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1836 brick Federal-style building now used as clubhouse for city-owned golf course. [18] Anshe Slonim Synagogue: Lower Manhattan: 1849 Oldest surviving synagogue building in New York City 203 East 29th Street: Kips Bay, Manhattan: 1790/1870 Private owned house dated back from 1790 or 1870 based on different sources.
Kansas City, Missouri: ca. 1859 Church The oldest church in Kansas City, Missouri. Built for the Antioch Christian Church which was organized in 1853. It was later restored in 1968 and moved by the congregation which uses it for special events today. [14] It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a Kansas City Landmark.
The New York Life Insurance Building (1888-1890) was designed by McKim, Mead, and White in downtown Kansas City. Kansas City, Missouri's first highrise is the New York Life Insurance Building, completed in 1890. It has twelve floors at a height of 180 feet (55 m) and is the first local building with elevators. After the New York Life Building ...
Times Square, in Manhattan Following is an alphabetical list of notable buildings, sites and monuments located in New York City in the United States. The borough is indicated in parentheses. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2012) American Museum of Natural History (Manhattan) Rose Center for Earth and Space America's Response Monument (Manhattan) Apollo ...
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission was created following the preservation fight and subsequent demolition of Pennsylvania Station. New York City's right to limit owners' ability to convert landmarked buildings was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1978.
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New York's "Newspaper Row", showing the first skyscrapers built in the late 19th century: (l to r) World Building, Tribune Building, 150 Nassau Street, and the Times Building. Also visible (left) is City Hall .
Oldest Dutch Colonial stone house in New York City, operated by the Greater Ridgewood Historical Society Voelker Orth Museum: Flushing: Queens: Historic house: Nature: German immigrant family’s 1890s home and garden, exhibits of cultural and horticultural heritage of Flushing, Queens and adjacent communities Waterfront Museum: Red Hook ...