scale commercial structure executed in the Art Deco style, is one of the...
Read the storyHotel · 1883
222 West 23rd Street, New York, NY
Reminiscent of the great "Spanish-Flats" which once stood on 59th Street at Central Park, this building was also designed by Hubert Pirsson & Co. It is one of the few remaining of the great Victorian Gothic...
Read the storyHotel · 1903-05
34 East 32nd Street, New York, NY
The St. Louis Hotel, constructed in 1903-05, as part of the midtown hotel district was built at a time of great expansion and development in midtown Manhattan. Close to shopping and entertainment districts,...
Read the storyHotel · 1902-05
2693 Broadway, New York, NY
Prominently situated at the corner of West 103rd Street and Broadway, the Hotel Marseilles is a distinctive Beaux-Arts style apartment hotel constructed in 1902-05, at a time when this section of Broadway on...
Read the storyHotel · 1897-98
1260 Broadway, New York, NY
The Hotel Martinique, a major work of the prominent designer Henry J. Hardenbergh, was constructed in three phases, in 1897-98, 1901-03, and 190911. Developer William R. H. Martin, who had invested heavily in...
Read the storyHotel · 1912-13
2096 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr Blvd, New York, NY
The Hotel Theresa, built in 1912-13, was one of the major social centers of Harlem, serving from 1940 until its conversion into an office building in the late 1960s as one of the most important institutions...
Read the storyHotel · 1092-04
4 West 31 Street, New York, NY
The Beaux Arts style Hotel Wolcott is a distinctive early 20th-century hotel in midtown Manhattan, located close to numerous sites for entertainment, business and shopping as well as various transportation...
Read the storyTheater · 1902-04
141 West 44th Street, New York, NY
The Hudson Theater survives today as one of the historic playhouses that symbolize American theater for both New York and the nation. Built in 1902-04, the Hudson was part of a burst in theater construction...
Read the storyCommercial · 1926
1554 Broadway, New York, NY
The I. Miller Building, with its four statues of leading actresses of the 1920s by the noted sculptor Alexander Stirling Calder, is an evocative reminder of the history of the Broadway theater district....
Read the storyCommercial · 1851-54
1 Hanover Square, New York, NY
One of the finest buildings of the Anglo-Italianate Style in New York City is India House, built for the Hanover Bank between 1851 and 1854. This building has played an important role in the commercial life of...
Read the storyCommercial · 1882-87
1 Broadway, New York, NY
The International Mercantile Marine Company Building occupies a prominent and historic location at the south end of Broadway, facing both Bowling Green and Battery Park, on a lot that extends along the entire...
Read the storyResidential · 1901-03
346 West 89th Street, New York, NY
The imposing Isaac L. Rice Mansion, built in 1901-03, is one of two freestanding mansions to survive on Riverside Drive. As such it is a reminder of the period in the early 20th century when Riverside Drive...
Read the storyResidential · 1916-19
686 Park Avenue, New York, NY
This house is a part of that outstanding group of neo-Federal townhouses which extends along the west side of Park Avenue, between East 63th and 69th Streets, sometimes referred to as the "Pyne-Davison...
Read the storyCommercial · 1906-07
1 William Street, New York, NY
The rusticated, richly sculptural, neo-Renaissance style J. & W. Seligman & Company Building, designed by Francis Hatch Kimball in association with Julian C. Levi and built in 1906-07 by the George A. Fuller...
Read the storyCommercial · 1913
23 Wall Street, New York, NY
This large, low building consists of three stories and a blind attic. The Morgan Building is a building which displays many handsome classical details, yet because of its broad smooth wall surfaces, great...
Read the storyResidential · 1853
231 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
This three-story brownstone Anglo-Italianate mansion is one of the finest in the City. The house is memorable as the residences of J.P. Morgan Jr., one of the most eminent citizens of his time and one of our...
Read the storyRecreational · 1935-37
85 Bradhurst Avenue, New York, NY
The Jackie Robinson Play Center is one of a group of eleven immense outdoor swimming pools opened in the summer of 1936 in a series of grand ceremonies presided over by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and Park...
Read the storyResidential · 1902-05
7 East 91st Street, New York, NY
The grandeur of the "Belle Epoque'' is reflected in this palatial residence built between 1902 and 1905 for steel manufacturer James A. Burden, Jr., and his wife, the former Florence Adele Sloane, a...
Read the storyResidential · 1817
326 Spring Street, New York, NY
Talbot Hamlin, the great authority on American architecture, noted in connection with the Federal style: "New York developed a special type of dwelling... the type is a local one." The James Brown House is a...
Read the storyResidential · 1901-03
123 East 35th Street, New York, NY
This imposing residence of Beaux-Arts design was built in 1901-03 for James and Harriet Lanier in the fashionable Murray Hill section of New York. Designed by the architectural firm of Hoppin & Koen, it...
Read the storyResidential · 1793-1806
7 State Street, New York, NY
This fine brick, Federal town house is significant as the last of the row of elegant town houses which once lined State Street. It is three stories high with an attic and is set on a stone basement. The...
Read the storyCommercial · 1969-71
333 East 47th Street, New York, NY
The headquarters of Japan Society, earlier called Japan House, is located in the Turtle Bay section of Manhattan on the north side of East 47th Street, close to First Avenue and the United Nations. Founded in...
Read the storyResidential · 1909-11
11 E 91st Street, New York, NY
The restrained elegance of this distinguished house, built in 1909-11, is a simplified expression of French Beaux-Arts Classicism. The architects, S. B. Parkman Trowbridge and Goodhue Livingston, were the...
Read the storyResidential · 1902-03
9 East 91st Street, New York, NY
This grand residence was built in 1902-03 and designed by the prestigious architects Carrere & Hastings, noted for the New York Public Library and the Henry Clay Frick Mansion. The Hammond House is a fine...
Read the storyResidential · 1904-06
11 East 51st Street, New York, NY
The residence at 11 East 51 Street was erected in 1904-06 for stone and building contractor John Peirce and was designed by noted architect John H. Duncan. At the time of its construction, Fifth Avenue just...
Read the storyReligious · 1841
44 John Street, New York, NY
John Street Methodist Church is a fine small church with an outstanding Anglo-Italianate facade. The church has remained virtually untouched in the heart of the financial district since it was built over a...
Read the storyCarriage House · 1871
148 East 40th Street, New York, NY
This small structure was built as a private stable for Jonathan W. Allen in 1871 by Charles Hadden, a builder who was active in New York at the time. Allen was a broker who lived on East 42nd Street and wanted...
Read the storyResidential · 1869
46 West 55th Street, New York, NY
The Joseph B. and Josephine H. Bissell House was originally constructed as one of five Italianate style brownstone row houses designed by architect Thomas Thomas and built in 1869 by owner and builder John W....
Read the storyCommercial · 1885-86
1838 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
The Joseph Loth & Company Silk Ribbon Mill, which stands out among American textile mill buildings due to its exceptional architectural character and unusual design, was commissioned in 1885 by the Loth family...
Read the storyReligious · 1877
54 Washington Square South, New York, NY
Standing on the south side of Washington Square, this Italian Renaissance Eclectic building and ten story Tower combine to form a striking composition. The walls are warm yellow Roman Brick and represent the...
Read the storyReligious · 1892
55 Washington Square South, New York, NY
Sitting proudly on a corner lot of Washington Square South, this small rectangular church, with its sharply defined gable roof, is a superb example of Italian Renaissance Eclectic architecture. Adjacent to and...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1927-28
130 East 80th Street, New York, NY
Reflecting the Neo-Classic Style of Robert Adam, one of the foremost English architects of the Eighteenth Century, this formal residence of austere elegance is five stories high with basement and sub-basement....
Read the storyReligious · 1926-27
280 Broome Street, New York, NY
The Kehila Kadosha Janina Synagogue was constructed in 1926-27 for a small group of Romaniote Jews who had emigrated from the town of Ioannina in northwestern Greece. They had begun moving to the United States...
Read the storyHotel · 1897-98
150 Barrow Street, New York, NY
The Keller Hotel was constructed in 1897-98 to the Renaissance Revival style design of Julius Munckwitz. He was Supervising Architect and Superintendent of Parks in New York City and maintained an...
Read the storyCommercial · 1892-93
127 Fulton Street, New York, NY
The 8-story Keuffel & Esser Co. Building was constructed in 1892-93 to the design of De Lemos & Cordes as the general offices and salesrooms for the firm that imported and manufactured drawing materials,...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1913-15
2 East 62nd Street, New York, NY
Recognized as one of the finest examples of the neo-Federal style in New York City, the Knickerbocker Club Building was built between 1913 and 1915 by the fashionable architectural firm of Delano & Aldrich....
Read the storyCommercial · 1901-02
452 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The Knox Building, one of the finest Beaux-Arts style commercial buildings in the city, was designed by the notable New York City architect John H. Duncan. Built in 1902-02 as the headquarters of the Knox Hat...
Read the storyTheater · 1873
74 East 4th Street, New York, NY
The four-story, red brick-clad Aschenbroedel Verein Building, in today’s East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, was constructed in 1873 to the design of German-born architect August H. Blankenstein for this...
Read the storyResidential · 1869
20 East 127th Street, New York, NY
This modest brownstone rowhouse, built in 1869, was designed in the Italianate style by architect Alexander Wilson. Built by two real estate developers, James Meagher and Thomas Hanson, it is typical of...
Read the storyResidential · 1933-34
211 East 48th Street, New York, NY
The Lescaze House of 1933-34, designed by William Lescaze for his own use as a combined residence and architectural office, is an embodiment of the theory and practice of one of the most influential exponents...
Read the storyCommercial · 1950-52
390 Park Avenue, New York, NY
Lever House, situated on the west side of Park Avenue between East 53rd Street and East 54th Street is a 24-story glass and stainless steel clad office building composed of a vertical slab rising above a...
