210 Fifth Avenue
Posted on January 14, 2015 by — No Comments
A wonderfully opulent Beaux Arts fantasy by John B. Snook & Sons, who also completed the far more prosaic 118 Fifth Avenue to the south, 210 Fifth Avenue is a double-height wedge of Second Empire Paris, replete with scrolls, balconies and cartouches and topped with one of the avenue’s best mansard roofs. Built for a… Continue reading
118 Fifth Avenue
Posted on July 10, 2014 by — No Comments
Designed by John B. Snook & Sons in 1905, 118 Fifth Avenue is a handsome essay in the heavily modeled Beaux Arts work derived from Italian rather than French sources. Interestingly, the rustication of the first three stories blends in – and was designed to exactly match – that of 122 Fifth Avenue directly to… Continue reading