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Date Published:: 2024-06-25
Description:: Reception room and banking hall for the Irving Trust and Bank Company, designed in 1931 by architect Ralph Walker and muralist Hildreth Meiere.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Landmarks, Architecture, and Manhattan
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2024-06-25
Description:: The stunning reception room and banking hall for the Irving Trust and Bank Company, this unusual and elaborately tiled space, completed in 1931, represents the work of two masters: architect Ralph Walker and muralist Hildreth Meière.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Buildings, Manhattan, and Landmarks
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2024-05-14
Description:: A French Renaissance Revival style skyscraper designed by Warren & Wetmore in 1920-22. It was one of the first skyscrapers in this section of Fifth Avenue and one of the earliest buildings to conform to the groundbreaking 1916 Building Zone Resolution.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Manhattan, Landmarks, and Architecture
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2023-06-27
Description:: 935 St. Nicholas Avenue, an architecturally distinct early 20th-century Neo-Gothic Revival style apartment building in the Washington Heights neighborhood, was the well-established home to jazz trailblazers, Duke Ellington, and Noble Sissle, each for over 20 years.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Manhattan, Landmarks, and Buildings
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2023-06-27
Description:: The Renaissance Revival-style Hotel Cecil was home to Minton’s Playhouse, the legendary nightclub where the pivotal style “bebop” emerged and flourished in the 1940s, redefining jazz and American music.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Manhattan, Landmarks, and Buildings
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2023-05-23
Description:: A three-story school building built 1849-50 by the Public-School Society of New York City and used by African American students and teachers from 1860 to 1894.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Landmarks, Buildings, and Manhattan
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2022-12-06
Description:: The site of the April 21, 1966 “Sip-In” protesting and publicizing anti-gay discrimination in bars and other public places, the Julius’ Bar Building is New York City’s most significant site of pre-Stonewall LGBTQ+-rights activism.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Manhattan, Landmarks, and Buildings
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2021-11-09
Description:: 200 Madison Avenue First Floor Lobby Interior was designed by Warren & Wetmore and built in 1925-1926, the glittering neoclassical lobby of 200 Madison Avenue contains a richly embellished through-block arcade and elevator hall.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Landmarks, Architecture, and Manhattan
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2021-06-15
Description:: The report tells the history of the New York Public Library, Harlem Branch (McKim, Mead & White, 1907-09), a Carnegie Library including its role in the development of Black theater in the 1930s as the home of the Rose McClendon Players and Theatre Workshop.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Landmarks, Manhattan, and Architecture
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2021-06-15
Description:: The Dorrance Brooks Square Historic District is associated with notable African American figures of the Harlem Renaissance. It features a striking collection of residential and religious structures designed by prominent New York City architects and that form cohesive streetscapes.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Landmarks, Manhattan, and Architecture
Report Type:: Other

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