Architectural style
Palazzo influences, cultural institutions, and carefully composed masonry facades.
Palazzo-inspired fronts appear on Manhattan's libraries, schools, houses, and apartment buildings. Compare their masonry, proportions, and treatment of the street entrance.
47 building histories
Library · 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 the...
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 house...
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 City...
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 its site on...
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 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 Street.
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 Italian...
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 architect...
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 time was...
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 building...
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 Fifth...
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 by...
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 built in...
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 Philharmonic...
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 on the,...
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 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 Atterbury, is noted...
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 basement and...
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 waterfront...
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 German-American...
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 many...
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 sensitivity...
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 skillfully...
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 skillfully...
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 skillfully...
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 south of...
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 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 in 1826 by...
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, immigrated to the...
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 Stanford White,...
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 manly sports...
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 River, it...
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, after the...
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, rises through...
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. This...
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 order to...
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 57th...
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 Manhattan...
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 pedimented...
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 ornamental...
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. It is a...
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 Estate, it...
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 gracious living,...
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 Livingston,...
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 Italian...
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 neighborhood of...
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