Per: Daytonian in Manhattan: The Lost St. Germain Hotel - 175 Fifth Avenue
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Anybody know anything about the building to the right?
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Looks a lot like the Sohmer Piano Building which is still standing.
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The link includes pictures and drawings of the Sohmer Piano Building renovation.
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Thank you. I’m there a lot but keep forgetting to look!
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Grand Central Depot NY 1871
Rendering from the first Grand Central Depot 1870
The unfinished Grand Central Depot from 45th Street and Vanderbilt Avenue, 1870
„ A midline depot stood at Fourth Avenue and 26th Street as early as 1845, when it burned, and in 1847 The Evening Post reported a “spacious freight house” at that site. It is possible that was the picturesque castlelike building seen in the 1860s view above left, at the northwest corner of 26th and Fourth, stretching back to Madison Avenue.“
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the statue or whatever that is on top of the 42nd st airline terminal building was moved to Richmond shortly after demolition and was installed at the BEST products headquarters. BEST products was a big box store famous for its outlandish storefronts, making the normal mundane shopping experience a hell of a lot cooler in my opinion. BEST products went out of business 1997 leaving all their storefronts to the wrecking ball except for one that is in the suburbs of Richmond. The last remaining storefront is now the West End Presbyterian Church. AANY WAY the headquarters now sits vacant and is slated for redevelopment. the developers for the site were quoted saying that they will save the statue thing and incorporate it into the new development.
“the eagles that once looked over 42nd street, stand in front the former Best Products headquarters building on Parham Road.”
source: Vanished New York City Art Deco: The Airlines Terminal - Driving for Deco. <—good read
Each store was unique, they really pushed the boundary of what was possible with big box retail stores
Heres a link about the church and the saved structure
Here are the concepts for the 2.3Billion dollar redevelopment called “green city”
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Andrew this is the first postcard of San Francisco in my collection the subject shows the newly emerging San Francisco.
Before the great earthquake of 1906
The Call Building is San Francisco’s first skyscraper built in the late 1890s, reminiscent of the Keenan Building in Pittsburgh.
1930s
An aerial view from the 1930s compared to the late 1980s.
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The Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority built the East Side Airlines Terminal in 1953. It occupied the block between 37th and 38th Streets and 1st and 2nd Avenues. The terminal operated as an easily accessible location for travelers, who were bused to New York airports after buying their tickets and checking their luggage. It closed in 1984
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Philadelphia Jayne Building | 8 floors | 113 feet | built 1851
Jayne Building
To some historians, the Jayne Building is the first skyscraper in America.
When the Janye Building was still under construction, construction began on the Bowen and McNamee Silk Warehouse in New York.
In this 1858 photograph, you can see the McNamee building on the right (it is behind the large dark building). It was the second in New York with prefabricated cast-iron elements after the Moffat Building. The building under construction is the American Exchange Bank Building which was completed in 1859.
American Exchange Bank Building in the Rundbogenstill
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Interesting, Jayne building was built before elevators.
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Singer Building in the background
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