East 73rd Street Historic District

The East 73rd Street Historic District is a section of the street on the Upper East Side of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. It is a neighborhood with small terraced houses that have arisen 1860-1920.

Some of these houses were originally carriage houses of wealthy residents of the Upper East Side, as. Example of Edward Harkness, and the facades of these buildings reflect today this origin Among the architects who designed these buildings, were Richard Morris Hunt and Charles Romeyn. Later in this area lived Joseph Pulitzer.

The road block has preserved its architectural peculiarities, although some buildings were replaced by larger and more modern. 1980, the section of road was declared a New York City Landmark and was added in 1982 in the National Register of Historic Places.

Geography

The buildings on both sides of the 73rd Street between Lexington and Third Avenues form the 5700 m² large historic district, more specifically it is about the 15 buildings 161-179 and 166-182. The area is flat and the historic district is located just outside of the greater Upper East Side Historic District, which was established later. The buildings in the historic district have a height of three to five floors and are therefore lower than most houses in the adjacent street blocks. All buildings in the historic district are regarded as contributing to the historic integrity of the district, there are no non- contributing buildings within its borders.

Structures

The buildings in the historic district can be classified into three types, the different periods of its formation represent: Italianate two rows of houses, 11 draws and two higher buildings that have been built to meet commercial purposes. The rows of houses are the oldest and most come from the initial phase of development on the Upper East Side during the Civil War. The draws came later, partly on the site of the demolished earlier built terraced houses, serving for commercial purposes buildings were towards the end of the development history of this road section.

Townhouse

The two remaining townhouses are located on the south side of the road, number 171 and 175 Both houses are narrow three-story brick building, built in 1860 in the Italianate style and at that time were part of a series of six original houses. In both houses, the jambs of windows and doors are made ​​of stone; they have decorated wooden cornices. At house number 171 has a cast-iron veranda is obtained, which covered the area in front of the ground floor. These porches were once common in the city, but are now very rare. The neo-Romanesque built house number 166 has a finely detailed resting on corbels cornice of brick, under the in cast iron digits is 1883, the year of the attached edification.

Remisen

All the sheds have a similar floor plan that apart from the later conversion into residential buildings and the use of different materials for the facades still exists. The entrance on the ground floor will be a large Torbogensm the most about, is sometimes also flattened. Special decorative elements such as icons or cartridges were minimally used. Inside these homes, which are two or three stories were comprehensively redesigned to meet its current residential purpose.

Among the draw houses fall 161 and 163 through the use of mounted in stone brick with limestone paragraphs. Symbols of cavalry such as saddle bags, horse heads and reins are carved on the ground floor in the facades. Your galvanized iron friezes are also provided with embossed garlands and rosettes. The neighboring building 165 East 73rd is a built in Beaux- Arts style building with yellow brick Roman type and stone engravings.

Ekletischer the architecture is a little further down on the south side of the road. At 168 East 73rd the roof line is interrupted by a stepped gable, a trademark of Flemish neo-renaissance, mainly engaged in the same extent as in this house is unusual in New York City. The neighboring houses 170 and 172-174 show features of the Neo- Grec style, the latter also some elements of the Queen Anne Styles has. The last building in the row of houses on the south side draw is House 178 East 73rd; here Beaux Arts designs were combined with neogeorgianischem brick masonry.

Commercial Buildings

The two commercial buildings 177-179 and 182 East 73rd Street with their five storeys, the highest buildings in the city block. Both were originally built for rental purposes, was over the period of the construction of 177-179 with the use of cars. In the building there is a built in Beaux- Arts style building with a visible base of limestone and granite, the middle floors are built of brick and terracotta spaced. The top floor is designed as a mansard and has three unusually large dormer window with soffit made ​​of terracotta. The mean dormer takes through the use of heavy stone blocks to the shape of a triumphal arch. For commercial buildings, the decoration of the building is extremely costly.

On the opposite side of the street 182 East 73rd, a neuro manic brick building with stone cornices and rotor rows which separate the various floors of each other. Above the fourth floor is the inscription "S Kayton & CO. " mounted in the middle of a provided with round arches console. Many of the windows are inserted into circular arcs.