Architectural style
Heavy carved detail, ordered facades, and an especially New York version of Renaissance revival monumentality.
Renaissance-derived details appear across commercial and institutional Manhattan. Compare the former Rogers and Peet Building with Casa Italiana and the Ottendorfer Library to see differences in scale and ornament.
128 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 · 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 Henry Janeway...
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 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 stories tall,...
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 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 P....
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 Max Nathan...
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 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 changing...
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 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 New York...
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 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 joined...
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 rows of...
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 rows of...
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 African-Americans...
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 imposing...
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 York City's...
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 · 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 followed a...
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 · 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 corner of...
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 institutional and...
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 · 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 office...
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 replaced an...
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 and built...
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 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 disasters...
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 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 owners have...
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 handsomest...
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 southeast corner...
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 of their...
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 Hardenbergh...
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 edifices. It...
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 · 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 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 supplied with...
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 the...
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 decade of...
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 City's attempt...
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 · 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 building, while...
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 extant in...
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, Thomas W....
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 house design....
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 1892-94. 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 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 schools due...
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. Hoffman, the...
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 century....
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 nation's...
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 immigrant...
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 · 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 survive....
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 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 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 Manhattan....
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 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 brother...
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 that once...
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 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 Co., is...
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 example of a...
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 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 architectural practice...
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, drafting tools,...
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 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 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 the...
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 four-story...
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, residential...
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 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, the...
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 composition...
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 bordered by...
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 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 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 architect...
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 materials as...
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 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 of N.G....
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 · 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 the firm of...
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 from showing...
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 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. Jarmulowsky Bank...
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 Avenue at...
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 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 1852. As...
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 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 Morningside Heights....
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 · 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 of 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 on the...
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 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 Kelly, an...
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. Below the...
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 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 architecture....
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 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 buildings along...
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 Central...
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 Riverside...
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 details...
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 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 Renaissance...
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 that was...
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 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 architect Henry J....
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, and 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 West End...
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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