VALORANT Champions Tour 2024: Game Changers Championship - Day 3 BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 10: (L-R) suzu and coach ryota of ZETA DIVISION GC speak with Victoria Horsley, Jovi and theia of FlyQuest RED at the 2024 VALORANT Game Changers Championship Knockouts stage in Berlin, Germany on November 10, 2024. (Photo by Adela Sznajder/Riot Games)
Old Turn Junction, Worcester-Birmingham Canal, Birmingham 13 December 2014 An iron bridge, produced at the Horseley (Horsley) Ironworks in 1827, at Old Turn Junction.
The Horseley Ironworks was founded in the early 19th Century by Aaron Manby, at Tipton, Staffordshire. They became famous for their canal bridges, chiefly in the local region. The foundry closed down in 1991 and a housing estate has been built on it.
Philadelphia Museum of art - European Art 1850 – 1900 John Callcott Horsley, Lovers under a Blossom Tree/Amoureux sous un arbre en fleurs (ca 1859)
PA283425 Sheepleas, SSSI, West Horsley, Surrey
PA283424 Sheepleas, SSSI, West Horsley, Surrey
PA283444 Sheepleas, SSSI, West Horsley, Surrey View from Millenium Viewpoint
PA283428 Sheepleas, SSSI, West Horsley, Surrey Birch leaves
PA283432 Sheepleas, SSSI, West Horsley, Surrey Beech leaves
PA283431 Sheepleas, SSSI, West Horsley, Surrey
PA283439 Sheepleas, SSSI, West Horsley, Surrey. Common Ink Cap (Coprinopsis atramentaria)
PA283430 Sheepleas, SSSI, West Horsley, Surrey. Spindle Tree (Euonymus europaeus) berries
PA283436 Sheepleas, SSSI, West Horsley, Surrey. Honey fungus (Armillaria mellea)
PA283440 Sheepleas, SSSI, West Horsley, Surrey Fibrecap (Inocybe) ?
PA283433 Sheepleas, SSSI, West Horsley, Surrey Bracket fungus (Trametes ochracea)
The Queen's Building, Wolverhampton The Queen's Building, Wolverhampton.
Now with a new sign up.
Was in Wolverhampton for the Wolverhampton Monsters trail on it's final day.
Grade II listed building.
Queen's Building, Wolverhampton
WOLVERHAMPTON
SO9198NE PIPERS ROW
895-1/12/278 (East side)
03/02/77 Queen's Building
(Formerly Listed as:
HORSLEY FIELDS
(North side)
Former Railway Ticket Office)
GV II
Former entrance gateway to High Level Station, ticket offices
and board room; now Bus Station building. Opened 1st October,
1849; being refurbished at time of resurvey (1990). By Edward
Banks for Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company. Buff
brick with ashlar dressings; parapeted roof. 2 storeys; 6-bay
range, the 2 central bays wider. All but end bays articulated
by three-quarter columns; end quoins; ground floor has Doric
order with trigliph frieze, but end bays have stone panels to
brick frieze; 1st floor has Doric order but with Tuscan
entablature breaking forward over columns; attics to 2nd and
5th bays have angle pilasters. 2 round-arched carriage
entrances to central bays have tunnel vaults and angle
pilasters, archivolts and console-keystones, late C20 glazed
infill; flanking round-headed entrances have similar details;
end bays have round-headed openings with architraves,
spandrels, entablatures and pediments. 1st floor has
round-headed windows with panelled pilasters, archivolts with
console-keystones and C20 glazing, but end bays have windows
as to ground floor but without pediments. Attics have round
openings, one glazed, one with clock face. C20 single-storey
extensions to ends in similar style. Rear similar, but with
enriched capitals to 1st floor window pilasters. A reminder of
Wolverhampton's importance as a railway centre.
Listing NGR: SO9178398710
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
Bezerker - Wolverhampton Monsters - Queens Building There was 8 Wolverhampton Monsters to find in Wolverhampton City Centre during the Autumn half term holidays for kids, 25th October to 3rd November 2024. I ended up finding around 7 out of 8 on the final day of the trail.
