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New York Architecture Images- Gone 116 West Eleventh Street Building |
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architect |
James Renwick |
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116 West Eleventh Street |
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1854 |
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High Victorian Gothic |
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builder- Rhinelander, William C |
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House |
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WROUGHT IRON ORNAMENT: 112-114 West 11TH
STREET FEBRUARY 3, 1937. ABBOTT FILE 198 THREE-DECKER HOUSES: WEST 11TH STREET,
BETWEEN SIXTH AND SEVENTH AVENUES On the day she photographed Bread Store, Abbott took two views of Rhinelander Gardens, a row of balconied houses on West 112-114 11th Street. Set back on their lots to allow for ample front yards and adorned with neo-Gothic balconies, these houses were designed in 1855 by James Renwick, architect of Grace Church (1845) and St. Patrick's Cathedral (1878-1888). They were built as rental properties for William C. Rhinelander, a powerful Greenwich Village landowner. In Plate 21, Abbott focused on the decorative ironwork of the balconies at the expense of showing the entire row. In Plate 22, she showed the row, juxtaposed with the Unadilla Apartments (1899). A Sheffield Farms milkwagon, similar to the one she photographed on nearby Grove Street, had stopped mid block, followed by an ice delivery wagon (left). Although Abbott had a keen eye for unnoticed but distinctive ironwork, the fanciful balconies of Rhinelander Gardens were well known. The Gardens were near other Village landmarks on Abbott's itinerary: Rhinelander Row and Patchin Place. The West 11th Street row survived until 1958, when it was torn down for a much-needed new public school. The Unadilla Apartments still stand. |
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| Special thanks to the Museum of New York, www.mcny.org | |
