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New York Architecture
Images- Gone New York Herald Building |
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McKim, Mead and White |
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at Broadway and 34th Street. |
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date |
1894,Demolished 1921. |
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Renaissance Revival: a direct take on Fra Giacondo'd Palazzo del Consiglio in Verona. |
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Office Building |
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| Statuary usually just stands there and does nothing. Not so Minerva, the Bellringers and Owls by Antonin Jean Carles, which originally graced the nearby New York Herald building which gave the square at Sixth and 33rd its name. Every hour on the hour, Stuff and Guff ring the big bell. The statues were moved here when the Herald building was torn down. | |
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"The New York Herald Building is an example of the selection of an exterior form that serves as an envelope and almost completely contradicts the interior.... ...A perfectly circular entrance lobby contrasted with the remainder of the interior, but gave to the visitor a sense of order, the same order that the harmonious exterior gave to the irregular site and the surrounding disorder of the city." — Richard Guy Wilson. McKim, Mead & White Architects. New York: Rizzoli, 1983. p50-51. |
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