Read the storyCommercial · 1909-10
55 Liberty Street, New York, NY
Liberty Tower, designed by Henry Ives Cobb and built in 1909-10, is one of the early group of romantic skyscrapers which changed the skyline of New York in the 20th century. Built shortly after the Singer...
Read the storyTheater · 1926-27
31 Canal Street, New York, NY
The Loew’s Canal Street Theatre at 31 Canal Street on Manahattan’s Lower East Side was constructed as a neighborhood movie house in 1926-27 at the beginning of what is generally regarded as the Golden Age of...
Read the storyCommercial · 1932
322 Church Street, New York, NY
The Long Distance Building of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company was designed by noted architect Ralph Walker, a specialist in the design of communications buildings and partner in the office of...
Read the storyCommercial · 1948-50
488 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
The 21-story Look Building dates to 1948-50, when the minimalist aesthetics of European Modernism first began to transform the character of “setback” office buildings. Located on the west side of Madison...
Read the storyCommercial · 1913-14
434 5th Avenue, New York, NY
Lord & Taylor is one of New York City’s oldest retail stores and a recognized innovator in the history of department stores. The store traces its origins to the dry goods store established on Catherine Street...
Read the storyEducational · 1916
165 West 57th Street, New York, NY
The Louis H. Chalif Normal School of Dancing was built in 1916 to the design of architects G[eorge]. A. & H[enry]. Boehm. Louis Chalif (1876-1948), born in Odessa, Russia, and trained in ballet there,...
Read the storyTheater · 1925-26
189 2nd Avenue, New York, NY
The Louis N. Jaffe Art Theater (Yiddish Art Theater/Yiddish Folks designed by the prolific theater architect Harrison G. Wiseman, was constructed in 1925-26 for Louis N. Jaffe, a Brooklyn lawyer and prominent...
Read the storyLibrary · 1895-97
Low Memorial Library, New York, NY
Low Memorial Library is a majestic building of truly monumental proportions. It is situated on a slight rise overlooking the south campus of Columbia University. This Roman stone building, designed in the form...
Read the storyResidential · 1915
15 East 96th Street, New York, NY
The former Dahlgren House is located on the north side of East 96th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues in the Carnegie Hill section of Manhattan. This neo-French Classic style town house was designed by...
Read the storyTheater · 1909-10
203 West 46th Street, New York, NY
The Lunt-Fontanne Theater survives today as one of the historic theaters that symbolize American theater for both New York and the nation. Built in 1910 as Charles Dillingham's Globe Theater, and designed by...
Read the storyTheater · 1903
157 West 45th Street, New York, NY
The Lyceum Theatre, the oldest playhouse in New York City still serving the legitimate stage, was opened on November 2, 1903, under the management of Daniel Froham. Designed by the firm of Herts & Tallant,...
Read the storyBridge · 1890-95
Macombs Dam Bridge, New York, NY
The Macomb's Dam Bridge (originally Central Bridge) and 155th Street Viaduct, constructed in 1890-95 to the designs of eminent structural engineer Alfred Pancoast Boller, for the N.Y.C. Departments of Public...
Read the storyCommercial · 1924-25
181 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
The Madison-Belmont Building, a transitional style building combining neo-Renaissance with early modern designs, incorporates many ideas from the growing European modern movement. The building was designed by...
Read the storyResidential · 1930-31
115 Central Park West, New York, NY
The Majestic is one of five towered skyscraper apartment buildings which define the impressive skyline of Central Park West. Erected in 1930-31 by the Chanin Construction Company, headed by architect and...
Read the storyTheater · 1926-27
257 West 44th Street, New York, NY
The Majestic Theater survives today as one of the historic theaters that symbolize American theater for both New York and the nation. Built in 1926-27, the Majestic was among the half-dozen theaters...
Read the storyResidential · 1899-1901
2825 Broadway, New York, NY
Erected at the turn of the century, when the Upper West Side of Manhattan became the center of apartment house construction in the city, the Manhasset is one of the city's most imposing apartment houses. The...
Read the storyCommercial · 1929-30
40 Wall Street, New York, NY
The Manhattan Company Building, planned as the tallest building in the world, was constructed in 1929-30. When the project was announced in April 1929, the Manhattan Company, located at 40 Wall Street, had...
Read the storyEducational · 1912-13
7 East 96th Street, New York, NY
There is an air of gaiety and frivolous vitality in the architectural character of this French Renaissance townhouse, that is both refreshing and stimulating. Typically French are not only the plan of this...
Read the storyResidential · 1947-51
200 East 66th Street, New York, NY
Manhattan House, an Upper East Side apartment and retail complex, was constructed between 1947 and 1951. Commissioned by the New York Life Insurance Company, it occupies an entire block, bounded by East 65th...
Read the storyHotel · 1901-02
14 West 44th Street, New York, NY
The Hotel Mansfield is a 12-story, red-brick and limestone Beaux-Arts style hotel located on the same prestigious Midtown block as the New York Yacht Club, the former Yale Club, the Harvard Club, the former...
Read the storyCommercial · 1950-52
600 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The Manufacturers Hanover Trust Building (originally the 600 Fifth Avenue Building), built in 1950-52, was the last addition to the Rockefeller Center complex, east of Sixth Avenue, replacing the building of...
Read the storyBank · 1907
79 8th Avenue, New York, NY
In the wake of the World's Colmnbian Exposition of 1893 which spawned the Academic Classical Movement throughout America, the neo-classical style virtually became a formula solution for bank design....
Read the storyReligious · 1851-54
275 5th Avenue, New York, NY
As its name implies, the material used on the exterior of this Church is marble. This striking edifice, with a tower and spire which resembles that of a New England wooden church, commands a corner site, where...
Read the storyReligious · 1842
12 Oliver Street, New York, NY
This small rectangular building was the basic type of church structure during the Greek Revival period of the 1830's and 40's. The recessed portico with its two handsome Ionic columns is flanked on either side...
Read the storyTheater · 1929
217 West 51st Street, New York, NY
The Mark Hellinger Theater survives today as one of the few intact grand movie palaces in Manhattan, as well as one of the historic theaters that symbolize American theater for both New York and the nation....
Read the storyHotel · 1901-03
30 East 30th Street, New York, NY
The Renaissance Revival style Martha Washington Hotel was the first hotel built in New York to provide housing for professional women. Although increasing numbers of women were joining the work force,...
Read the storyTheater · 1923-24
314 West 45th Street, New York, NY
The Martin Beck Theater survives today as one of the historic theaters that symbolize American theater for both New York and the nation. It was built in 1923-24 by Martin Beck, a West Coast producer who had...
Read the storyResidential · 1880-81
124 E 55th Street, New York, NY
The Mary Hale Cunningham House resulted from the 1909 remodeling, with a front extension, of a French Flats building originally constructed in 1880-81. The new facade was designed by Harrie T. Lindeberg, of...
Read the storyCommercial · 1930-31
330 West 42nd Street, New York, NY
The 35-story blue-green McGraw-Hill Building sitting in the midst of parking lots , tenements and a bus station on the west side of Midtown, has been unique since its completion in 1931. Since its creation,...
Read the storyReligious · 1884-85
151 West 128th Street, New York, NY
Designed in two sections by different architects, the Metropolitan Baptist Church (originally the New York Presbyterian Church) is a fine example of the many new churches built in Harlem during the late 19th...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1892-94
11 East 60th Street, New York, NY
Described by the 19th-century architectural historian Montgomery Schuyler as "the largest, most imposing, and most luxurious of the club-houses of New York" the Metropolitan Club Building was designed by...
Read the storyCommercial · 1907-08
1 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company tower, designed by Pierre L. LeBrun of Napoleon LeBrun & Sons, is a major and memorable evocation of the world-famous campanile in Venice's Saint Mark's Square (Plate...
Read the storyMuseum · 1880; Fifth Avenue facade 1902; later additions
1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The Met opened at its present site in 1880, in a Gothic building designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould. Later additions surrounded that first structure. The familiar Fifth Avenue facade and Great Hall,...
Read the storyResidential · 1862
36 East 38th Street, New York, NY
In 1902-03 the prominent architectural firm of Hoppin & Koen remodeled a c.1862 brownstone row house to create this impressive Beaux Arts style mansion for Middleton S. Burrill and his wife Emilie Neilson...
Read the storyTheater · 1932-33
2626 Broadway, New York, NY
The Midtown Theater (now Metro Theater), a rare surviving small Art Deco style neighborhood movie theater, has one of the finest facades of its type in New York City. Among the Art Deco buildings in New York...
Read the storyResidential · 1907-09
351 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
The imposing marble residence at the northeast corner of Riverside Drive and 107th Street was built for Morris Schinasi between 1907 and 1909. Designed by William B. Tuthill in the manner of a French chateau,...
Read the storyResidential · 1934-35
219 East 49th Street, New York, NY
Morris B. Sanders, Jr. designed and built 219 East 49 Street in 1934-35. Located in the Turtle Bay section of Manhattan, between Second and Third Avenues, this building was one of the earliest structures in...
Read the storyResidential · 1765
65 Jumel Terrace, New York, NY
Of this impressively handsome pre-Revolutionary Georgian Mansion, it can truly be said that Washington slept there. This historic house with its columned and pedimented portico displays a true feeling of...
Read the storyCommercial · 1878-80
142 Nassau Street, New York, NY
The current form of the Morse Building results from three periods of construction: the original (1878-80), as well as alterations in 1901-02 and c. 1965. Today, the structure’s 6-story midsection, with two...
Read the storyResidential · 1897-99
5 West 54th Street, New York, NY
This handsome, meticulously detailed town house was built in 1897-99 for Dr. Moses Allen Starr , one of America's leading, neurologists. Designed in the neo-Renaissance style using principals of Beaux Arts...
