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New York Architecture
Images-Soho Ehrich Brothers Emporium |
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architect |
William Schickel |
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location |
Sixth between 22nd and 23rd Streets. |
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date |
1889 |
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style |
Renaissance Revival |
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construction |
Cast Iron Facade |
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type |
Shop |
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notes |
There's an abiding mystery on Sixth between 22nd and 23rd Streets. This is the old Ehrich Brothers Emporium, built in 1889 by William Schickel and now home on the ground floor to a Burlington Coat Factory. Yet, the building features "K's" both in mosaic (right) and in terra cotta above the mosaic. Why K? Perhaps the architect's mother was named Kate?- a column from the February 5, 1995 New York Times which clears it up. The Ehrich Brothers store closed in 1911 and the building passed to Chicago merchants J.L. Kesner Company. Architects Taylor & Levi added new storefronts with Arts and Crafts style pilasters with terra cotta by Hartford Faience. Kesner left in 1913, so they were there only 2 years, but the K's are there, apparently forever! |
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