117 and 119 West 81st Street, built in 1885, were designed by Henry L. Harris in Northern Renaissance Revival style. The brownstone row houses are part of the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District. Name: 117-119 West 81 Street Location: 117-119 West 81 Street Year Completed: 1885 Architect: Henry L. Harris Style: Northern Renaissance […]
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113 West 78th Street, erected in 1884, was designed by Christian Blinn in neo-Grec style. The brownstone row house is part of the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District. Name: 113 West 78th Street Location: 113 West 78th Street Year Completed: 1884 Architect: Christian Blinn Style: neo-Grec NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission: Designation Report Google
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108 West 76th Street, completed in 1892, was designed by John C. Burne in Renaissance Revival style. The brownstone row house is part of the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District. Name: 108 West 76th Street Location: 108 West 76th Street Year Completed: 1892 Architect: John C. Burne Style: Renaissance Revival NYC Landmarks Preservation
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Ginter House was built in 1892 as the residence of Lewis Ginter, a transplanted northern entrepreneur who made Richmond his home after the Civil War. Harvey L. Page and William Winthrop Kent designed the mansion with elements of Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne styles. Ginter’s niece, Grace Arents, inherited the property in 1897. From 1924
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Masonic Temple is considered Virginia’s largest and finest example of Richardsonian Romanesque construction, according to landmark documents. Originally, the building housed a department store on the ground floor, ballrooms on the second and third floors, and Masonic Lodge meeting rooms on the fourth and fifth floors. Now known as the events venue Renaissance, the landmark
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One of the city’s few remaining “bachelor flats” buildings, built at a time when unmarried men were considered less-desirable as tenants. Like other apartment hotels, the individual units had no kitchens. Residents were expected to take their meals in the eighth floor dining room. The building’s stonework is unusual in that each spandrel is unique.
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Central Synagogue, 652 Lexington Avenue, is a landmark house of worship in Midtown Manhattan. It was built in 1872, designed by Henry Fernbach in Moorish Revival style. Name: Central Synagogue Location: 652 Lexington Avenue Year Completed: 1872 Architect: Henry Fernbach Style: Moorish Revival NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission: Designation Report Wikipedia: Central Synagogue (Manhattan) Google Map
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Park Slope Historic District is a huge swath of mostly residential buildings, roughly two blocks deep by 24 blocks long, across the entire northwest border of Prospect Park. The original district, designated in July 1973, was extended in April 2012 and again in April 2016. Combined, these districts cover more than 2,500 buildings. A related
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The City of Brooklyn built this fire station in Bensonhurst just two years before the borough merged with New York City. The station, at 2425 86th Street, originally housed Engine Company 53; later 153, before becoming 253. The Dutch Renaissance style reflects Bensonhurst’s Dutch origins. Name: Engine Company 253 Location: 2425-2427 86th Street Year Completed:
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