404 Fifth Avenue, The Stewart Building
404 Fifth Avenue is a wonderful amalgam of the Chicago School with 18th Century English taste. Also known as the Stewart Building, this beautifully crisp Sullivan-style skyscraper is finished in terra cotta ornament that recalls the blue-and-white “jasper-work” of Josiah Wedgwood, here reproduced with an extravagant surety that renders the classical motifs newly abstract. Warren & Wetmore,… Continue reading
Just Off Fifth: 7 East 10th Street, The Lockwood de Forest House
One of the great treasures of Greenwich Village, the beautiful Lockwood de Forest House is a unique landmark of the Aesthetic Movement in American architecture. Located at 7 East 10th Street, just off Fifth Avenue, the house is now New York University’s Edgar M. Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life. Once called “the most Indian house… Continue reading