Mar 31
Shively Sanitary Tenements (East River Homes, now Cherokee Apartments), Yorkville, Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States The Shively Sanitary Tenements (also known as the East River Homes) are the product of a unique architectural approach to the major societal and medical problems caused by tuberculosis …
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Mar 30
Hidden away behind other buildings is one of the gems of Edinburgh’s Old Town, the Kirk of the Greyfriars: also known as the Greyfriars Tolbooth and Highland Kirk, or just simply Greyfriars Kirk. Churches are usually amongst the easiest of buildings to find, announcing their presence with a tower or …
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Mar 29
Mar 27
Hidden away behind other buildings is one of the gems of Edinburgh’s Old Town, the Kirk of the Greyfriars: also known as the Greyfriars Tolbooth and Highland Kirk, or just simply Greyfriars Kirk. Churches are usually amongst the easiest of buildings to find, announcing their presence with a tower or …
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Mar 27
Mar 26
Detached cottage and garden feature. Probably mid C18, altered late C18 and 1806 for Richard Colt Hoare. Dressed limestone and rubble stone, stone slate roof with half-hip to right and stone stack to left. Single-storey, 1-window. Entrance at right return in 1806 stone porch with pointed arched openings, planked door …
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Mar 26
Mar 26
Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States The Normandy Apartments is one of the most outstanding apartment buildings on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. A large eighteen-story (with nineteenth-story penthouse) twin-towered structure overlooking the Hudson River, it dominates the vista of Riverside Drive. Designed by Emery Roth, …
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Mar 26
York Minster is the second largest Gothic cathedral of Northern Europe and clearly charts the development of English Gothic architecture from Early English through to the Perpendicular Period. The present building was begun in about 1230 and completed in 1472. It has a cruciform plan with an octagonal chapter house …
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Mar 25
Created in 1928 for the home of Marjorie Merriweather Post, this window is located in the Tutor mansion’s Great Hall, now the administration building at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. The window is crafted of 10 intricate sections of leaded glass set into a plaster and stone …
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