Recent LPC Applications, April-May 2000

Lafayette Presbyterian Church, 85 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn:
Construction of wrought iron "Freedom Gates", commemorating the church's use
as a stop on the Underground Railroad; $13,220

Gorham Building, 390 Fifth Avenue: "trompe l'oeil painting of facade of
building imitating original McKim, Mead & White architects' design"
[mutilated about 1960]
Architect: Eric D. W. Cohler

1175 Park Avenue [1920's apartment house]: "etch the building address
directly into the facade stonework at grade level"   Architect: Tim Murphy,
Lawless & Mangione

139 East 94th Street: "replacing existing bronze-aluminum double-hung windows
at the street facades ... with new double-hung aluminum windows with a black
exterior finish", $300,000     Architect: Walter Melvin

775 Park Avenue (Rosario Candela's first super-luxury building): [application
in shaky printing, all caps, spelling as rendered here:] "REMOVING OLD SASHES
BECAUSE OF EXTREAM WARE.  LOSS OF HEAT, SUT & DUST INFILTRATION ETC,
REPLACING WITH NEW CUSTOM MADE WOOD SASH.  EXISTING FRAMES SILL EXTERIER
MOLDING REMAIN."
Contractor: "Precision Wood Winows"

Submitted by:  Spell Cheque