DK Travel : New York : Architecture

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Abraham Lincoln

This pensive figure by Henry Kirke Brown was commissioned shortly after the president’s assassination in 1865.
American Standard Building

Raymond Hood’s first New York skyscraper is an ornate black tower built in 1924, now a hotel.
Ansonia Hotel

This 1908 apartment-hotel included soundproof partitions, a feature that has attracted many distinguished musicians.
Apthorp Apartments

Modeled after an Italian Renaissance palazzo, this luxury 1908 building includes a huge interior courtyard.
Belnord

Even larger than the Apthorp, this 1908 Renaissance Revival structure is where Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer lived and wrote.
Carnegie Hall

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).
Cathedral of St. John the Divine

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).
Century

Irwin Chanin’s second twin tower, the tallest on the block, and an Art Deco icon.
Chanin Building

One of the great early Art Deco skyscrapers (c.1929) notable for its terra-cotta frieze and bronze band illustrating the theory of evolution.
Chester Alan Arthur

Arthur became the 21st President when James Garfield was assassinated. George Edwin Bissell sculpted him in 1898, standing in front of an elaborate chair.