RIVERDALE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NEW YORK
The owners of local estates donated the money to build this Gothic Revival church and its interesting stone manse, but William E. Dodge, Jr., whose nearby villa was under …
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MURDOCK AVENUE NEW YORK
This section, known as Addisleigh Park, is an affluent black community. The neighborhood was established in 1892 after developers bought a large farm, laying out streets and building lots. …
MORRIS-JUMEL MANSION NEW YORK
This house, built by Colonel Roger Morris, was occupied at various times during the Revolution by George Washington and the British army. It became a tavern before it was …
ST. GEORGE’S CHURCH NEW YORK
Francis Lewis, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was a warden of this parish, established in the 1750s. This building replaced its original church, which had stood on …
UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY NEW YORK
This non-denominational school for future clergy is widely regarded as a center of liberal theology. Its faculty has included such well-known theologians as William Sloan Coffin and Reinhold Niebuhr, …
ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE NEW YORK
The entire block of Clinton Avenue between DeKalb and Willoughby Avenues is the most beautiful in Clinton Hill, thanks to four mansions built by members of the Pratt family, …
MONTEFIORE APARTMENTS II NEW YORK
One of the tallest apartment houses in the Bronx, you can see this building for miles. It serves the community around Montefiore Medical Center, which moved to the northern …
RESIDENCE, BISHOP OF BROOKLYN NEW YORK
This mansion was built for Charles Millard Pratt. The semi-circular conservatory on the south side features a spectacular bronze lamp, which undoubtedly burned the elder Pratts Astral Oil. It …
THE CLOCK TOWER NEW YORK
This was originally one of a group of buildings (it was designated number seven of twelve) all representing the earliest use of reinforced concrete construction. They were built by …
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY NEW YORK
Although construction on this building was begun in 1912, because funding was slow in coming, it wasnt completed for almost thirty years. The original library, opened in Bedford, in …