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It was built about 1810 by Warren Hull, one of Erie County's earliest pioneers. It is in the Federal style and includes the family burial plot in the rear of the property. [2] It is the oldest stone house in western New York and is currently owned by the Hull Family home association. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
Oldest surviving structure in New York, oldest in Brooklyn, oldest on Long Island. Zachariah Hawkins House: Stony Brook: 1660 c. Klinkenberg(h) Bouwerji Coxsackie: 1663 c. One of oldest surviving Dutch homes north of greater New York City area. On the western shore of Hudson River.
The razing of buildings for the construction of the complex began in 1950, and the buildings were completed on April 1, 1953. [3] [7]The key sponsor of the development was State assemblyman John J. Lamula and it was named after four-time New York Governor Al Smith (1873–1944), the first Catholic to win a Presidential nomination by a major political party and a social reformer who made ...
The Bartow–Pell Mansion is a historic house museum at 895 Shore Road in the northern section of Pelham Bay Park, within the New York City borough of the Bronx.The two-story building, designed in the mid-19th century by an unknown architect, has a Greek Revival facade and federal interiors and is the last surviving manor house in the Pelham Bay Park area.
Ada Louise Huxtable described the buildings in 1968 as "one of the best buildings New York could and can claim, then or now". [190] The New York Times reported in 1971, "The complex has long been regarded as one of New York City's architectural treasures." [171] The houses remained relatively nondescript through the late 20th century. [259]
The land Marcy is on was bought in 1945 by the City of New York; it had been the site of an old Dutch windmill. [2] [4] Homes and businesses (including two banks) were cleared for the construction of Marcy, as well as sections of Hopkins, Ellery, Floyd (now Martin Luther King Jr. Place), and Stockton streets that went through where the complex now sits. [4]
When, in the late 1970s, a young Los Angeles filmmaker named Jane Spiller commissioned Frank Gehry to design her home in Venice, California, it was an early but groundbreaking period of Gehry’s ...
The former Commandant's House is set on a bluff overlooking the western side of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a few blocks south of the East River. It is accessed via a gated drive at the junction of Little and Evans Streets. The house is three and a half stories in height, of wood-frame construction, and finished in wooden clapboards.