Building type
Utility buildings and private stables that preserve the older service geography behind Manhattan's elite streets.
Private stables and carriage houses served the larger residences nearby. Look for broad carriage entrances and compare their compact street fronts with the houses they supported.
21 building histories
Carriage 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 design of...
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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. Though...
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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 German...
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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 German...
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 constructed...
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 constructed...
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 constructed...
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 in a...
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, this...
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 · 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 houses...
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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 style by...
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. Perkins, the...
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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 houses...
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, the carriage...
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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 horses...
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...
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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 both...
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 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 small...
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 a stable...
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