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The Offerman Building is a historic building at 503–513 Fulton Street in the Downtown Brooklyn neighborhood of New York City.Designed by Danish architect Peter J. Lauritzen in a Romanesque Revival style, the eight-story building was built between 1890 and 1892 as a commercial structure, housing the S. Wechsler & Brother department store.
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is a museum and National Historic Site located at 97 and 103 Orchard Street in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The museum's two historical tenement buildings were home to an estimated 15,000 people, from over 20 nations, between 1863 and 2011.
The three residences served as "the homes of many distinguished citizens of New York". [8] [9] [a] Also on the site were two stables built before 1910 at the addresses 24 and 26 East 40th Street. [11] By 1920, commercial concerns had relocated to the area, [8] which The New York Times called "a great civic centre". [12]
The East 73rd Street Historic District is a block of that street on the Upper East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan, on the south side of the street between Lexington and Third Avenues. It is a neighborhood of small rowhouses built from the mid-19th to early 20th centuries.
The street was formally laid out in 1696, the first street north of still-palisaded Wall Street. [6]By 1728, a market was held at the foot of Maiden Lane, where it ended at Front Street facing the East River; by 1823, when it was demolished and disbanded, [7] the Fly Market, [a] selling meat, country produce and fish under its covered roofs, was New York's oldest. [8]
It was the third building of the Germania Bank, which was founded in New York City in 1869. The building was designed in a Renaissance Revival [1] or Beaux Arts [2] style by Robert Maynicke and was built in 1898–99. The building became a New York City designated landmark on March 29, 2005.
The Astor Court, located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, is a re-creation of a Ming dynasty-style, Chinese-garden courtyard. It is also known as the Ming Hall (明軒). The first permanent cultural exchange between the U.S. and the People's Republic of China, [1] the installation was completed in 1981.