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Barnum's American Museum was a dime museum located at the corner of Broadway, Park Row, and Ann Street in what is now the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City, from 1841 to 1865. The museum was owned by famous showman P. T. Barnum , who purchased Scudder's American Museum in 1841.
Peter Bonnett Wight FAIA (August 1, 1838 – September 8, 1925) was an American 19th-century architect from New York City who worked there and in Chicago. National Academy of Design Biography
The New York Five was a group of architects based in New York City whose work was featured in the 1972 book Five Architects. [1] The architects, Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk, and Richard Meier, are also often referred to as "the Whites". [2] Other architects and theorists have been associated with the group ...
The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-674-00636-4. Focuses on Barnum's exhibition of Joice Heth. Saxon, Arthur H. P. T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-231-05687-7. Uchill, Ida Libert. Howdy, Sucker!
The Trinity Building, designed by Francis H. Kimball and built in 1905, with an addition of 1907, [1]: 1 and Kimball's United States Realty Building of 1907, [2]: 1 located respectively at 111 and 115 Broadway in Manhattan's Financial District, are among the first Gothic-inspired skyscrapers in New York, and both are New York City designated landmarks.
New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Portnoy, Lawrence (1898). A History of real estate, building, and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century. Real Estate Record Association – via Internet Archive. Landau, Sarah; Condit, Carl W. (1996). Rise of the New York Skyscraper, 1865–1913. New Haven, CT: Yale ...
The Liberty Tower was designated a New York City landmark in 1982, [36] and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 15, 1983. [1] The deteriorating facade was restored for $6 million in the 1990s, with residents being charged an average of $55,000.
The 41 Park Row lot, and the adjoining lot immediately to its south (now the Potter Building site), was the site of the Old Brick Church of the Brick Presbyterian Church, built in 1767–1768 by John McComb Sr. [7] [31] Starting in the early 19th century and continuing through the 1920s, the surrounding area grew into the city's "Newspaper Row ...