Research Catalog

Title

359 Broadway Building, Borough of Manhattan : built 1852, architect unknown / Landmarks Preservation Commission.

Author

New York (N.Y.). Landmarks Preservation Commission, author.

Publication

[New York] : Landmarks Preservation Commission, [1990]

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Details

Additional Authors

• McHugh, Kevin (Architectural historian)
• Urbanelli, Elisa.

Description

17 pages : illustrations, map; 28 cm

Series Statement

• Designation list / Landmarks Preservation Commission ; 228
• New York (N.Y.). Landmarks Preservation Commission. Designation list ; 228.

Subjects

• Commercial buildings
• Architecture, Victorian
• 359 Broadway Building (New York, N.Y.)
• New York (State) > New York
• Buildings
• Immeubles commerciaux > New York (État) > New York
• Architecture victorienne > New York (État) > New York
• Architecture > Conservation and restoration > New York (State) > New York
• Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) > Buildings, structures, etc
• New York (N.Y.) > Buildings, structures, etc
• Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896
• Field & Correja
• Commercial buildings > New York (State) > New York
• Architecture, Victorian > New York (State) > New York

Note

• Caption title.
• Report prepared by Kevin McHugh, edited by Elisa Urbanelli.
• October 16, 1990."
• "LP-1758."
• "Landmark Site: Borough of Manhattan Tax Map Block 174, Iot 33"--Page 1.
• A distinguished early Italianate commercial building designed by the firm of Field & Correja.
• The top three floors of the building were used by pioneering photographer Mathew Brady as a portrait studio from 1853 to 1859, where he photographed many famous Americans. On the south side of the building a faded painted sign for Mathew Brady's Studio could once be seen by pedestrians on Broadway, but this was painted over before 1990.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 11-12).

OCLC

• ocm29734752
• 29734752

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries