Truemors
So I guess sometimes they drape buildings in a painted canvas with pictures of windows and other architectural details to cover up the maintenance and construction that is going on. New Yorkers are artistic, and love beauty. Sometimes in ways they don't even notice.
This building with its Beaux-Arts teracotta design, is being converted to luxury apartments. Units here are selling for between $1.6 million and $12 million. My, my.
"Built in 1896 by Robert Maynicke as the Merchant Bank of New York building, its white brick, banded columns and distinctive domed roof cupola are representative of the beaux-arts architecture popular in New York City around the turn of the last century.
Maynicke designed the former New York Times building at Park Row and Spruce Street, now part of Pace University, and the New York Commercial Buildings on Broadway and Washington Place, now part of New York University. This is his first building to be converted for strictly residential use. The conversion and restoration of 141 Fifth Ave. is being overseen by Cetra/Ruddy Architects, the firm responsible for the conversion of the Barbizon Hotel and the new Lincoln Square Synagogue."
-from an article by DAVID FREEDLANDER, Special to the Sun | July 5, 2007
Downtown Manhatten.
New York City.
May 28, 2008.
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