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Daly's Theatre was a Broadway theatre at 1221 Broadway and 30th Street. It was built in 1867 and opened that year as Banvard's Museum but changed its name the following year to Wood's Museum and Metropolitan. In 1876 it became the Broadway Theatre, and finally was named Daly's Theatre in 1879 when it was acquired by Augustin Daly.
The Daly Mansion Preservation Trust was established that same year, in part with a donation from him. [3] In 1986, the Trust began renovations on the mansion, which had been abandoned and closed since 1941. By 1987 a few rooms had been restored and the building opened to the public. A more extensive renovation was started in 2005. [2]
[224] [227] The New York City government hoped that the relocation and renovation would attract visitors. [228] Hamilton Grange at St. Nicholas Park in October 2009. The building was raised on hydraulic jacks over 20 days in 2008, with wood cribbing installed under the foundation. [229]
[335] Conversely, in 1999, a New York Daily News reporter described the mansion as "never a home so much as it was a great vaulted hall" for Frick's art. [336] Christopher Gray of The New York Times said the mansion was "straightforward in most respects, but made peculiar by the long blank limestone finger stretching out on 71st Street". [198]
The Fifth Avenue Theatre was a Broadway theatre in Manhattan, New York City, United States, at 31 West 28th Street and Broadway (1185 Broadway). It was demolished in 1939. It was demolished in 1939. Built in 1868, it was managed by Augustin Daly in the mid-1870s.
Consider the property in Armonk, N.Y., an hour north of New York City, that he bought for $375,000 in 1993. It’s unclear whether he still owns it, but if so its value may have multiplied 10 ...
The James B. Duke House is a mansion at 1 East 78th Street, on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.The building was designed by Horace Trumbauer, who drew heavily upon the design of Château Labottière [] in Bordeaux.
The Harry F. Sinclair House is a mansion at the southeast corner of East 79th Street and Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.The house was built between 1897 and 1899.