Christopher Gray has been documenting the sad slow-motion destruction of the Mount Morris Bank at Park and 125th in his New York Times column. In 1987, the endangered building was still seven stories (“The Mount Morris Bank: A Derelict Is Freshened Up, But Its Fate Is Still Uncertain” (30 August 1987)), but today just two stories remain (“A Once Proud Bank, Brought Low” (17 March 2010)).
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Scott Meacham, Lamb & Rich, Architects, and Related Firms: Buildings and Projects, 1877-1932 (2012).
New version of catalog — Henderson Place updated
The list (pdf) now numbers the houses of Henderson Place correctly.
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Henderson Place
The big project for John C. Henderson is always confusing, partly because eight of its houses have been demolished and others have been combined. Still, it is not clear that the historic district nomination got it right when it said there were originally thirty-two houses. The three building permits are for twelve, twelve, and six houses, a total of thirty, and the Sanborn maps of a few years later show only thirty houses (although one of them is given two numbers: 1 Henderson Place and 543 East 86th). The division of Henderson’s property following his death sets out these same thirty houses. To make matters worse, Charles Rich said or wrote in at least two places that there were forty houses. There is a gap on 87th where Henderson might have wanted to put houses, but that site couldn’t have held more than six of them.
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