Read the storyReligious · 1923-25
148 West 137th Street, New York, NY
In 1914, when Mother Zion moved to Harlem, the black population of that community was centered on the streets of the West 130s, between Fifth and Eighth avenues. Not just Mother Zion, but others of New York's...
Read the storyBank · 1883-84
81 East 125th Street, New York, NY
The Mount Morris Bank Building, one of the most impressive buildings in Harlem, is prominently situated at the northwest corner of East 125th Street (the major commercial artery of Harlem) and Park Avenue,...
Read the storyResidential · 1913-21
3 East 95th Street, New York, NY
The building at 3 East 95th Street was built between 1913 and 1921 as a New York version of a Louis XVI Parisian house. This dignified residence, executed in the best tradition of 18th-century French...
Read the storyLibrary · 1906
209 W 23rd Street, New York, NY
Opened on February 19, 1906, the neoClassical Muhlenberg Branch was the eleventh Carnegie branch built in Manhattan and the twenty-eighth of sixty-seven branch libraries built in New York City, with Andrew...
Read the storyCommercial · 1941-44
555 E 90th Street, New York, NY
The Municipal Asphalt Plant, built in 1941-44, was designed by the prominent New York City architects Ely Jacques Kahn and Robert Allan Jacobs for the Office of the Borough President of Manhattan. The asphalt...
Read the storyCommercial · 1914
Chambers Street & Centre Street, New York, NY
The Municipal Building is an impressive Classical skyscraper, rising to a height of 25 stories with a tower above. It represents an effort made by the City, through the use of noted architects and sculptors,...
Read the storyMuseum · 1929
1227 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The use of the Late Georgian Style of architecture for the Museum of the City of New York was appropriate for this structure. Dignified in appearance, symmetrical in plan, the five-story red brick building...
Read the storyTheater · 1920
247 West 45th Street, New York, NY
The Music Box Theater survives today as one of the historic playhouses that symbolize American theater for both New York and the nation. Constructed shortly after the end of World War I, the Music Box was...
Read the storyCommercial · 1892-94
305 Broadway, New York, NY
The 13-story (plus basement) Mutual Reserve Building (1892-94), located on the northwest corner of Broadway and Duane Street, is one of New York City’s most significant examples of a tall late-19th-century...
Read the storyResidential · 1913-15
1130 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The National Audubon Society occupies an outstanding example of early Twentieth Century residential architecture, designed in the best tradition of the American town house.
Read the storyResidential · 1906-07
98 4th Avenue, New York, NY
This handsome building is one of the finest in the City. It is an integral part of a picturesque group of buildings, all designed in similar style, that form part of the Grace Church complex, and it is a part...
Read the storyTheater · 1913-15
466 Grand Street, New York, NY
The Neighborhood Playhouse was constructed in 1913-15 by sisters Alice and Irene Lewisohn as part of the Henry Street Settlement. A theatrical group by the same name founded by Lewisohn sisters was located...
Read the storyTheater · 1902–1903
214 West 42nd Street, New York, NY
The New Amsterdam Theater opened on October 26, 1903. Herts & Tallant designed it for producers Klaw & Erlanger, combining a main auditorium, a rooftop theater, and an office tower. Its Art Nouveau ornament...
Read the storyResidential · 1914
100 East 85th Street, New York, NY
This large red brick town house is an exceptionally fine example of an early 20th Century town house designed in the neo-Federal style. It is located at the southeast corner of Park Avenue and East 85th...
Read the storyCommercial · 1927-29
230 Park Avenue, New York, NY
The New York Central Building is the skyscraping counterpart of Grand Central Terminal. It was designed by the same architects in the same materials and Beaux-Arts style, simultaneously developing some of the...
Read the storyGraveyard · 1831
74 East 2nd Avenue, New York, NY
It was laid out on some land belonging to Samuel Cowdrey, a vault owner In the other cemetery. Once again Perkins Nichols contracted for the construction of the vaults of Tuckahoe marble. The first vaults were...
Read the storyCivic · 1912
60 Centre Street, New York, NY
The portico on the front of this great courthouse creates an extremely imposing entrance with its monumental columns and pediment surmounted by three large, sculptured figures. The sides of the building repeat...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1930
14 Vesey Street, New York, NY
This building is four stories high, and above the third floor there is an attic story set back behind a handsome rail (balustrade) and roof deck. The building is an example of Federal Eclectic architecture. It...
Read the storyCommercial · 1920-21
86 Trinity Place, New York, NY
The New York Curb Exchange, later called the American Stock Exchange, was constructed in two phases, the western portion in 1920-21 and the eastern portion in 1930-31. Located on an L-shaped mid-block parcel...
Read the storyCommercial · 1926-28
51 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
The 40-story tower for the New York Life Insurance Company, one of the "big three" insurance companies, was designed by noted architect Cass Gilbert in 1926 and constructed in 1927-28. The building is...
Read the storyGraveyard · 1830
64 East 2nd Street, New York, NY
This obscure and dignified cemetery, once located in a fashionable neighborhood, is largely surrounded by houses and tenements today. It is entered through iron gates protecting both ends of a long passage...
Read the storyLibrary · 1898-1911
476 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The Central Building of the New York Public Library occupies a fabulous site, that has often been referred to as "the crossroads of the world". This majestic marble building, one of the masterpieces of the...
Read the storyLibrary · 1904
224 East 125th Street, New York, NY
The 125th Street Branch of The New York Public Library is notable for being one of the Carnegie libraries and a significant Renaissance Revival style building by the important firm of McKim, Mead, & White.
Read the storyLibrary · 1898-99
174 East 110th Street, New York, NY
The Aguilar Branch of the New York Public Library initially was built for the Aguilar Free Library Society, which was founded in 1886 as an independent library to provide circulating books for immigrant Jews....
Read the storyLibrary · 1914-15
518 West 125th Street, New York, NY
The striking brick and limestone George Bruce Library building is an excellent example of Georgian Revival-style civic architecture, designed by the prominent architecture firm of Carrere & Hastings. The firm...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1913-18
370 Park Avenue, New York, NY
The club, first organized in 1873 as the Racquet Court Club, occupied a building at 55 West 26th Street. However, it was incorporated on February 21, 1890, as the Racquet and Tennis Club "to encourage all...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1909-10
3 West 64th Street, New York, NY
The meeting house of the New York Society for Ethical Culture is one of the finest works of the architect Robert D. Kohn and one of the few buildings in New York City designed in the Art Nouveau style. Built...
Read the storyCommercial · 1901-03
18 Broad Street, New York, NY
George B. Post designed the New York Stock Exchange's Broad Street building, which opened in 1903. Its monumental columns frame a large wall of glass built to admit daylight to the trading floor. The classical...
Read the storyCommercial · 1912-13
247 West 43rd Street, New York, NY
Built in three stages between 1912 and 1932, the New York Times Building reflects both the development of the Times Square neighborhood and the history of one of the most highly-respected newspapers in the...
Read the storyEducational · 1924-26
465 West 135th Street, New York, NY
The New York Training School for Teachers/New York Model School was built in 1924-26 to the design of William H. Gompert, Architect and Superintendent of School Buildings for the Board of Education, and...
Read the storyEducational · 1909-12
1 East 78th Street, New York, NY
The impressive splendor of the Duke mansion is achieve through the simple grandeur of the French Classical style of Louis XV. It was designed in 1909 by the well-known architect, Horace Trumbauer of...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1899-1900
37 West 44th Street, New York, NY
A brilliant synthesis of the Beaux-Arts tenets of character and composition, the New York Yacht Club Building marked the debut of the noted New York architectural firm of Warren & Wetmore. Built in 1899-1900...
Read the storyCommercial · 1888-90
330 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
The former New-York Cab Company Stable is a striking reminder of the time when horse-drawn carriages crowded Manhattan streets. Built in 1888-90, 318-330 Amsterdam Avenue was one of the earliest commercial...
Read the storyResidential · 1890-91
345 Edgecombe Avenue, New York, NY
The Nicholas C. and Agnes Benziger House is one of Harlem's last remaining freestanding mansions. Benziger, a Swiss emigre, was a successful publisher, manufacturer, and importer of books and articles used in...
Read the storyCommercial · 1875-76
8 Thomas Street, New York, NY
Described by the prominent architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock as one of the handsomest specimens of High Victorian Gothic 'architecture which survives in the city," the building at 8 Thomas Street...
Read the storyResidential · 1938-39
140 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
The Normandy Apartments is one of the most outstanding apartment buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side. A large eighteen-story (with nineteenth-story penthouse) twin-towered structure overlooking the Hudson...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1847-48
171 Grand Street, New York, NY
Located on a prominent site on Grand Street, between Centre and Baxter Streets, the Odd Fellows Hall was designed by the architectural firm of Joseph Trench and John Butler Snook. Built in 1847-46, it is an...
Read the storyResidential · 1831-32
29 East 4th Street, New York, NY
The Old Merchant's House is a brick town house with three stories, a basement and an attic. Completed in 1832, it was one in a row of six. Joseph Brewster built the houses and lived in number 29 until it was...
Read the storyReligious · 1809-15
263 Mulberry Street, New York, NY
Although only the shell of this building remained intact after the church was completely gutted by a fire in 1836, the original Cathedral, when completed in 1815, was one of the earliest examples of Gothic...
Read the storyReligious · 1826
32 Prince Street, New York, NY
This Late Federal Style institutional building was a popular type in the post-Revolutionary period* This three story brick structure with attic and low basement, retains a great deal of its original character....
Read the storyResidential · 1898-99
7 East 72nd Street, New York, NY
The Oliver Gould Jennings residence on East 72nd Street is an especially opulent and handsome example of a Beaux-Arts townhouse-. Designed in 1898 by the Paris-trained architects Ernest Flagg and Walter B....
Read the storyCommercial · 1957-64
48 Liberty Street, New York, NY
Faced with shimmering panels of natural color and black-enameled aluminum, H-shaped mullions and glass, One Chase Manhattan Plaza is among the largest and most important 20th century skyscrapers in New York...