Bezerker, Queens Building - Next to Wolverhampton Bus Station and the Wolverhampton Interchange.
Grade II listed building.
Queen's Building, Wolverhampton
WOLVERHAMPTON
SO9198NE PIPERS ROW
895-1/12/278 (East side)
03/02/77 Queen's Building
(Formerly Listed as:
HORSLEY FIELDS
(North side)
Former Railway Ticket Office)
GV II
Former entrance gateway to High Level Station, ticket offices
and board room; now Bus Station building. Opened 1st October,
1849; being refurbished at time of resurvey (1990). By Edward
Banks for Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company. Buff
brick with ashlar dressings; parapeted roof. 2 storeys; 6-bay
range, the 2 central bays wider. All but end bays articulated
by three-quarter columns; end quoins; ground floor has Doric
order with trigliph frieze, but end bays have stone panels to
brick frieze; 1st floor has Doric order but with Tuscan
entablature breaking forward over columns; attics to 2nd and
5th bays have angle pilasters. 2 round-arched carriage
entrances to central bays have tunnel vaults and angle
pilasters, archivolts and console-keystones, late C20 glazed
infill; flanking round-headed entrances have similar details;
end bays have round-headed openings with architraves,
spandrels, entablatures and pediments. 1st floor has
round-headed windows with panelled pilasters, archivolts with
console-keystones and C20 glazing, but end bays have windows
as to ground floor but without pediments. Attics have round
openings, one glazed, one with clock face. C20 single-storey
extensions to ends in similar style. Rear similar, but with
enriched capitals to 1st floor window pilasters. A reminder of
Wolverhampton's importance as a railway centre.
Listing NGR: SO9178398710
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
Bezerker - Wolverhampton Monsters - Queens Building There was 8 Wolverhampton Monsters to find in Wolverhampton City Centre during the Autumn half term holidays for kids, 25th October to 3rd November 2024. I ended up finding around 7 out of 8 on the final day of the trail.
Bezerker, Queens Building - Next to Wolverhampton Bus Station and the Wolverhampton Interchange.
Grade II listed building.
Queen's Building, Wolverhampton
WOLVERHAMPTON
SO9198NE PIPERS ROW
895-1/12/278 (East side)
03/02/77 Queen's Building
(Formerly Listed as:
HORSLEY FIELDS
(North side)
Former Railway Ticket Office)
GV II
Former entrance gateway to High Level Station, ticket offices
and board room; now Bus Station building. Opened 1st October,
1849; being refurbished at time of resurvey (1990). By Edward
Banks for Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company. Buff
brick with ashlar dressings; parapeted roof. 2 storeys; 6-bay
range, the 2 central bays wider. All but end bays articulated
by three-quarter columns; end quoins; ground floor has Doric
order with trigliph frieze, but end bays have stone panels to
brick frieze; 1st floor has Doric order but with Tuscan
entablature breaking forward over columns; attics to 2nd and
5th bays have angle pilasters. 2 round-arched carriage
entrances to central bays have tunnel vaults and angle
pilasters, archivolts and console-keystones, late C20 glazed
infill; flanking round-headed entrances have similar details;
end bays have round-headed openings with architraves,
spandrels, entablatures and pediments. 1st floor has
round-headed windows with panelled pilasters, archivolts with
console-keystones and C20 glazing, but end bays have windows
as to ground floor but without pediments. Attics have round
openings, one glazed, one with clock face. C20 single-storey
extensions to ends in similar style. Rear similar, but with
enriched capitals to 1st floor window pilasters. A reminder of
Wolverhampton's importance as a railway centre.
Listing NGR: SO9178398710
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
Bezerker - Wolverhampton Monsters - Queens Building There was 8 Wolverhampton Monsters to find in Wolverhampton City Centre during the Autumn half term holidays for kids, 25th October to 3rd November 2024. I ended up finding around 7 out of 8 on the final day of the trail.
Bezerker, Queens Building - Next to Wolverhampton Bus Station and the Wolverhampton Interchange.
