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Reply To: | BP - "Preservationists shouldn't be neat freaks." -- Mary D |
Date: | Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:25:49 EDT |
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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
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