Read the storyResidential · 1883-89
205 West 57th Street, New York, NY
The Osborne Apartments, built in 1883-85 and designed by the talented and prolific architect James E. Ware, was one of the earliest luxury apartment buildings in New York City. Constructed in what by 1890 had...
Read the storyResidential · 1913-18
1 East 91st Street, New York, NY
Built for Otto H. Kahn (1867-1934), banker, philanthropist and patron of the arts, this imposing residence, occupied since 1934 by The Convent of the Sacred Heart, was begun in 1913 and completed only in 1918,...
Read the storyReligious · 1902-04
467 West 142nd Street, New York, NY
Constructed on the north side of West 142nd Street, Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church is located on a mid-block site measuring 75 by 100 feet. Built by the O' Reilly Brothers in 1902-04, the firm's...
Read the storyResidential · 1927-28
3 Mitchell Place, New York, NY
Prominently sited at the top of Beekman Hill, the Panhellenic Tower (now the Beekman Tower Hotel) is one of the great Art Deco skyscrapers in Midtown Manhattan. Erected in 1927-29 as a residence and clubhouse...
Read the storyHotel · 1927-28
245 West 46th Street, New York, NY
The Paramount Hotel was constructed in 1927-28 as part of an extensive building and expansion drive in the Times Square theater district during that period. One of a very few hotels designed by noted theater...
Read the storyReligious · 1889-90
163 East 67th Street, New York, NY
Unlike most congregations which were formed by groups of Jews of Similar national origin, Zichron Ephraim founded because of the personal convictions of Rabbi Bernard Drachman (1861-1945), and his...
Read the storyCommercial · 1896-99
15 Park Row, New York, NY
The 30-story, 391-foot-high Park Row Building was the tallest building in New York City and one of the tallest structures in the world between 1899, the year of its completion, and 1908. Located on Park Row...
Read the storyReligious · 1897
332 East 88th Street, New York, NY
The dignified three-story French Renaissance Parsonage of Holy Trinity Church is one of the three separate entities comprising this unusual ecclesiastical complex. This building is constructed of the same...
Read the storyResidential · c. 1860s
23 Beekman Place, New York, NY
The Paul Rudolph Penthouse & Apartments is located on Beekman Place, a small residential enclave in the Turtle Bay section of Manhattan. Close to the East River, this street extends just two blocks, from...
Read the storyResidential · 1902-06
972 5th Avenue, New York, NY
This mansion stands out on its own architectural merit, on the last remaining blockfront of imposing town houses on Fifth Avenue. The gracious curve of the light gray granite front, about forty feet wide,...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1900-01
32 West 44th Street, New York, NY
The former Yale Club of New York City Building is located along “clubhouse row,” West 44th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, its neighbors including the Harvard Club, New York Yacht Club, Association of...
Read the storyTransit · 1917-19
Park Ave & E 42nd St, New York, NY
Located at Park Avenue and 42nd Street, the Pershing Square Viaduct was constructed in 1917-1919. The viaduct extends from 40th Street to Grand Central Terminal at 42nd Street, linking upper and lower Park...
Read the storyResidential · 1852
231 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
The Phelps Stokes - J. P. Morgan, Jr. House is a rare surviving freestanding mansion in midtown Manhattan, recalling the initial residential development of Murray Hill. Notable for its associations with two...
Read the storyTransit · 1884-86
Battery Park, New York, NY
Pier A, a picturesque structure jutting into Upper New York Bay, is the last survivor of a maritime complex in the area that once included a firehouse and wharf, a breakwater, a boat landing, and just to the...
Read the storyMuseum · 1903-06
33 East 36th Street, New York, NY
The original building of the Pierpont Morgan Library,designed in the Italian Renaissance Eclectic Style, was built in 1906 to house Mr. Morgan's collection of paintings, sculpture and his valuable library....
Read the storyReligious · 1903-04
15 Pike Street, New York, NY
The Pike Street Synagogue, constructed in 1903-04 for the Congregation Sons of Israel Kalwarie, is a rare surviving synagogue building from that period of New York's history when the Lower East Side served as...
Read the storyTheater · 1917-18
234 West 45th Street, New York, NY
The Plymouth Theater survives today as one of the historic theaters that symbolize American theater for both New York and the nation. Built in 1917-18, the Plymouth was one of a pair with the Broadhurst and...
Read the storyEducational · 1855
34 East 12th Street, New York, NY
Located on the south side of East 12th Street between Broadway and University Place, this building originally housed Grammar School 47, which was one of the first New York City schools built exclusively for...
Read the storyResidential · 1921
261 West 94th Street, New York, NY
Numbers 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22, Pomander Walk, 261, 263,265,267, West 94th Street, and 260,262,264,266,270,272,274, West 95th Street.
Read the storyCommercial · 1883-86
38 Park Row, New York, NY
The eleven-story Potter Building was commissioned by Orlando B. Potter, a prominent figure in New York politics with prime commercial real estate holdings in Manhattan, and constructed in 1883-86 to the design...
Read the storyRecreational · 1904-06
383 Asser Levy Place, New York, NY
The Public Baths were built between 1904 and 1906 by the City of New York. The building was designed by Arnold W. Brunner and william Martin Aiken, asso-ciated architects for this project. Public baths were a...
Read the storyBank · 1923
106 Avenue C, New York, NY
The Public National Bank of New York Building in the East Village is a highly unusual American structure displaying the direct influence of the early-twentieth-century modernism of eminent Viennese...
Read the storyEducational · 1897-99
132 West 89th Street, New York, NY
Built in 1897-99, Public School 166 is one of the few remaining nineteenth-century institutional buildings, and one of the oldest extant public schools, on the Upper West Side. The school was designed by New...
Read the storyEducational · 1879-82
1674 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Built in 1879-82, Public School 72 was the work of David I. Stagg, whose career in public school architecture spanned more than half a century and who was Superintendent of Public School Buildings for the New...
Read the storyCommercial · 1885-86
309 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
The Puck Building, originally the home of Puck magazine, is one of the great surviving buildings from New York's old publishing and printing district. The red-brick round-arched structure occupies the entire...
Read the storyBridge · 1901-09
Queensboro Bridge, New York, NY
After the close of the Civil War, there were a number of proposals calling for the construction of bridges across the East River to facilitate communications between York City, the City of Brooklyn and the...
Read the storyCommercial · 1897
56 West 14th Street, New York, NY
Located near the intersection of 14th Street and Sixth Avenue in the midst of New York City’s then-primary retail shopping district, Ladies’ Mile, the R.H. Macy & Co. Store, 14th Street Annex was the last...
Read the storyResidential · 1837-38
110 2nd Avenue, New York, NY
The grand three-story (plus attic and basement) Greek Revival style rowhouse at No. 110 Second Avenue, in today’s East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, is the only survivor of a row of four houses that...
Read the storyReligious · 1888-89
18 West 122nd Street, New York, NY
Saint Martin's Rectory adjoins the rear of the St. Martin's Church on 122nd Street. This three and one half story rugged Romanesque Revival building has great dignity and architectural character. The...
Read the storyReligious · 1913-14
409 West 114th Street, New York, NY
The Rectory of Notre Dame is a handsome three story building of gray brick and stone designed as a modified version of a Sixteenth Century palazzo. It has a wide front facade but comparatively little depth in...
Read the storyResidential · 1903-04
350 West 85th Street, New York, NY
Red House, an exceptionally handsome apartment building, located at 350 West 85th Street near the southeast corner of West 85th Street and Riverside Drive, was built in 1903-04. An early building designed by...
Read the storyTheater · 1912-13
1916 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr Blvd, New York, NY
The Regent Theater is one of New York City's most significant surviving early motion picture theater buildings. Constructed in 1912-13, during the period that the motion picture business made the transition...
Read the storyResidential · 1925-27
465 Park Avenue, New York, NY
The Ritz Tower Apartment Hotel was constructed in 1925 at the premier crossroads of New York's Upper East Side, the corner of 57th Street and Park Avenue, where the exclusive shops and artistic enterprises of...
Read the storyCommercial · 1907-08
712 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The Rizzoli Building, unlit in 1901-08, is not only a significant reminder of fifth Avenue at the turn of the century, when the avenue, south of 59th Street, was shifting from residential to commercial use,...
Read the storyCommercial · 1879-80
5 Bond Street, New York, NY
The Robbins & Appleton Building at 1-5 Bond Street, an excellent example of cast-iron architecture, was designed by Stephen Decatur Hatch. Built between June 4, 1879, and April 30, 1880, it served as a factory...
Read the storyResidential · 1809-10
67 Greenwich Street, New York, NY
The large (nearly 41 by 62 feet), significantly intact Federal style town house at No. 67 Greenwich Street in lower Manhattan was constructed in 1809-10 when this was the most fashionable neighborhood for New...
Read the storyResidential · 1935-37
17 West 54th Street, New York, NY
Rockefeller Apartments, built in 1935-37 and designed by the firm of Harrison & Fouilhoux, are a major example of the International Style. Commis-sioned by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Nelson Rockefeller,...
Read the storyResidential · 1949-50
242 E 52nd Street, New York, NY
Designed by Philip C. Johnson in 1948 and built in 1949-50, the former Rockefeller Guest House is one of the earliest buildings in New York City to reflect the influence of the modern movement in architecture...
Read the storyReligious · 1883-86
47 East 129th Street, New York, NY
The Roman Catholic Church of All Saints, with its lively and animated design and exceptionally fine ornament, was created by one of New York’s leading nineteenth century architects, James Renwick, Jr., of the...
Read the storyResidential · 1930-31
60 East 93rd Street, New York, NY
This very dignified town house, designed for Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt in 1929, is a fine example of the last of that great series of houses which was built before the depression paralyzed building...
