The architects devised a decorative scheme which had certain features in common for each station but gave each station a distinctive identity. The identity of each station was created through the use of color, symbolic plaques, and name tablets. Fine materials such as faience, terra-cotta, glass and mosaic tile, marble and Roman brick highlight the […]
This mansion was buiIt in 1852-53 for lrad Hawley, the president of the Pennsylvania Coal Company, which had its big yards near the Hudson River in the West ViIlage. The rooms of the first floor are among the few lavish examples of the Italianate style left in New York, with their original carved marble chimney […]
Play Center Interior is one of a group of eleven new outdoor swimming pool complexes which were opened in the summer of 1936 by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, and it was the only one of the eleven pools located in a primarily minority neighborhood. The design of this interior is similar to that of a cathedral, […]
The ground floor interior with accompanying mezzanine floor interior of the International Building is one of the grandest and most dramatic interior spaces in the Rockefeller Center complex and a major component of the Center’s second largest building. This interior follows the east-west axis of the International Building at the northern end of the Center. […]
The Ed Sullivan Theater Interior was designed in Gothic style, and it includes leaded glass light fixtures and polychromatic ceramic tile, making it unique among the Broadway theaters. Despite a number of alterations the interior retains most of its original character and configuration.
The General Grant National Memorial Interior is dominated by a center crypt with twin sarcophagi holding the bodies of General Grant and his wife. It reflects the classic monumentality of the exterior of the building, and it is one of the most impressive monuments in New York City. The Memorial is a testimony to the […]
The interiors of the Four Seasons Restaurant are among the finest International style interiors in the United States. Innovative technologies and architectonic elements were combined to achieve the spatial effects. The rooms of this interior landmark are outfitted with finely crafted rich materials such as bronze, white Carrara and travertine marbles, rawhide panels, French walnut […]
The O’Neill Theater Interior is an example of the elegant Adamesque style. Its significant architectural features include its single-balcony configuration and such Adamesque ornament as panels with classical scenes, cartouches with classically-robed figures, and theatrical masks.
The main banking room of the old Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank is a grand and elegant interior space fitted with fine materials and beautiful ornament. The Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank was established in 1850 and was an important aid to Irish immigrants settling in New York during the second half of the 19th century. This […]
The Film Center Building interior design is an example of the Art Deco style. The architect, Ely Jacques Kahn, was one of the city’s most prominent architects working in modernistic styles. The interior incorporates a technique of “woven” plaster wall and ceiling surfaces, and a wide-ranging polychromatic program, and it survives largely intact. The building […]
