235 West 76th Street, aka The Colorado, aka Lyonhurst, is a Romanesque Revival design notable for its colorful terra cotta. It is part of the West End-Collegiate Historic District Extension. Name: Colorado, Lyonhurst Location: 235 West 76th Street Year Completed: 1925 Architect: Robert T. Lyons Style: Romanesque Revival NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission: Designation Report Google […]
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201 West 80th Street, aka 420 Amsterdam Avenue, is a Romanesque Revival flats building designed by Gilbert A. Schellenger and completed in 1891. It is part of the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District. Name: 201 West 80th Street, aka 420 Amsterdam Avenue Location: 201 West 80th Street Year Completed: 1891 Architect: Gilbert A.
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200 West 80th Street, aka 416 Amsterdam Avenue, is a Renaissance Revival style apartment house designed by Charles See and constructed in 1895. It is part of the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District. Name: 200 West 80th Street, 410 Amsterdam Avenue, 416 Amsterdam Avenue Location: 200 West 80th Street Year Completed: 1895 Architect:
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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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59 West 76th Street, aka Sylvia Apartments, erected in 1890, was designed by Edward L. Angell in Renaissance Revival style. The building is part of the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District. Name: Sylvia Location: 59 West 76th Street Year Completed: 1890 Architect: Edward L. Angell Style: Renaissance Revival NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission: Designation
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Chloe, 55 West 76th Street, built in 1890, was designed by Edward L. Angell in Renaissance Revival style. The building is part of the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District. Name: Chloe Location: 55 West 76th Street Year Completed: 1890 Architect: Edward L. Angell Style: Renaissance Revival NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission: Designation Report Google
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243 West End Avenue’s owners have revived a former name for the building: Coliseum Plaza. The apartment house was built in 1925 as Hotel Cardinal, an apartment hotel designed by Emery Roth, one of New York’s foremost residential architects. The red brick facade is embellished with elaborate polychrome terra cotta window treatments on the bottom
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Cathedral of the Sacred Heart is said to be the world’s only cathedral financed by a single donation – that of industrialist Thomas Fortune Ryan and wife Ida Barry Ryan. Ryan family members are interred alongside Richmond bishops in the crypt below the cathedral’s altar. Together with the Bishop’s Residence, Priest’s House and supporting structures,
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Edison Apartments was built in 1913 as Virginia Railway and Power Company Office Building. It’s also been known as Virginia Electric & Power Building, VEPCO Building, and Railway and Power Building. The high-rise was converted to residential use in 2013/2014 as the 700 Centre Building and combined with the adjacent modern low-rise structure. Soon after,
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American Heritage Apartments is proof positive that you should always look up. At street level, my only interest was visiting the 7/11. From the State Capitol grounds, I found this view of the building, over the roof of the U.S. Court of Appeals on Bank Street. Marvelous cornice, terra cotta, balconies – not to mention
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