Architect: Renwick & Sands Located on the southeast corner of 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue, Booth’s Theatre was run by celebrated American actor Edwin Booth (brother of John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham...
A piece in The Building News, seemed less that impressed that buildings could be constructed without architects, but seemed to welcome the process: “FOR many years past iron has been used for the...
Architect: W.W. Boyington The old Water Tower and Chicago Avenue Pumping Station are the only public buildings to survive in this area on Michigan Avenue destroyed by the Fire of 1871. It was...
The style of Saint Mary’s, Time Square New York is thirteenth-century French Gothic and is modeled on Sainte-Chapelle in Paris. The church is 180 feet long and 60 feet wide, with a height...
Architects: Goldie & Child Published in The Building News, June 30th 1873. The idea of a new Cathedral church in the city of Newark was first proposed in 1859 by the then bishop,...
Architect: George B. Post Constructed between 1868 and 1870 at 120 Broadway in New York City and was the first office building to feature passenger elevators. The building was destroyed by a fire...
Architect: James W. McLaughlin Opened in 1870 and in later years known as Old Main. The main hall with its towering book stacks and clearly expressed metal structure was a fantastic internal space....
Architect: Fuller & Laver From The Builder, May 28, 1870: STATE houses or capitals are rising in various parts of the United States and we have already given views of more than one....
Architect: L. Newcombe & Son Published in The Builder, September 14th 1872.