Read the storyTheater · 1926-27
242 West 45th Street, New York, NY
The Royale Theater survives today as one of the historic theaters that symbolize American theater for both New York and the nation. Built in 1926-27, the Royale was among the half-dozen theaters constructed by...
Read the storyCommercial · 1912-13
130 East 22nd Street, New York, NY
The Russell Sage Foundation Building was constructed in 1912-13 for the foundation established in 1907 with an unprecedented ten million dollar bequest of Olivia Sage, one of the world's wealthiest and most...
Read the storyBank · 1911-12
54 Canal Street, New York, NY
Called “the first strictly high-class tall bank and office building” on the Lower East Side, with a design “equal in every respect [to] the highest grade banking buildings throughout the city,” the S....
Read the storyReligious · 1907
112 East 106th Street, New York, NY
Saint Cecilia's Convent is in the heart of that section of East part known as "El Barrio" The convent building was altered to its present appearance by Neville & Bagge in 1907. The Convent of Saint Cecilia and...
Read the storyTheater · 1926-27
256 West 44th Street, New York, NY
The St. James (built as the Erlanger) Theater survives today as one of the historic playhouses that symbolize American theater for both New York and the nation. Built in 1926-27, the St. James was designed by...
Read the storyReligious · 1799
131 E 10th St, New York, NY
As seen today, Saint Marks-in-the-Bowery is a church which represents construction over a considerable period of time. The main body of the church with its fieldstone walls and handsomely trimmed round arched...
Read the storyCommercial · 1922-24
611 5th Avenue, New York, NY
Saks Fifth Avenue is one of the grand flagship department stores that turned Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan into the city's and the country's premier shopping street. Saks's move from Herald Square to Fifth...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1853
47 5th Avenue, New York, NY
Of all the mansions which once lined Fifth Avenue, from Washington Square to Central Park., only this one remains to display its original character; It is now the home of the Salmagundi Club.
Read the storyResidential · 1929-30
146 Central Park West, New York, NY
Soaring over Central Park, the profile of the San Remo is among the most important components of the magnificent skyline of Central Park West. The first of the twin-towered buildings which give Central Park...
Read the storyResidential · 1908
49 East 65th Street, New York, NY
The Upper East Side Historic District epitomizes the architectural development of this section of the city in a variety of architectural styles and building types ranging from later 19th-century brownstone...
Read the storyCommercial · 1811–1812; later alterations
2–18 Fulton Street, New York, NY
Schermerhorn Row was built for merchant Peter Schermerhorn in the early 1810s to serve New York's growing port. Its brick buildings combined storage and trade along the waterfront, and the row survived the...
Read the storyLibrary · 1904-05
103 West 135th Street, New York, NY
Built as the West 135th Street Branch Library, the former Schomburg Collection building at 103 West 135th Street was designed in 1904 by the eminent firm of McKim, Mead & White. Small and dignified, the...
Read the storyReligious · 1893-94
157 5th Avenue, New York, NY
This handsome Beaux-Arts office building served for many years as the corporate home of Charles Scribner's Sons, the noted publishing firm now located in mid+own Manhattan. Built in 1893-94, it was designed by...
Read the storyReligious · 1817
Market Street & Henry Street, New York, NY
The attractive Georgian-Gothic church is constructed in a manner simpler than but similar to St. Paul's Chapel although it was built almost fifty years later. It is a survival of the Georgian architectural...
Read the storyCommercial · 1956-58
375 Park Avenue, New York, NY
The Seagram Building, erected in 1956-58, is the only building in New York City designed by architectural master Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Carefully related to the tranquil granite and marble plaza on its Park...
Read the storyReligious · 1850-55
15 West 25th Street, New York, NY
Justly celebrated for its fine proportions, this imposing brownstone structure is an excellent example of the large metropolitan church done in the English Gothic Revival style. It is a pleasing edifice,...
Read the storyArmory · 1877-78
643 Park Avenue, New York, NY
The Seventh Regiment Armory is a rare wedding of two conflicting tendencies of Nineteenth Century architecture. A "fortified'* castle on Park Avenue bristling with battlements immediately announces the...
Read the storyLibrary · 1908-09
192 East Broadway, New York, NY
The Seward Park Branch of the New York Public Library has served the immigrant community of the Lower East Side since it opened its doors on November 11, 1909. This building was one of 20 branch libraries in...
Read the storyTheater · 1912-13
233 West 44th Street, New York, NY
The Shubert Theater survives today as one of the historic theaters that symbolize American theater for both New York and the nation. Built in 1912-13, shortly before World War I, to the designs of Henry B....
Read the storyClock · 1909
200 5th Avenue, New York, NY
One of the most important and essential parts of New York's historical fabric is its "street furniture" -- lamp posts, street clocks, sign posts, and benches that enhance and maintain the intimacy and scale of...
Read the storyClock · 1907
522 5th Avenue, New York, NY
One of the most important and essential parts of New York's historical fabric is its "street furniture" -- lamp posts, street clocks, sign posts, and benches that enhance and maintain the intimacy and scale of...
Read the storyClock · 1927
783 5th Avenue, New York, NY
One of the most important and essential parts of New York's historical fabric is its "street furniture" -- lamp posts, street clocks, sign posts, and benches that enhance and maintain the intimacy and scale of...
Read the storyClock · Unknown
1501 Third Avenue, New York, NY
One of the most important and essential parts of New York's historical fabric is its "street furniture" -- lamp posts, street clocks, sign posts, and benches that enhance and maintain the intimacy and scale of...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1896-97
220 West 57th Street, New York, NY
Built in 1896-97 to the French Renaissance Revival style design of architect Cyrus L.W. Eidlitz, the Society House of the American Society of Civil Engineers was the headquarters of the organization founded in...
Read the storyCommercial · 1954-56
150 East 42nd Street, New York, NY
A curtain wall of seven thousand embossed stainless steel panels gives the Socony-Mobil Building a unique presence on the midtown skyline. Constructed between 1954 and 1956, this impressive skyscraper fills an...
Read the storyCommercial · 1929-30
43 West 61st Street, New York, NY
The Art Deco Sofia Brothers Warehouse was designed by the firm of Jardine, Hill & Murdoch as one of two Kent Automatic Parking Garages. Built in 1929-30, the garage used a patented automatic parking system in...
Read the storyMuseum · 1956-59
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY
Frank Lloyd Wright received the commission for the Guggenheim in 1943. The museum opened on October 21, 1959, six months after his death. Its spiral form proposed a different kind of art museum, with a...
Read the storyResidential · 1925-26
684 Park Avenue, New York, NY
This house is a part of that outstanding group of neo-Federal townhouses which extends along the west side of Park Avenue, between East 68th and 69th Streets, sometimes referred to as the "Pyne-Davison...
Read the storyCommercial · 1961-63
104 West 40th Street, New York, NY
The Springs Mills Building is a 21-story office tower located in midtown Manhattan on a mid-block site, close to Bryant Park and just south of Times Square. Constructed in 1961-63 for a leading American...
Read the storyArmory · 1895
Madison Ave & E 94th St, New York, NY
The two brick towers of the Madison Avenue front of the Squadron "A" Armory evoke strong memories of a fortified medieval castle. This last remaining wall with the towers at each corner, executed in military...
Read the storyReligious · 1902-04
217 West 132nd Street, New York, NY
The richly ornamented, polychrome St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church was built in 1902-04 to the design of William W. Renwick based on Italian Gothic prototypes, an unusual source of stylistic inspiration for...
Read the storyReligious · 1889-91
2067 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The architectural composition of Saint Andrew's Church is distinctive and picturesque in the Gothic manner. Constructed of rock faced granite, the Church's rugged appearance has a solid quality and great...
Read the storyReligious · 1829
290 Henry Street, New York, NY
St. Augustine's Chapel, formerly All Saints Church, is one of those interesting churches of the Federal Period which clung conservatively to the basic Georgian church form. In the Federal manner, its central...
Read the storyReligious · 1917-19
109 East 50th Street, New York, NY
Imposing in mass, striking in appearance and in form, this impressive church occupies a prominent Park Avenue site where it sits enthroned in all its splendor. One of the most striking features of St....
Read the storyReligious · 1883-87
120 East 106th Street, New York, NY
Saint Cecilia's Church, in the heart of, that section of East Harlem known as "El Barrio," was completed in 1887 according to the designs of the noted architectural firm of Napoleon Le Brun & Sons. Saint...
Read the storyReligious · 1846-56
E 16th St & Rutherford Pl, New York, NY
Many buildings in New York are difficult to encompass fully because they are so often located in blocks facing on narrow streets. In the case of St. George's Church, however, beautifully located on a corner...
Read the storyReligious · 1835-37
32 James Street, New York, NY
St. James Roman Catholic Church is one of the monuments of the Greek Revival in New York City, due to the beautiful proportions of its elements and to the refinement of its Greek detail. This handsome church...
Read the storyReligious · 1910-13
1071 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Ordered but vital monumentality is the quality with which the St. Jean Baptiste Church impresses on the passerby. Nicholas Sirracino designed it in the style of the Italian Renaissance with a four-column...
Read the storyHospital · 1904-06
401 West 113th Street, New York, NY
The Plant and Scrymser Pavilions for Private Patients (1904-06 and 1926-28) are two of the six surviving buildings of eight constructed to designs by architect Ernest Flagg at St. Luke's Hospital in...
Read the storyReligious · 1887-88
230 Lenox Avenue, New York, NY
The beautiful Romanesque Revival Church of St. Martin's can be seen from many blocks away as its impressive tower rises above the surrounding house tops. This high tower with its narrow arched openings, is the...
Read the storyReligious · 1908-09
523 West 126th Street, New York, NY
St. Mary's Protestant Episcopa) Church in Manhattanville has been in continuous service for almost 175 years on its original site. In 1823, the village founders solicited the Rev. William Richmond, rector of...
