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Competition design for a new Municipal Building, to be situated in City Hall Park, New York, [N.Y.] [graphic] / Benjamin Linfoot, Benjamin Linfoot, Jr., associate archts.

Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Visual Materials LAL*001*001
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Format:
Image
Author/Creator:
Linfoot, Benjamin, 1840-1912.
Contributor:
Linfoot, Benjamin Edis, 1872-1950.
Visual Materials Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
municipal buildings--New York--New York--Manhattan.
City Hall Park (Manhattan, New York, N.Y.).
Chambers to Mail & Broadway to Centre Sts. (Manhattan, New York, N.Y.).
Municipal Building (New York, N.Y.)--Competition drawings--1893.
Local Subjects:
City Hall Park (Manhattan, New York, N.Y.).
Chambers to Mail & Broadway to Centre Sts. (Manhattan, New York, N.Y.).
Municipal Building (New York, N.Y.)--Competition drawings--1893.
Physical Description:
2 drawings : ink on paper ; 74 x 112 cm. or smaller
Contained In:
Architectural drawings collection of Benjamin, Benjamin Edis and Benjamin S. Linfoot.
Place of Publication:
1893.
Notes:
Accompanied by a specification document: Short description of the accompanying drawings submitted in competition for the erection of a new Municipal Building, to be situated in City Hall Park, New York.
Drawing LAL*001*001 is a perspective rendering of the proposed structure. LAL*001*002 is a block plan, which appears to show new building in three units connected by walkways near the County Court House, which is shown on Chambers St. between Broadway & Centre. Park Way angles into Centre & Mail near the edge of the site. The specification document suggests that the building fronts on Broadway. The U.S. Post Office & Court House is show opposite the site further down on Mail St. at the end of Centre. Numerous other street names for the area are given.
Both the specification document & the drawings have "121", perhaps the competition number entry.
Forms part of: Architectural drawings collection of Benjamin, Benjamin Edis and Benjamin S. Linfoot.
Local Notes:
Athenaeum copy: Gift of Benjamin S. Linfoot and family,
Cited in:
Laverty, v.1, p.107, LAL*001/002

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