Designated: May 17, 1966 *When Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White, designed this handsome Federal Eclectic building in 1905, his client was the Colony Club, the first women’s organization in New York City to build itself a club house for social activities and an artistic center. The plan, accordingly, required spaces for assembly rooms, […]
Interior Designated: August 6, 1985 The interior of the Ambassador Theater survives today as one of the historic theater interiors that symbolize American theater for both New York and the nation. Built shortly after the end of World War I, the Ambassador was among the numerous theaters constructed by the Shubert Organization, to the designs […]
Designated: February 19, 1974 *998 Fifth Avenue is visually divided into three superimposed four-story sections which are separated by bandcourses with balustrades, creating a strong horizontal emphasis which is repeated in the striking roof cornice. The first section consists of an unusually high base of boldly rusticated limestone, a feature which is typical of the […]
Designated: October 29, 1968 Forming a part of Schermerhorn Row, this building with its handsome Flemish bond brickwork, was increased to six stories in height with mansard roof and dormers to make it a hotel. This change took place in the late eighteen sixties. As can be seen today, it was joined to 2 Fulton […]
Designated: October 29, 1968 *Forming a part of Schermerhorn Row, this Federal style building was remodeled in the eighteen-sixties when it was increased to five stories in height. Today it has lost the heavy bracketed cornice which was added when the building was remodeled, but it does retain its fire escapes. These fire escapes constructed […]
Designated: June 28, 2022 *The 227th Street Historic Districts comprise remarkably cohesive and intact groups of Storybook-style row houses incorporating Tudor-style elements. The Storybook style is primarily associated with California, where it flourished as a small-house style in the 1920s and was influenced more by the fantasy architecture of fairytale illustrations and movie backdrops. Storybook […]
Designated: June 28, 2022 *The 222nd Street Historic Districts is comprised of remarkably cohesive and intact groups of Storybook-style row houses incorporating Tudor-style elements. The Storybook style is primarily associated with California, where it flourished as a small-house style in the 1920s and was influenced more by the fantasy architecture of fairytale illustrations and movie […]
Designated: June 15, 1993 The apartment building at 555 Edgecombe Avenue, built as the Roger Morris Apartments but known simply as “555,” has achieved significance as the home of many of New York’s successful African Americans. Located·on an elevated site immediately south of the eighteenth century house of Roger Morris (known as the Morris-Jumel Mansion), […]
Designated: June 15, 1993 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 “since the Harlem Renaissance. The building, known simply as “409,” was first open to African-Americans in the late 1920s and soon […]
Designated: April 16, 1991 *The 332 West 83rd Street House, designed by well-known architect and developer Clarence F. True, was built on speculation in 1898-99 as one house of a picturesque group of six houses on the southeast corner of Riverside Drive and West 83rd Street. Today the 332 West 83rd Street House is architecturally […]
