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This pensive figure by Henry Kirke Brown was commissioned shortly after the president’s assassination in 1865.
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Raymond Hood’s first New York skyscraper is an ornate black tower built in 1924, now a hotel.
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This 1908 apartment-hotel included soundproof partitions, a feature that has attracted many distinguished musicians.
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Modeled after an Italian Renaissance palazzo, this luxury 1908 building includes a huge interior courtyard.
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Even larger than the Apthorp, this 1908 Renaissance Revival structure is where Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer lived and wrote.
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Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie financed the city’s first great concert hall, built in 1891. Major renovation in 1996 restored the wonderful interior bronze balconies and ornamental plaster, and added a museum. Corridors are lined with memorabilia of the great artists who have performed here (see Carnegie Hall, Carnegie Hall).
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The world’s largest cathedral was begun in 1892 and is still a work in progress. The part-Romanesque, part-Gothic building is impressive for its stonework, enormous nave, bay altar windows, and rose window. The seat of New York’s Episcopal archdiocese, the church is the scene of many avant-garde musical and theatrical events (see Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine).
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Irwin Chanin’s second twin tower, the tallest on the block, and an Art Deco icon.
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One of the great early Art Deco skyscrapers (c.1929) notable for its terra-cotta frieze and bronze band illustrating the theory of evolution.
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Arthur became the 21st President when James Garfield was assassinated. George Edwin Bissell sculpted him in 1898, standing in front of an elaborate chair.
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