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Julio Carballo Fields
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Sevilla Home for Children, ca. 1920. This castle-like building in Hunts Point was named for and endowed by Jose Sevilla, a Peruvian immigrant to NYC who made a fortune here. When he died in 1886 he provided funds for an institution, which was incorporated as Sevilla Home for Children in 1889. This building would not be constructed until 1908. The non-religious charity took in mentally and physically healthy yet destitute girls between the ages of five and ten, who were surrendered by their guardian. The institutions merged in the 1940s a few times with other mission-similar organizations and it is unclear when this building was abandoned or demolished.
Printing Money in Hunt's Point
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The American Bank Note Company Printing Plant is endearingly referred to as the "Penny Plant" by locals. According to its landmark designation, it was "built at a time when industrial engineering was expressed in the design of industrial buildings." The arsenal-like quality of the three-building complex "embodies a sense of strength and efficiency."
American Bank Note Company Printing Plant
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American Bank Note Company Printing Plant ca. 1925 Squeezed out of lower Manhattan by rising land prices and the need to expand and modernize its production line, in 1909 The American Bank Note Company began construction of a new plant in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx designed by Kirby, Petit & Green. Completed in 1911, the steel-framed, T-shaped building was organized along the sloped site and divided into two wings. A narrow five-story building with a crenellated tower containing the engraving and lithography departments fronted Lafayette Avenue, while the printing presses were housed in a larger interior three-story rear building with sawtooth skylights that flooded the spaces with glare-free northern light. Massive brick piers articulate the street façade, contributing to the building's fortress-like character. Two thousand employees worked in the factory which was considered the most advanced printing plant of the time. The building was designated a New York City landmark in 2009 and will be renovated for mixed office and retail uses.
American Bank Note Company Printing Plant
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Edward G. Faile Mansion, 1908. Edward Faile was a wealthy tea and sugar importer who constructed a massive mansion in 1832. The larger estate had been in his family since prior to the Revolutionary War and included other structures that dated to that century. Called "Woodside" the home was fronted with massive Doric columns and surrounded by forest woods. A late 19th century account of the home also noted three other random but specific features of the estate: a flock of peacocks, a large Cedar of Lebanon tree, and two sturdy wooden chairs that supposedly came over on the Mayflower. Faile died in 1870 and his family continued to reside in the home until the 20th century. In 1908, the American Bank Note Company purchased the large estate. The homes on the tract were soon after razed. Today the massive American Bank Note Company occupies the land that once included the stone mansion.
Public School 48
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P. S. 48, Joseph Rodman Drake School, The Bronx Serving the Hunts Point section of the Bronx, P.S. 48 was named for American poet Joseph Rodman Drake. Built in 1916, the building’s brick and limestone exterior is neo-Gothic, a popular architectural style at the time. With its relatively high location on the hill, the building serves as a landmark for local residents.
American Bank Note Company Printing Plant
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American Bank Note Co.'s Plant, ca. 1911. The American Bank Note Company was incorporated in 1858 (though its history dates back to the 1790s and the work of engraver Joseph Perkins). For the rest of the 19th century it was the nation's most prominent printing and engraving company, producing bank notes, postage and revenue stamps, bonds, stock certificates, checks drafts and letters of credit for governments and institutions. American Bank Note produced American currency from 1858 to 1879 and even made Confederate money for a year or so during the Civil War. In 1911, they built this five-story brick plant in the Bronx, designed by Kirby, Petit & Green, a firm who were known for other printing facilities including the plant that produced the San Francisco Examiner. The Gothic, fortress-like character of the building with its large and complete frontage of Lafayette Avenue from Tiffany to Barretto Streets makes it an imposing structure in this neighborhood. The American Bank Note Plant moved out of this building in 1986 (to a modern facility in Rockland County) and in the ensuing decades the building housed garment manufacturing, an alternative high school, and most recently a luxury condo named The Banknote.
1230 Spofford Avenue
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"1230 Spofford Ave., Album possibly used in the real estate development business of Fred F. French Investing Company, New York, ca. 1940."
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Public School 48
Bronx 24, P.S. 48 (The Joseph Rodman Drake), 1280-90 Spofford Ave; Jerry Spearman, Photographer
Public School 48
1230 Spofford Avenue
Julio Carballo Fields
Julio Carballo Fields
Bronx 23, Shelter for Delinquent Children, 763 Lafayette St; Jerry Spearman, Photographer
800 FAILE STREET
SUNNYSLOPE MANOR
801 Edgewater Road
Bronx: Edgewater Road - Lafayette Avenue Edgewater Road, at Lafayette Ave. September 2, 1936. Works Progress Administration. Federal Art Project photo.
American Bank Note Company Printing Plant
Tiffany Street and Lafayette Avenue. American Banknote Company. Interior, auditorium
American Bank Note Company Printing Plant
American Bank Note Co.'s Plant, Tiffany St. Bronx
American Bank Note Company Printing Plant
Tiffany Street and Lafayette Avenue. American Banknote Company. Interior, cafeteria
American Bank Note Company Printing Plant
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