Read the storyReligious · 1858-59
266 Mulberry Street, New York, NY
St. Michael's Chapel of Old St. Patrick's Cathedral, a fine example of Gothic Revival architecture, was built in 1858-59 as a chancery office and was designed by James Renwick, Jr., in association with William...
Read the storyReligious · 1882-83
288 East 10th Street, New York, NY
This lively and picturesque brick and terra cotta church complex was constructed in 1882-83 as the Memorial Chapel of St. Mark’s Parish, and was donated to the church by Rutherford Stuyvesant in memory of his...
Read the storyReligious · 1902
15 East 97th Street, New York, NY
St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral was built in 1901-02 from the designs of John Bergesen, a New York City architect of Russian origin. Its style is derived from Baroque architecture as it had evolved in...
Read the storyReligious · 1858-79
50th Street & 5th Avenue, New York, NY
James Renwick designed St. Patrick's Cathedral for a site on Fifth Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets. Its cornerstone was laid in 1858, but the Civil War and funding difficulties interrupted construction....
Read the storyReligious · 1904-07
Amsterdam Avenue & 117th Street, New York, NY
St. Paul's Chapel attains an altogether pleasing dignity from its beautiful proportions and handsome architectural details. This brick building with limestone trim is highlighted with terra cotta ornament and...
Read the storyReligious · 1764-66
Broadway & Fulton Street, New York, NY
Among the very few Eighteenth Century buildings which remain to us today, St. Paul's Chapel is undoubtedly the most notable both architecturally and historically. The fact that it is the oldest existing church...
Read the storyReligious · 1836-40
22 Barclay Street, New York, NY
St. Peter's Church is an impressive granite building with a fine six-columned portico and a low-angled gable (pediment). The extreme simplicity of the smooth masonry walls lends an air of great dignity to this...
Read the storyReligious · 1910-11
216 West 134th Street, New York, NY
St. Philip's Protestant Episcopal Church, built in 1910-11, is the fourth home of New York City's first African-American congregation of Protestant Episcopalians. From its beginnings as the African Episcopal...
Read the storyReligious · 1853-54
151 East 28th Street, New York, NY
St. Stephen’s Church (The Church of Our Lady of the Scapular and St. Stephen) is a particularly early example of the Romanesque Revival style, located on East 28th Street near Murray Hill and Kips Bay in...
Read the storyReligious · 1909-14
3 West 53rd Street, New York, NY
To many, this Church is the most beautiful in the City. Although influenced by French Gothic architecture, this limestone structure is quite unlike any Gothic Church to be found on the continent. Its detail is...
Read the storyReligious · 1930
151 East 65th Street, New York, NY
The St. Vincent Ferrer Complex consists of four buildings: the church , the priory, the Holy Name Society Building, and the school, all of which display elements based on the Gothic style and form a unified...
Read the storyCommercial · 1921-28
26 Broadway, New York, NY
The Standard Oil Building, largely erected between 1921 and 1926 and finally completed in 1928, incorporates the company's original building (built in 1884-85 and enlarged in 1895). Designed by Thomas Hastings...
Read the storyCommercial · 1930-31
625 West 26th Street, New York, NY
The Starrett-Lehigh Building, constructed in 1930-31 by architects Russell G. and Walter M. Cory with Yasuo Matsui as associate architect and Purdy & Henderson as consulting engineers, is an enormous warehouse...
Read the storyMuseum · 1886
Liberty Island, New York, NY
Dedicated on October 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the United States. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi designed the figure, Eiffel and Company developed its supporting framework, and...
Read the storyCommercial · 1924-25
113 West 57th Street, New York, NY
The sixteen-story Steinway Hall was constructed in 1924-25 to the design of architects Warren & Wetmore for Steinway & Sons, a piano manufacturing firm that has been a dominant force in its industry since the...
Read the storyResidential · 1816
149 Mulberry Street, New York, NY
The Stephen Van Rensselaer House is a good example of a small early Nineteenth Century Federal style house. The two story structure, with basement and attic, is typical of the modest dwellings described by...
Read the storyCommercial · 1914
404 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The Stewart & Company Building, designed by Warren and Wetmore, is one of the firm’s most unusual designs. The 1914 building reflects the unusual combination of diverse influences such as the 18th century...
Read the storyHospital · 1883-84
137 2nd Avenue, New York, NY
The Stuyvesant Polyclinic, formerly the German Dispensary, was designed by William Schickel, a German born architect. In an interesting exuberant version of the neo-Italian Renaissance style, the building is...
Read the storyResidential · 1803-04
21 Stuyvesant Street, New York, NY
Twenty-One Stuyvesant Street is a brick Federal Style residence with three full floors and an attic. In its architecture, the Stuyvesant-Fish House displays beauty of proportion, notable restraint and those...
Read the storyHotel · 1959-61
573 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Admired for its unusual shape, color, and stainless steel sign, the Summit Hotel is an important work by Morris Lapidus. Begun in 1959, it was the first hotel built in Manhattan in three decades and the...
Read the storyCommercial · 1845-46
280 Broadway, New York, NY
The Sun Building, originally the A.T. Stewart Store, is one of the most influential buildings erected in New York City during the 19th century. Its appearance in 1846 introduced a new architectural mode based...
Read the storyCivic · 1899-1911
31 Chambers Street, New York, NY
The Surrogate's Court was designed in the French Classic Eclectic Style and is a fine example of civic architecture at the turn of the Century. Representative of a period when the Municipality of New York felt...
Read the storyCommercial · 1857-58
122 Chambers Street, New York, NY
Erected in 1857-58 for Emily Jones, a daughter of the late Isaac Jones, third president of Chemical Bank, the Swift, Seaman & Co. Building at 122 Chambers Street extends through the block to 52 Warren Street....
Read the storyCommercial · 1889-90
9 Beekman Street, New York, NY
The Temple Court Building and Annex consists of two connected structures on the designated Landmark Site. The nine-story (ten stories in certain portions) Temple Court Building was commissioned by Eugene...
Read the storyResidential · 1840
Governor's Island, New York, NY
As is befitting the station and importance of an executive officer, The Admiral's House on Governors Island is an elegant late Federal style manor house of imposing scale. This porticoed, rectangular mansion...
Read the storyResidential · 1916-18
145 East 39th Street, New York, NY
Constructed in 1916-18 by architect Arthur Loomis Harmon (1878-1958), the Allerton House at 145 East 39th Street provided the service of a hotel and the intimacy of a private club for young, single men. As...
Read the storyTheater · 1927
254 West 52nd Street, New York, NY
The Alvin Theater survives today as one of the historic theaters that symbolize American theater for both New York and the nation. Built in 1926-27, the Alvin was one of the relatively small number of...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1891-92
215 West 57th Street, New York, NY
The American Fine Arts Society building is a dignified adaptation of a Francis First, French Renaissance town house. The facade displays an air of restrained elegance in its formally balanced composition....
Read the storyMuseum · 1874 onward; first building opened 1877
Central Park West & West 77th Street, New York, NY
The American Museum of Natural History opened its first building on this site in 1877. Designed by Vaux & Mould, it was later enclosed by additions. The long Romanesque Revival front on West 77th Street is the...
Read the storyHotel · 1899--1904
2119 Broadway, New York, NY
This apartment-hotel in the grand French Beaux Arts style occupies the entire blockfront on the west side of Broadway between 73rd and 74th Streets. It rises on its conspicuous site to a height of seventeen...
Read the storyResidential · 1906-08
2201 Broadway, New York, NY
This handsome apartment house built around a large central courtyard fills a short city block between Broadway and West End Avenue. Designed in the Italian Renaissance style by Clinton & Russell for the Astor...
Read the storyBridge · 1912-15
Manhattan Bridge Plaza & Canal Street, New York, NY
New York's first bridges were engineering marvels, but little thought was given to entrances and exits, instead focusing primarily on the river crossing. That changed with the evolution of the City Beautiful...
Read the storyArmory · 1847-51
830 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The Arsenal in Central Park is a significantly important building both architecturally and historically. Standing proudly and serenely in a slight hollow about one hundred feet west of Fifth Avenue at 64th...
Read the storyCivic · 1895
42 West 44th Street, New York, NY
Although severe in its Classic Eclectic design, the limestone facade of this building has great strength and dignity as befits a structure housing distinguished members of the legal profession. With two...
Read the storyResidential · 1886-88
10 St. Nicholas Place, New York, NY
This handsome residence was erected between 1666 and 1688 for James Anthony Bailey, partner in the famed Barnum & Bailey Circus. Samuel B. Reed, the architect for the house, combined structural and decorative...
Read the storyBank · 1902-03
31 Union Square West, New York, NY
A limestone-faced bank and office tower, the Bank of the Metropolis, a columnar tripartite skyscraper, is a representative example of the major New York architect Bruce Price's neo-Renaissance commercial...
Read the storyResidential · 1908-09
225 West 86th Street, New York, NY
Occupying an entire city block and enclosing a spacious landscaped courtyard, this massive twelve story brick and limestone building is a fine example of imaginative apartment house design. Planned for...
Read the storyResidential · 1928-29
211 Central Park West, New York, NY
The Beresford Apartments, completed in 1929 and designed by Emery Roth, then at the pinnacle of his career as a specialist in apartment house design, is one of the largest and grandest of the apartment...
Read the storyReligious · 1876
227 Bowery, New York, NY
No. 227 Bowery is significant for its 103-year history as the home of the Bowery Mission, a religious based organization that has fed, housed and cared for countless homeless men on the Lower East Side for...
Read the storyCommercial · 1930-31
1619 Broadway, New York, NY
Since its construction in 1930-31, the 11-story Brill Building has been synonymous with American music – from the last days of Tin Pan Alley to the emergence of rock and roll. Occupying the northwest corner of...
Read the storyCommercial · 1880-81
33 East 17th Street, New York, NY
The Century Building is a rare surviving Queen Anne style commercial building in New York City. Designed by William Schickel and built in 1880-81, it has been a major presence in Union Square for over a...
