57 West 75th Street, aka La Rochelle, was built in 1898 to plans drawn by Lamb & Rich. The Renaissance Revival landmark is part of the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District. Name: La Rochelle Location: 57 West 75th Street Year Completed: 1898 Architect: Lamb & Rich Style: Renaissance Revival NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission: […]
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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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Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company building of 1920, designed by NY architect Benjamin Morris. Now used by Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP). (Not to be confused with Phoenix Mutual’s modern headquarters, known as the “Boat Building” for its unusual shape.) Name: Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company Building, Department of Energy and Environmental
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Church of the Good Shepherd and Parish House. The parish house is now used as the Metropolitan Church. Both structures were commissioned by Samuel Colt’s wife as a memorial to her husband. Name: Church of the Good Shepherd and Parish House, Metropolitan Church Location: 155 Wyllys Street Year Completed: 1896 Architect: Edward Tuckerman Potter Style:
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Linden Building, built in 1891, is a Main Street landmark with its copper-topped cupola. Now condominiums. Name: Linden Building Location: 1 Linden Place, 427 Main Street Year Completed: 1891 Architect: Frederick Savage Newman Style: Richardsonian Romanesque National Register of Historic Places: Buckingham Square District (pdf) Google Map All images copyright © Kenneth Grant / photos
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Hartford State Armory, aka Connecticut State Armory, aka Governor William A. O’Neill State Armory, is headquarters of the state militia. It was built with a great deal of cast concrete which deteriorated and was replaced with carved limestone in the 1990s. (See National Register of Historic Places registration form for more detail). Name: Connecticut State
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The Hartford Municipal Building is the city’s third City Hall, after outgrowing two previous homes. The land was donated by financier J. Pierpont Morgan. Name: Hartford Municipal Building, City Hall Location: 550 Main Street Year Completed: 1915 Architect: Davis & Brooks, Palmer & Hornbostel Style: Beaux Arts Wikipedia: Municipal Building Google Map All images copyright
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Goodwin Hotel, originally Goodwin Apartments, was built at the corner of Asylum and Haynes Streets in 1881. It was expanded in 1891 and again in 1900; the Goodwin Square Tower was added in 1989, as the apartments were converted to a hotel. Name: Goodwin Apartments, Goodwin Hotel, Goodwin Square Tower Location: 1 Haynes Street Year
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One of the architects – James Renwick, Jr. – also designed New York City’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Washington, D.C.’s Smithsonian Institution Building. Name: First Presbyterian Church Location: 136 Capitol Avenue Year Completed: 1870 Architect: Renwick & Sands Style: High Victorian Romanesque Historic Buildings of Connecticut: First Presbyterian Church, Hartford Google Map All images copyright
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