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Learn about the history and architecture of Ladies' Mile, a former shopping district in Manhattan, New York City. Find out how it became a landmark and what buildings are still standing today.
The Tiffany and Company Building was designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White for luxury retail store Tiffany & Co. [5] [13] It is the company's fifth flagship store in New York City. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The facade is an adaptation of the Palazzo Grimani di San Luca in Venice .
A former Châteauesque mansion at 660 Fifth Avenue in New York City, built by Alva Vanderbilt in 1882. It was demolished in 1927 and replaced by a commercial building.
The Lord & Taylor Building is located on an L-shaped lot at 424–434 Fifth Avenue between West 38th and 39th Streets in Midtown Manhattan. [2] Its frontage totals about 260 feet (79 m) to the south on 38th Street, 200 feet (61 m) to the west, 160 feet (49 m) to the north on 39th Street, and 150 feet (46 m) to the east on Fifth Avenue.
Still, Bayrd, ed. Mirror for Gotham: New York as Seen by Contemporaries from Dutch Days to the Present (New York University Press, 1956) online edition Stokes, I.N. Phelps. The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 compiled from original sources and illustrated by photo-intaglio reproductions of important maps plans views and documents in ...
New York City residence of A. T. Stewart, corner of 34th Street and Fifth Avenue. In 1869 and 1870 A. T. Stewart built the first of the grand Fifth Avenue palaces, on the northwest corner of 34th Street, across from the doyenne of New York society, Caroline Schermerhorn Astor. [16] His architect, as for the store, was John Kellum.
B. Altman and Company was a luxury department store chain founded in 1865 by Benjamin Altman in New York City. It moved to Fifth Avenue in 1906 and closed in 1990 after a series of ownership changes and bankruptcy.
Five Points was a densely populated, disease-ridden, crime-infested neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, from the 1820s to the 1890s. It was known for its poverty, immigration, and social problems, and was the setting of the novel and film The Gangs of New York.