Read the storyResidential · 1902-04
340 West 72nd Street, New York, NY
Prominently sited on the south side of West 72 Street at the foot of Riverside Park on Manhattan's Upper West Side, the Chatsworth Apartments and Annex are two exceptionally handsome apartment buildings that...
Read the storyCommercial · 1928-30
405 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
William Van Alen designed the Chrysler Building for automobile manufacturer Walter P. Chrysler. Completed in 1930, it briefly held the world's height record before the Empire State Building overtook it in...
Read the storyMuseum · 1934-38
99 Margaret Corbin Drive, New York, NY
The Cloisters, designed by architect Charles Collens of the Boston firm of Allen, Collens & Willis, was completed in May 1936. It is a part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and houses a large portion of the...
Read the storyTheater · 1912-13
146 West 48th Street, New York, NY
The Cort Theater survives today as one of the historic theaters that symbolize American theater for both New York and the nation. Built in 1912-13, the Cort is among the oldest surviving theaters in New York....
Read the storyResidential · 1880-84
1 West 72nd Street, New York, NY
The Dakota was built between 1880 and 1884 to designs by Henry J. Hardenbergh, who later designed the Plaza Hotel. Commissioned by Edward S. Clark, it gave luxury apartment living a monumental presence beside...
Read the storyResidential · 1899-1901
309 West 72nd Street, New York, NY
The Diller Residence, designed by Gilbert A. Schellenger and constructed in 1899-1901, is an elegant Renaissance Revival town house located on a prominent site near the intersection of West 72nd Street and...
Read the storyResidential · 1900-02
171 West 71st Street, New York, NY
This French Beaux-Arts style apartment house, located diagonally across Broadway from The Ansonia and harmonizing with it, evokes memories of Paris. It was erected by Hamilton Weed, a builder, in 1900-1902 and...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1886-87
60 Pine Street, New York, NY
Constructed in 1886-87 for The Down Town Association, this elegant Romanesque Revival style building was designed by noted architect Charles C. Haight. The Down Town Association, begun in 1860 as a luncheon...
Read the storyCommercial · 1908
45 East 17th Street, New York, NY
The Everett Building is a sixteen-story commercial structure located on the northwest corner of East 17th Street and Park Avenue South. Named for Union Square's nineteenth-century Everett Hotel, and built in...
Read the storyReligious · 1894-95
145 West 46th Street, New York, NY
The Free Church of Saint Mary-the-Virgin complex, including the church, Clergy House, Mission House, Rectory and Lady Chapel, was designed by Pierre L. LeBrun of Napoleon LeBrun & Sons in 1894. The church,...
Read the storyMuseum · 1913-14
1 East 70th Street, New York, NY
Henry Clay Frick commissioned Carrère & Hastings to design his Fifth Avenue home, built in 1913–14. The limestone mansion included a long picture gallery and a garden facing the avenue. Frick intended the...
Read the storyCommercial · 1929-31
570 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
The General Electric Building, constructed in 1929-31 to create a highly visible image for the fledgling RCA Corporation, has a significant place in the history of architecture in New York City. Designed by...
Read the storyHotel · 1893-94
123 West 44th Street, New York, NY
The Gerard, an exceptionally fine brick, limestone, and terra-cotta apartment hotel, designed in 1893 by George Keister, marks a transition in both American architectural taste and in the developmental history...
Read the storyTheater · 1926-27
256 West 45th Street, New York, NY
The Golden Theater survives today as one of the historic theaters that symbolize American theater for both New York and the nation. Built as the Theatre Masque in 1926-27, the Golden was among the half-dozen...
Read the storyCivic · 1891-93
170 East 121st Street, New York, NY
Of the many historic buildings erected in Harlem around the turn of the Century and still extant, the Harlem Courthouse is one of the most significant and impressive. Begun in 1891 and completed in 1893, it is...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1894
27 West 44th Street, New York, NY
Sitting erect and dignified on West Forty-Fourth Street is this trim and elegant Georgian club house. The charm of this building lies in its red brick with limestone trim and in its intimate scale, the...
Read the storyTheater · 1917-18
130 West 43rd Street, New York, NY
The Henry Miller Theater survives today as one of the historic playhouses that symbolize American theater for both New York and the nation. Constructed in 1917-18, the Henry Miller was designed to the...
Read the storyHotel · 1901-03
2179 Broadway, New York, NY
The Hotel Belleclaire, one of a number of luxury apartment hotels constructed on the Upper West Side at the turn of the century, was the first major commission awarded to Emery Roth, at the time a struggling...
Read the storyResidential · 1896-98
3 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
The Kleeberg Residence, designed by noted architect C.P.H. Gilbert and constructed in 1896-98, is an elegant French Renaissance Revival style town house exhibiting a combination of Gothic and Renaissance...
Read the storyHotel · 1906
1470 Broadway, New York, NY
The Knickerbocker Hotel is one of the very few grand hotels in the Beaux-Arts style surviving in the Times Square area. Designed in 1901 by the firm of Marvin & Davis with the well-known Bruce Price as...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1904-05
128 West 44th Street, New York, NY
The Lambs, built in 1904-05, is a handsome neo-Georgian style clubhouse designed by the prominent New York City architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White. An extension, added in 1915 by architect George A....
Read the storyCommercial · 1889-90
3 Union Square West, New York, NY
A classic example of the layered arcade design solution, a solution in which New York pioneered, the Romanesque Revival Lincoln Building is representative of an important transitional phase in the history of...
Read the storyResidential · 1928-29
312 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
The Master Building, erected in 1928-29 to house an apartment hotel and museum, is an innovative and significant example of the work of Harvey Wiley Corbett, an architect influential in skyscraper design, and...
Read the storyEducational · 1890
20 West 44th Street, New York, NY
The Mechanics' and Tradesmen's Institute as we see it today is the result of two major construction campaigns resulting in a coherent and sensitive design solution which blends monumental Beaux-Arts classicism...
Read the storyReligious · 1897
308 West 122nd Street, New York, NY
The Mount Olive Fire Baptized Holiness Church, with its distinctive facade combining elements of the Gothic Revival and Romanesque Revival styles, was constructed in 1897 for the Second Reformed Presbyterian...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1874
15 Gramercy Park, New York, NY
The home of the National Arts Club represents the height of Victorian Gothic in residential architecture. It is replete with horizontal belt courses and pointed arched windows all done in contrasting colored...
Read the storyMuseum · 1903-08 & 1937-38
170 Central Park West, New York, NY
Austerely classical in feeling, and displaying great dignity in its formal composition, this building is a fitting home for a distinguished society. It is designed in the Roman Eclectic style and solidly...
Read the storyEducational · 1878
120 West 16th Street, New York, NY
The New York House and School of Industry is a two-story brick building designed in the Queen Anne style by Sidney V. Stratton. Erected in 1878 on West 16th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, this...
Read the storyLibrary · 1916-17
53 East 79th Street, New York, NY
The New York Society Library occupies a mansion of exceptional architectural character and distinction. This five-story limestone structure in the Italian Renaissance Style has great dignity. Trowbridge and...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1890
29 East 32nd Street, New York, NY
The Old Grolier Club (now the Gilbert Kiamie House) is a good example of how attractive and interesting the conventional "twenty-five foot front" can be made in New York. Here, in designing this three-story...
Read the storyResidential · 1903-05
854 5th Avenue, New York, NY
Although this small town house is sandwiched between two large apartment buildings, their overpowering size cannot diminish the palatial scale nor the elegant grandeur of its architecture. Designed by an...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1845
16 Gramercy Park, New York, NY
This building was remodeled from a Gothic Revival town house. The very distinguished front porch of the Players with its handsome iron railings and gorgeous wrought iron lamps is the work of Stanford White....
Read the storyHotel · 1905-07
5th Avenue & 59th Street, New York, NY
Henry J. Hardenbergh designed the Plaza Hotel, built from 1905 to 1907 at Fifth Avenue and Central Park South. Its white-brick and marble exterior rises to steep roofs and dormer windows inspired by French...
Read the storyResidential · 1899-1901
1 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
The Prentiss Residence, designed by noted architect C.P.H. Gilbert and constructed in 1899-1901, is an elegant Beaux-Arts style town house located on a prominent site at the intersection of West 72nd Street...
Read the storyEducational · 1913-17
55 East 84th Street, New York, NY
The Regis High School is five stories high, built of stone, and functionally designed to meet the needs of urban education. It presents an appearance of classic monumentality because of the rows of Ionic...
Read the storyReligious · 1928-30
498 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
Located in Morningside Heights on a high bluff overlooking the Hudson River, The Riverside Church is one of the best-known religious structures in New York City. An ecumenical church, with its roots in the...
Read the storyResidential · 1916-17
200 West 57th Street, New York, NY
The Rodin Studios building, built in 1916-17, was designed by Cass Gilbert specifically for artists. Named for the most innovative living artist of the time, it represents a refinement on the earlier essays in...
Read the storyHotel · 1901-04
703 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The St. Regis Hotel is one of the most elegant and sophisticated Beaux-Arts style buildings in New York. Among the oldest of the early "skyscraper" hotels, it rises nineteen stories above the intersection of...
Read the storyResidential · 1901-02
311 West 72nd Street, New York, NY
The Sutphen Residence, designed by noted architect C.P.H. Gilbert and constructed in 1901-02, is an elegant Beaux-Arts style town house located on a prominent site at the intersec.•tion of West 72nd Street and...
Read the storyReligious · 1917-18
75 East 93rd Street, New York, NY
Formerly a part of one of the most extensive early Twentieth Century town houses in New York and now The Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, this handsome L-shaped unit has great...
Read the storyCommercial · 1892-93
33 Union Square West, New York, NY
An important example of the Moorish style (with Venetian touches), with a profusion of terra-cotta embellishment that enlivens and adds variety to the facade, the Union Building (originally known as the Decker...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1897-99
1 West 54th Street, New York, NY
The University Club on its conspicuous corner site is one of the handsomest buildings on Fifth Avenue. Although this granite building of stately end noble proportions closely resembles a sixteenth century...
