The (old) Metropolitan Opera House
Source: Library of Congress The Academy of Music (which was located at the corner of 14th Street and Irving Place)
The John Purroy Mitchel Memorial Flagstaffs at the NYPL
In December 1911, two eighty-five foot tall Oregon pine flag poles were erected on Fifth Avenue, in front of
World’s Tallest Buildings: New York City Edition
Newspaper Row. Photo via Library of Congress From 1890 to 1974, the world’s tallest building was located in New
The Last Riker House
Marion Duckworth Smith at the front door, painted red, which symbolized welcoming to the Dutch The Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead,
The treasures of the Montparnasse Cemetery
Exploring Paris’s cemeteries–(Montmartre, Montparnasse, Passy, Père Lachaise, and Picpus)–can be a rewarding task. Artists, statesmen, and industrialists
King Manor Museum: A Colonial Find in Queens
King Manor Museum, or the Rufus King House, is a hidden historical Colonial treasure in Queens. Despite the A.I.
Daily What!? A Trip to the Moon in the West Village
Hugo, Martin Scorsese’s film adapted from Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret, reminded me of my favorite
Lost: 33 Foot High, 8 Ton, Statue — Have You Seen It?
In 1868, the New York Life Insurance Company relocated its headquarters uptown to a Griffith Thomas designed Italianate style building.
Les Cimetières de Paris | The treasures of the Passy Cemetery
Exploring Paris’s cemeteries–(Montmartre, Montparnasse, Passy, Père Lachaise, and Picpus)–can be a rewarding task. Artists, statesmen, and industrialists
The New York City that Never Was: Part IV A Visionary Dream of the 1916 Zoning Resolution
This is the fourth installment of the series, the New York City that Never Was (Part I: Buildings, Part II:
The Secrets of Fort Washington Park
We attended a tour of Fort Washington Park with David Freeland, author of Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville, who, having
OHNY: General Theological Seminary
Since 2003, Openhousenewyork (OHNY) has facilitated free-access to architectural gems throughout the city. This year I stopped by General