Engine Company Number 23, built in 1905-06, was designed in a straightforward Beaux-Arts style that served as a model for subsequent firehouse design. The symmetry of the three story facade, its materials, Indiana limestone and red brick, laid in Flemish bond with dark headers, and its consistently ample fenestration successfully combine to give it its […]
Its construction came at the end of a decade of extensive redevelopment which transformed service-oriented West 43rd Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues into a locus of prestigious hotels and club buildings. Its largely intact, stately facade is the result of professional developments in the New York Fire Department during the nineteenth century. The graceful […]
This six-story Romanesque Revival structure was designed by N. LeBrun & Son for the headquarters of the New York Fire Department and to provide fire protection in a neighborhood that was experiencing considerable growth and change. Unlike many modest mid-block firehouses, the East 67th Street building served multiple functions, providing space for two fire companies, […]
Like most late nineteenth-century New York City firehouses, Fire Engine Company No. 53 has a large central opening at the ground level, flanked by smaller doorways. The design incorporates elements of the Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival styles. The cast-iron trabeated base is enlivened by foliate capitals incorporating sunflowers and torches. Molded brick panels above […]
Hook & Ladder No. 14 is characteristic of N. LeBrun & Sons’ numerous mid-block firehouses, reflecting the firm’s attention to materials, stylistic detail, plan, and setting. Built on the site of an earlier volunteer fire company, and then a professional suburban company, this firehouse also represents nearly 150 years of the New York Fire Department’s […]
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, built in 1899-1903 at the northwest of Central Park West and 96th Street was designed in the finest tradition of Beaux-Arts classicism. Although the architects of his church designed a few churches, the Christian Science building is very much in keeping with its designs for other public buildings.
Among its important qualities, the First Battery Armory is one of the few remaining examples of an American building type largely developed in New York City. It was the seventh of ten armories built by the Armory Board, as part of a larger campaign to control rioting workers in industrial cities. It was the home […]
Designated November 12, 1968 With its square twin towers and triple entrance porch, Emmanuel Baptist Church is reminiscent of a small French Gothic cathedral. The somber and stolid character of this late nineteenth Century stone edifice is relieved by a varied and fanciful use of carved ornament and structural forms, creating an outstanding example of […]
Designated March 15, 1966 Erected in 1786, this handsomely proportioned rectangular structure approximately thirty-six feet wide by one hundred feet long shows the hand of a master builder. This interesting wood-framed, clapboard Federal Style building of two and one-half stories has a stone basement and stands in the center of an ivy towered quadrangle of […]
Designated March 23, 1976 The Elias Hubbard Ryder House is located in Gravesend, one of the six original townships of Kings County. The house is a typical early-nineteenth-century Dutch Colonial farmhouse, distinguished by a projecting roof eave that may initially have acted as an overhang to protect the masonry walls from rain and snow. The […]