Read the storyCommercial · 1902-04
17 Battery Place, New York, NY
The twenty-story Whitehall Building, named for Peter Stuyvesant's seventeenth-century house that had been located nearby, was constructed in 1902-04 and designed by the preeminent turn-of-¬the-century...
Read the storyHotel · 1888-90
1 West 30th Street, New York, NY
The Wilbraham, built in 1888-90 as a bachelor apartment hotel, was commissioned by prominent Scottish-American jeweler William Moir as a real estate investment. It was designed by the versatile New York...
Read the storyResidential · 1880-81
406 West 57th Street, New York, NY
The Windermere, constructed in 1880-81, is significant as the oldest-known large apartment complex remaining in an area that was one of Manhattan's first apartment-house districts. With its exuberant display...
Read the storyRecreational · 1935-36
1st Ave & E 111th St, New York, NY
The Thomas Jefferson Play Center is one of a group of eleven immense outdoor swimming pools opened in the summer of 1936 in a series of grand ceremonies presided over by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and Park...
Read the storyLibrary · 1904
331 East 10th Street, New York, NY
Opened on December 1, 1904, the Tompkins Square Branch of The New York Public Library is one of the earliest Carnegie branch libraries in New York City. It is one of twenty in Manhattan and one of sixty-seven...
Read the storyCivic · 1919-21
123 W 43rd St, New York, NY
Characterized by one contemporary observer as "an idea with a roof over it" Town Hall was built in 1919-1921 as a meeting hall for the city of New York. The architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White was asked...
Read the storyCommercial · 1905-07
111 Broadway, New York, NY
The Trinity Building, designed by Francis Hatch Kimball and built in 1905, with an addition of 1907, is among the first Gothic-inspired skyscrapers in New York. Kimball's sensitive adaptation of this...
Read the storyReligious · 1846
Broadway & Wall Street, New York, NY
The present Trinity Church, completed in 1846, is the third edifice of this Episcopal parish, founded in 1697, to stand on this prominent site, closing the vista at the end of Wall Street. The present Church...
Read the storyReligious · 1893-94
147 West 91st Street, New York, NY
Built according to the designs of Charles Coolidge Haight in 1893-94 and the oldest continuously operated school in Manhattan, Trinity School is a prime example of the English Collegiate Gothic style of...
Read the storyCivic · 1861-1881
52 Chambers Street, New York, NY
The Tweed Courthouse, although associated by name and history with one of New York's most notoriously corrupt city governments, is architecturally one of the city's grandest and most important civic monuments....
Read the storyCommercial · 1907
115 Broadway, New York, NY
The U.S. Realty Building, designed by Francis Hatch Kimball and built in 1907, is among the first Gothic-inspired skyscrapers in New York. Kimball's sensitive adaptation of this historical style established a...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1929-31
38 East 37th Street, New York, NY
Built in 1929-31, the Union League is a fine example of a neo-Classical style clubhouse, combining elements that recall the architecture of 18th century England and the American colonies. This style was...
Read the storyBank · 1905-07
20 Union Square East, New York, NY
The Union Square Savings Bank, originally the Institution for the Savings of Merchants' Clerks, was built in 1905-07 to the designs of Henry Bacon in a bold and monumental Academic Classic style popularized by...
Read the storyCivic · 1933-36
Foley Square, New York, NY
This imposing neo-classical skyscraper, begun in 1933, was the last building designed by the noted American architect Cass Gilbert, who died in 1934 while the courthouse was under construction. It was...
Read the storyCivic · 1901-07
1 Bowling Green, New York, NY
The seven-story stone Custom House was designed in the Eclectic French Renaissance Style, Art and industry joined to produce one of the splendid buildings of its period. This is a truly monumental structure,...
Read the storyCivic · 1892-99
641 Washington Street, New York, NY
This handsome Romanesque Revival warehouse building, now known as the Building, was built as the "Appraisers' Warehouse" by the U. S. Government. It fills an entire city block and is ten stories high. Built...
Read the storyCivic · 1910-13
8th Avenue & 31st Street, New York, NY
An inscription occupying the entire height and length of the frieze of the entablature crowning one of the most monumental Classic colonnades in New York quotes Herodotus, "Neither Snow nor rain nor heat nor...
Read the storyBridge · 1893-95
University Heights Bridge, New York, NY
The University Heights Bridge, a steel truss bridge consisting of a central swing (double) span and three deck truss approach spans, is, in large part, one of the oldest major bridges in New York City, and one...
Read the storyResidential · 1964-67
505 Laguardia Place, New York, NY
University Village is one of the finest examples of a mid-20th century residential complex located in New York City. Designed by architect James Ingo Freed of I. M. Pei & Associates for New York University,...
Read the storyCommercial · 1903-04
128 East 13th Street, New York, NY
The former Van Tassell & Kearney auction mart is a three-story Beaux-Arts style building on the south side of East 13th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues.
Read the storyReligious · 1911-14
540 West 155th Street, New York, NY
The Vicarage is an integral part of the group of buildings adjoining the Chapel of the Intercession. The building is a spacious house connected to the Chapel by a handsome cloister surrounding a small inner...
Read the storyEducational · 1901-02
215 West 114th Street, New York, NY
Built in 1901-02, the Wadleigh High School for Girls was designed by the prominent school architect C.B.J. Snyder, and is one of his most sophisticated and innovative secondary school designs. The first public...
Read the storyHotel · 1929-31
301 Park Avenue, New York, NY
Schultze & Weaver designed the Park Avenue Waldorf-Astoria, which opened in 1931. Its paired towers rise above lower blocks facing Park and Lexington avenues. Pale limestone and matching brick give the...
Read the storyResidential · 1883-84
2040 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd, New York, NY
The Washington Apartments, built in 1883-84 for the speculative developer Edward H.M. Just, was the earliest apartment building constructed in central Harlem. This eight-story brick building, with stone, iron,...
Read the storyBridge · 1886-89
Washington Bridge, New York, NY
The Washington Bridge, the next major extant bridge constructed in New York City after the Brooklyn Bridge, is a monument in the history of nineteenth-century American engineering. A steel and cast- and...
Read the storyCivic · 1855
E 122nd Street & Madison Avenue, New York, NY
In making a selection of outstanding architectural monuments in New York City, the Commission could not exclude from its list of distinctive, individual monuments the iron Watch Tower, located in Mount Morris...
Read the storyCivic · 1872
W 173d Street & Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
Since 1872, a slender and graceful water tower overlooking old High Bridge and the Harlem River has been one of Manhattan's most picturesque architectural monument; This impressive Tower resembling a medieval...
Read the storyCommercial · 1886-87
125 East 11th Street, New York, NY
One of New York City’s most historically and culturally significant large nineteenth-century assembly halls, Webster Hall was constructed for Charles Goldstein in 1886-87, with an eastern Annex in 1892, to the...
Read the storyReligious · 1892-93
368 West End Avenue, New York, NY
The West End Collegiate Church and School are a well integrated group of buildings executed in a uniform style of architecture providing an accent of quaint charm among the surrounding high rise apartments of...
Read the storyReligious · 1883-85
165 West 86th Street, New York, NY
The West Park Presbyterian Church is considered to be one of the best examples of a Romanesque Revival style religious structure in New York City. The extraordinarily deep color of its red sandstone cladding...
Read the storyCommercial · 1905-07
90 West Street, New York, NY
The West Street Building, one of three major Downtown office buildings designed by Cass Gilbert, was built in 1905-07 for the West Street Improvement Corporation, a partnership headed by Howard Carroll....
Read the storyCommercial · 1928-30
60 Hudson Street, New York, NY
The Western Union Building (1928-30), designed by Ralph Walker, one of New York's foremost architects of the period, is a recognized achievement in modernistic skyscraper design. The building is characteristic...
Read the storyCommercial · 1927-28
444 East 10th Street, New York, NY
The Wheatsworth Bakery Building was constructed in 1927-28 to the designs of J. Edwin Hopkins, a specialist in the design of industrial bakeries. This Art Deco/Viennese Secessionist style factory building...
Read the storyResidential · 1900-01
294 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
Built in 1900-01, the 294 Riverside Drive House is a rare survivor which exemplifies the character of Riverside Drive from the time when it was developed with many luxurious single-family residences. Located...
Read the storyResidential · 1926-27
116 E 55th Street, New York, NY
The William and Helen Ziegler, Jr. House was built in 1926-27, at the end of the era of large single-family town houses for the wealthy in Manhattan. It is one of the most distinguished New York City...
Read the storyCommercial · 1865
50 White Street, New York, NY
The Woods Merchantile Buildings at Nos. 46-50 White Street are handsome examples of mid-19th century commercial architecture. Built of marble with a cast-iron ground floor, these two buildings were designed as...
Read the storyCommercial · 1911-13
233 Broadway, New York, NY
Cass Gilbert completed the Woolworth Building in 1913 for retailer F. W. Woolworth. Its Gothic ornament gave a modern commercial tower the appearance of a much older architectural tradition, earning it the...
Read the storyBank · 1905
203 East 85th Street, New York, NY
The Yorkville Bank building, an Italian Renaissance Revival structure designed by architect Robert Maynicke and constructed in 1905, served for more than 85 years as a banking center for the Yorkville...
Read the storyLibrary · 1902
222 East 79th Street, New York, NY
The Yorkville Public Library is one of New York's most elegant adaptations of the Palladian style to a modern public building and one of the few examples of this phase of Italian Renaissance architecture in...
Read the storyCommercial · 1931-32
180 West 135th Street, New York, NY
The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) Building, 135th Street Branch, was constructed in 1931-32 according to plans prepared by the Architectural Bureau of the National Council of the YMCA and to the...
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