The New-York Historical Society, founded in 1804 as New York's first museum, holds an extensive collection comprising of more than 1.6 million works of American art, historical artifacts, and other materials documenting the history of the United States as seen through the prism of New York City and State.
The granite museum building, located at 170 Central Park West, was built from 1902 to 1908 to the classic Roman Eclectic Style design of York & Sawyer. In 1938, the central block was extended with pavilions on either end--one of the last Beaux-Arts style construction projects in New York City--by Walker & Gillette.
The New-York Historical Society was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966.
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The Fourth Universalist Society is a Unitarian Universalist congregation and has been a liberal religious presence in New York City for over 160 years, welcoming people of all cultural, religious, racial and ethnic backgrounds to worship and join. The term "Universalist" originally referred to "universal salvation". This is the belief that a loving god would not condemn anyone for eternity. Universalists always stressed reason and love over guilt and retribution.
Founded in 1838, The Fourth Universalist Society is the sole survivor of seven Universalist churches in New York City. In 1961 Universalists merged with the like-minded Unitarians to form the Unitarian Universalist Association. There are over 1000 UUA congregations in the USA and Canada. There are four other UUA congregations in New York City and many in the tri-state area.
The Universalist cathedral was completed in 1898 and was designed by the noted architect William A. Potter. The tower and features of the sanctuary are replicas of the medieval tower and buildings at Magdalen College in Oxford, England. The cathedral features an altar by Louis Comfort Tiffany, relief sculpture by Augustus St. Gaudens and stained glass windows by Clayton and Bell of London.
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The San Remo, a luxury co-operative apartment at 145-146 Central Park West, was designed by Emery Roth in 1939. Construction began weeks before the Great Depression. In the 1970s, the San Remo converted toa coop.
Roth took advantage of new zoning regulations to build the first of New York's twin towered apartment blocks, each ten-story tower topped with an English Baroque mansion in the manner of John Vanbrugh and capped with an homage to the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates. The Athenian monument was known to Roth from the reproduction that had featured in the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893.
When the San Remo was originally designed, it had a wide range of relatively luxurious apartment configurations. The apartments were accessed from opulent lobbies which contained terrazzo floors, marble walls and custom light fixtures of bronze and frosted glass.
The average apartment contained eight rooms spread over approximately 3,000 sq. feet. Above the 14th floor, the building began a series of setbacks, which allowed for terraces for the various units from floors 14 through 17.
Past and present residents of the building include such famous personalities as Steven Spielberg, Donna Karan, Steve Jobs, Demi Moore, Dustin Hoffman, Steve Martin, Bruce Willis, Eddie Cantor, Robert Stigwood, Marshall Brickman, Jackie Leo, Don Hewitt, and Texas natural gas heiress Adelaide de Menil. Rita Hayworth spent her last years there.
The San Remo was designated a landmark by the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1987.
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The Fourth Universalist Society is a Unitarian Universalist congregation and has been a liberal religious presence in New York City for over 160 years, welcoming people of all cultural, religious, racial and ethnic backgrounds to worship and join. The term "Universalist" originally referred to "universal salvation". This is the belief that a loving god would not condemn anyone for eternity. Universalists always stressed reason and love over guilt and retribution.
Founded in 1838, The Fourth Universalist Society is the sole survivor of seven Universalist churches in New York City. In 1961 Universalists merged with the like-minded Unitarians to form the Unitarian Universalist Association. There are over 1000 UUA congregations in the USA and Canada. There are four other UUA congregations in New York City and many in the tri-state area.
The Universalist cathedral was completed in 1898 and was designed by the noted architect William A. Potter. The tower and features of the sanctuary are replicas of the medieval tower and buildings at Magdalen College in Oxford, England. The cathedral features an altar by Louis Comfort Tiffany, relief sculpture by Augustus St. Gaudens and stained glass windows by Clayton and Bell of London.
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