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Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company Building
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New York County National Bank ARCHITECT: DeLemos & Cordes; Rudolph L. Daus DATE: 1906-07 STYLE: Neo-Classical The Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company Building, built in 1907, is an exceptionally fine and well-conceived example of the neo-Classical bank type; that the overall design, though small in scale, employs the monumental classical type in a unified and structurally expressive manner. The well-proportioned composition superimposes two classical architectural systems, a trabeated and an arcuated order. The design is enhanced by fine stone carving, ‘Which incorporates Beaux-Arts ornamental motifs, classical symbols, and naturalistic elements. Among the noteworthy ornamental details are the entrance and window aedicules, the foliated spandrels, the classical balustrade and the imposing eagle in the pediment.
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79 Eighth Avenue, ca. 1980. One of two landmark banks on this corner, the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company Building was constructed in 1907 to the designs of De Lemos & Cordes. Created in the model of the "City Beautiful" movement, which postulated that beautiful civic and commercial buildings could promote moral and civic virtue among urban populations, the architects produced a stately, classical building that has enured more than a century.
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Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company Building
8th Avenue at the S.W. corner of 14th Street. New York County National Bank.
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company Building
14th Street and 8th Avenue. N.Y. County National Bank.
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company Building
Building, bank, Chatham & Phoenix National Bank, Eighth Ave. and 14th St.
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company Building
\[8th Avenue and 14th Street: BMT Canarsie Line] Photographic negative showing southwest corner of 8th Avenue and 14th Street and the east and north faces of bank during construction of the BMT Canarsie Line. Camera is stationed at station 28+30, 3' south of north curb on 14th Street. Also shows construction workers, factories and apartment buildings.
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company Building
Manhattan: 8th Avenue - 14th Street (West) Eighth Avenue, west side, north from 4. 14th to 15th Streets. Shown at the N. W. corner of 14th Street is the New York Savings Bank. View 3 is limited to this structure. No. 2 is photographed from atop the apartment house, No. 2 Horatio Street. It includes the New York Port Authority Building as a backdrop. On the right is the towering County Trust Building. This structure stands on the cleared site shown in the right foreground of View 1. Additional construction shown is for a new subway. View 1: May 30, 1929 View 2r March 16, 1933 View 3: February 14, 1932 P. L. Snerr
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company Building
Manhattan: 8th Avenue - 14th Street (West) Eighth Avenue, west side, north from 4. 14th to 15th Streets. Shown at the N. W. corner of 14th Street is the New York Savings Bank. View 3 is limited to this structure. No. 2 is photographed from atop the apartment house, No. 2 Horatio Street. It includes the New York Port Authority Building as a backdrop. On the right is the towering County Trust Building. This structure stands on the cleared site shown in the right foreground of View 1. Additional construction shown is for a new subway. View 1: May 30, 1929 View 2r March 16, 1933 View 3: February 14, 1932 P. L. Snerr
75 Eighth Avenue
West side of 8th Avenue below 14th Street
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company Building
Manhattan: 8th Avenue - 14th Street (West) Eighth Avenue, at the S. W. corner of 7. 14th Street (right) showing the former New York County National Bank building. THis institution was absorbed by the Manufacturesf Trust Company. Note in View 2 the changed title across the facade. View 1: March 21, 1931 View 2: February 14, 1932 P. L. 5perr
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company Building
Manhattan: 8th Avenue - 14th Street (West) Eighth Avenue, at the S. W. corner of 7. 14th Street (right) showing the former New York County National Bank building. THis institution was absorbed by the Manufacturesf Trust Company. Note in View 2 the changed title across the facade. View 1: March 21, 1931 View 2: February 14, 1932 P. L. 5perr
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company Building
Manhattan: 14th Street (West) - 8th Avenue 14th Street, sourth side, from Eighth Avenue to Hudson Street and Ninth Avenue, inclusive, showing the New York County National Bank in its marble building, 77-9 Eighth Avenue on the S.W. corner of 14th Street, erected around 1906 on the site of its older location, 79 Eighth Avenue. By 1934 this building will be occupied by a branch of the Manufacturers Trust Company. Adjoining the bank is 306-12 West 14th Street, a double apartment house built around 1913 or 1914 (see 310-12 West 14th Street, about 1912), and beyond it what used to be the Daggett & Ramsdell Building, 314 West 14th Street. In the middle of the block stands St. Bernard's Roman Catholic Church (1873-5). On the eastern side of Eighth Avenue, 14th Street is partially boarded over, as work is in progress on the extension (opened 1932) of the B. M. T. 14th Street subway. May 31, 1930. P. L. Sperr.
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