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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
IN THE MATTER OF a communication dated November 18, 2021, from the Executive Director
of the Landmarks Preservation Commission regarding the landmark designation of 200 Madison
Avenue First Floor Lobby Interior, 200 Madison Avenue (Block 865, Lot 14) by the Landmarks
Preservation Commission on Nov
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.
IN THE MATTER OF a communication dated July 1, 2021, from the Executive Director of the
Landmarks Preservation Commission regarding the landmark designation of the Kimlau War
Memorial (Block 117, Lot 100), by the Landmarks Preservation Commission on June 22, 2021,
(Designation List No. 525/LP-2653),