The three-story granite and red brick Second Empire style building which occupies a central location on the grounds of the former Coast Guard Station at the foot of Bay Street, St. George, Staten Island, has had a long and distinguished history of government service; first as the main office of the Lighthouse Service Depot for […]
The Physician-in-Chief’s residence of Seaman’s Retreat, the fourth building constructed for the newly founded hospital, dates from 1842. A relatively severe structure, built by the Staten Island Granite Company, the residence was designed to harmonize with the main hospital building completed in 1837. For most of its history, Seaman’s Retreat was the only hospital at […]
Curtis High School was Staten Island’s first public secondary school. The campus provides the setting for C.B.J. Snyder’s Collegiate Gothic-style buildings. The original four-story building of brick and limestone is rectangular in plan, with a central tower and gabled end pavilions. A south wing with workshops and classrooms, completed in 1922, demonstrates an evolving Gothing […]
Borough Hall, Staten Island’s grandest civic monument, was designed in 1903, five years after the consolidation of Greater New York. The magnificent structure was the work of Carerre & Hastings, one of the leading architectural firms in New York at the turn of the century. The building is a testament to the belief of the […]
Designated: January 30, 2001 Constructed between 1880 and 1882 for August and Augusta Schoverling, this house is one of the most imposing and architecturally distinguished of the masonry Second Empire style houses in northeastern Staten Island. Faced in tawny-red iron-spot brick set off by stone and wood trim, the house’s principal feature is a projecting […]
Designated: June 27, 2000 The 120th Police Precinct Station House (former 66th Police Precinct Station House and Headquarters) is an impressive neo-Renaissance style building set on Richmond Terrace in Staten Island’s civic center. Designed by James Whitford, Sr., it was built in 1920-23 as the headquarters for the Police Department in Richmond County and as […]
The Staten Island Family Courthouse, an integral part of Staten Island’s civic center in St. George, is an impressive neo-Classical building set on Richmond Terrace. In 1898, Richmond County was consolidated into the City of New York, and the old county center was moved to St. George. Between 1898 and 1919, the firm of Carrere […]
Designated: September 15, 2009 Horton’s Row, constructed between 1880 and 1882 by Harry L. Horton, consisted of twelve identical attached masonry row houses that were built as affordable rental houses for middle-class families. No. 411 Westervelt Avenue is one of the only four intact houses that survive. The vernacular style red brick houses have neo-Grec […]
Designated: September 15, 2009 Horton’s Row, constructed between 1880 and 1882 by Harry L. Horton, consisted of twelve identical attached masonry row houses that were built as affordable rental houses for middle-class families. No. 413 Westervelt Avenue is one of the only four intact houses that survive. The vernacular style red brick houses have neo-Grec […]
Designated: September 15, 2009 Horton’s Row, constructed between 1880 and 1882 by Harry L. Horton, consisted of twelve identical attached masonry row houses that were built as affordable rental houses for middle-class families. No. 413 Westervelt Avenue is one of the only four intact houses that survive. The vernacular style red brick houses have neo-Grec […]
