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Haarlem on My Mind: NYC's Dutch Style Architecture
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The Dutch origins of New York City are still visible in any number of places: neighborhood names, the city's flag, and its architecture. If you were to mention Dutch Colonial architecture to most New Yorkers, they might tell you about the centuries-old farmhouses that still dot the outer boroughs. But the Dutch-influenced architecture of the city did not end with gambrel-roofed, wood-frame homes, and it did not end at the colonial period. This list highlights some of the "other" type of Dutch Colonial architecture. The buildings noted here date from the actual colonial period in only a few cases but were largely constructed in the later as a Dutch Colonial Revival recalling New York's 17th century past.
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32 and 32 1/2 Stone Street, 1938. According to the metadata attached to this 1938 photograph (i.e. the photographer's notes), the Dutch-style building midframe dates to the early 19th century (and perhaps earlier). Here the building is occupied by the American Banker, a banking magazine. The photographer notes that the building managed to survive the Great Fire of 1835, which covered 17 city blocks and destroyed about 700 buildings. While it is certainly possible that this building dates to the colonial period, given that Stone Street was one of the oldest streets in the city, it is also possible that the photographer or the sources he consulted were incorrect and the building dated to post 1835. A mention of the structure next door in a 1954 New York Times article dates that extra narrow building's origins to the early 19th century, which strengthens the argument for this pair's colonial roots. The building just left of no. 32 was no. 32 1/2, which is reported in the same article as being only six feet, five inches wide. This section of Stone Street was demapped in the 1980s with the construction of the large office building at 85 Broad Street. (The original path of the street—the first paved road in the city— is marked by special paving through 85 Broad Street's lobby).
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Manhattan: Stone Street - Broad Street 24-40 Stone Street, south side, east from, but not including Broad Street, to Coenties Alley. No. 32 (the 3-story house with the gabled roof, in] the center of the view), is more than 100 years old, now serving as the home ; of the American Banker; a bank publication. In 1835, this building had its narrowest escape when the Great Fire of that year, which laid the greater part of that section south of Wall Street in ruins, burned up to the building's. side of wall, and went no farther. August 28, 1929. P. L. Sperr. N~Aieee,fo7 Wecg ~eg~24 (2) A view showing prominently the American Banker home at No. 32 Stone Street. To the left is a Manhattan pecularity, a structure on a 8.1O E 35.6 foot plot, bearing No. 32S.
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