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H.H. Upham Building · 508 LaGuardia Place
H.H. Upham Building
H.H. Upham Building

[H.H. Upham Building, 508 LaGuardia Place, and 510-514 LaGuardia Place.]

IMAGE DATE1975
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H.H. Upham Company building, ca. 1975.

In 1891, the H.H. Upham Company, a leading manufacturer of commercial signs, moved into its new headquarters on South Fifth Avenue (later West Broadway and LaGuardia Place). The Romanesque Revival building, designed by the Brunner & Tyron firm, features terra cotta ornamentation a bronze cartouches inscribed with the company’s founding date and the date of completion for the new structure.

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