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2 Park Avenue (Loft building : New York, N.Y.), 1927
1 drawingBlue-line print of bronze Subway sidewalk sign post design.
Kahn & Jacobs architectural drawings and records, 1893-1965, bulk 1893-1950
8,313 architectural drawingsFurniture Exchange Building. Alterations, 1925-1952 Nyda.1978.001 03638 to 03692
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- Primary creator: Buchman & Kahn
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Primary creator: Buchman & Kahn
111 John Street (New York, N.Y.). Office building, 1882-1952 Nyda.1978.001 05553 to 05640
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Primary creator: Buchman & Kahn
Palmer Shannon cameragraphs of architectural renderings, 1921-1929
120 itemsAlso, McKim, Mead & White; Pearsall and Mills; Boring and Tilton; Peabody, Wilson and Brown; Holabird and Root; John B. Peterkin; York and Sawyer; Jackson, Robinson and Adams; George Vernon Russell; John H. Barry; Pliny Rogers; Allen and De Young; Augustus N. Allen; Henry Ives Cobb, Jr.; Bottomley, Wagner and White; Andrew J. Thomas; Harvey Stevenson; R.A. Tissington; John C. Dodd; Walker and Gillette; Grosvenor Atterbury, John Tompkins Assoc.; Donn Barber; Wakefield Worcester; Farrar and Watmough; Henry Wright II; Ralph Thomas Walker; Schultze and Weaver; Henry B. Marsh; Hunter McDonnell; and a few unidentified architects
New York Architectural Terra-Cotta Company records, 1892-1921, bulk 1911-1920
100 linear feetFiles of the company, 1911-1920, much of which consists of unsucessful architectural bid documents, each noting the architect, building, and location, as well as estimated costs, sketches, and related correspondents. These bid documents represent commissions not awarded to NYATCC, and do, in some cases, indicate the outcome of the bid. Architects represented include McKim, Mead & White; Cass Gilbert; George Post; D.H. Burnham & Company; Warren & Wetmore, Schwartz & Gross, and many others. Also includes correspondence and office memoranda, including some describing the formative years, 1911-1914, of the National Terra Cotta Society, trade catalogs, and job photographs. Also, two albums containing photographs of sample pieces of terra cotta, and month by month construction records for three buildings, including the American Theater (42nd Street, New York, 1892) by Charles Coolidge Haight; the Renaissance Apartments (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1889) and the Imperial Apartments (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1890) both by Montrose Morris.
Guastavino Fireproof Construction Company architectural records, 1866-1985, bulk 1890-1942
40.1 linear feetHospital for Joint Diseases (New York, N.Y.), 1922 Jul 22-1923 Mar 23 Range nyda.1963.002.01697 - 01703
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- Architect: Buchman & Kahn
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Architect: Buchman & Kahn
Percy and Harold D. Uris papers, 1901-2003
277.5 linear feetThis collection primarily contains materials related to Percy and Harold Uris and their real estate businesses. Correspondence, financial records, and estate papers document the professional and personal lives of the brothers and their wives. The bulk of the business records are from their properties at 380 Madison Avenue and 300 Park Avenue. There is limited information about the other Uris properties and Uris Building Corporation. Finally, the collection contains records from the Uris Brothers Foundation, Inc about the family's philanthropic endeavors.
Subseries 7.13. Court Square Building, 1930-1952
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- finished in 1927. Buchman & Kahn were the architects of this twenty-three-story building. With an agreement
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Comprised of correspondence and financial records for the Court Square building and company. The correspondence discusses business operations, taxes, financial performance, accounting work, mortgage with Prudential Insurance Company, union employees, commissions, and the management of the building by Durand Taylor Company. Within the financial records there are statements on the building's operations, collections and disbursements, income and expenses, and estimated budget. There also are accountant reports, balance sheets, profit and loss accounts, authorizations for expenditures, and other analysis. The paid invoices, 1950-1952, document payroll, professional services, utilities, commissions, office supplies, insurance premiums, fees, taxes, employee reimbursement, mortgage payments, petty cash expenditures, and other business expenses.
Ely Jacques Kahn papers, 1906-1986, bulk 1906-1972
3 manuscript boxesThe collection consists of papers related to the personal and professional life of American architect Ely Jacques Kahn. A small amount of personal papers was transferred from the Arendts Library at Syracuse University in 1992. Additional personal papers, including two large scrapbooks, were donated by Liselotte Kahn, wife of Ely Jacques Kahn, in 1992 and 1993. Also found in this collection are student drawings and an incomplete autobiographical essay, donated to Avery Library by Kahn himself in 1963. Completing the Kahn holdings are personal materials from Ely Jacques Kahn, including drawings done while Kahn was a student at the Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Paris (1907-1908), sketchbooks, diplomas, autographs from fellow students, a typescript of Kahn's autobiography, and scrapbooks containing clippings, photographs, telegrams and other ephemera. Additionally, there is a small holding for Liselotte Kahn within the collection, including her unpublished memoirs, some correspondence, and a watercolor painting. Liselotte Kahn's memoirs describe her childhood in Germany; her marriage to Dr. Ernst Müller and the birth of their sons; Nazi anti-Semitism; their emigration to Greece; her husband's medical practice in Athens; the Italian and German invasion of Greece; their escape to Palestine; and their emigration to and experiences in the United States.