Earning designations from NY's Landmarks Preservation Commission this week:-- two Federal-style rowhouses (circa 1823), at 486 and 488 Greenwich Street in the West Village, which somehow survived despite a transforming neighborhood over nearly two centuries
-- two turn-of-the-century French Renaissance revival mansions with mansard roofs on "Bankers' Row" off Fifth Avenue -- the former Edey mansion at 10 W. 56th St., a six-story home designed by Warren and Wetmore (who also crafted Grand Central Terminal) -- and the former Seligman mansion at 30 W. 56th St., a wider structure designed by Charles Pierrepont Henry Gilbert
-- three Depression-era swimming pools and recreation centers in the Art Moderne style, including Brooklyn's McCarren and Sunset Play Centers and East Harlem's Thomas Jefferson Play Center.
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Are there any interior photos of these landmarks?
Can't find interior shots, but here's what the NYT in 1994 had to say about the Seligman mansion:
In 1899, at age 42, Seligman married Addie Walter Seligman, the widow of his first cousin David, who had also been with the family firm. The newlyweds' six-story, 20,000-square-foot building was finished in 1902; it was the widest house on West 56th Street, and mixed English and French elements with a limestone front and mansard roof.
Inside, the main entry hall, running the full width of the lot, led to an entry stairway and a hall rising to a roof skylight. The interior was carried out in a variety of styles, including a half-oval Japanese-style smoking room and a library where "even the wastepaper basket" was in the Gothic style, according to The New York Tribune.
wondering if they will start to extend historic distorics in manhattan again. Brooklyn has
just had crownheights landmarked and now
they are pushing for dumbo. the lower east side
really needs...the developers are really destroying
this neighborhood.
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