Grade II listed building.
Queen's Building, Wolverhampton
WOLVERHAMPTON
SO9198NE PIPERS ROW
895-1/12/278 (East side)
03/02/77 Queen's Building
(Formerly Listed as:
HORSLEY FIELDS
(North side)
Former Railway Ticket Office)
GV II
Former entrance gateway to High Level Station, ticket offices
and board room; now Bus Station building. Opened 1st October,
1849; being refurbished at time of resurvey (1990). By Edward
Banks for Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company. Buff
brick with ashlar dressings; parapeted roof. 2 storeys; 6-bay
range, the 2 central bays wider. All but end bays articulated
by three-quarter columns; end quoins; ground floor has Doric
order with trigliph frieze, but end bays have stone panels to
brick frieze; 1st floor has Doric order but with Tuscan
entablature breaking forward over columns; attics to 2nd and
5th bays have angle pilasters. 2 round-arched carriage
entrances to central bays have tunnel vaults and angle
pilasters, archivolts and console-keystones, late C20 glazed
infill; flanking round-headed entrances have similar details;
end bays have round-headed openings with architraves,
spandrels, entablatures and pediments. 1st floor has
round-headed windows with panelled pilasters, archivolts with
console-keystones and C20 glazing, but end bays have windows
as to ground floor but without pediments. Attics have round
openings, one glazed, one with clock face. C20 single-storey
extensions to ends in similar style. Rear similar, but with
enriched capitals to 1st floor window pilasters. A reminder of
Wolverhampton's importance as a railway centre.
Listing NGR: SO9178398710
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
New York City - Central Park Bow Bridge
In the background you can see The San Remo
Im Hntergrund sieht man The San Remo
The Bow Bridge/ˈboʊ/ is a cast iron bridge located in Central Park, New York City, crossing over the Lake and used as a pedestrian walkway.
It is decorated with an interlocking circles banister, with eight planting urns on top of decorative bas-relief panels. Intricate arabesque elements and volutes can be seen underneath the span arch. Its 87-foot-long (27 m) span is the longest of the park's bridges, though the balustrade is 142 feet (43 m) long. While other bridges in Central Park are inconspicuous, the Bow Bridge is made to stand out from its surroundings. The Bow Bridge is also the only one of Central Park's seven ornamental iron bridges that does not traverse a bridle path.
The bridge was designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould, and completed in 1862. It was built by the Bronx-based iron foundry Janes, Kirtland & Co., the same company that constructed the dome of U.S. Capitol Building. The bridge was restored in 1974.The bridge was closed again in November 2023 for a two-month renovation.
(Wikipedia)
The San Remo is a cooperative apartment building at 145 and 146 Central Park West, between 74th and 75th Streets, adjacent to Central Park on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was constructed from 1929 to 1930 and was designed by architect Emery Roth in the Renaissance Revival style. The San Remo is 27 stories tall, with twin towers rising from a 17-story base. The building is a contributing property to the Central Park West Historic District, a National Register of Historic Places–listed district, and is a New York City designated landmark.
The 17-story base surrounds an internal courtyard to the west, while the 10-story towers rise from the eastern portion of the base. There are numerous setbacks between the 14th and 17th stories, which double as terraces. The first three stories are clad in rusticated blocks of limestone, with two main entrances at ground level. The remainder of the facade is made of light brick with terracotta ornamentation, as well as movable windows to improve air circulation. The tops of the towers contain "temples" with round colonnades and lanterns. The building has twin terrazzo and marble lobbies with molded plaster ceilings. On the upper stories, many apartments contain living and dining rooms arranged around a central gallery, as well as bedrooms in the rear. There were originally 122 apartments, each with six to sixteen rooms, but several apartments have been split or combined over the years.
The San Remo replaced an 11-story apartment building with the same name, built in 1891. The current apartment complex was the first building on Central Park West to incorporate large twin towers. The building opened in September 1930, attracting large amounts of commentary from the media. It soon went into receivership following the collapse of the Bank of United States, which held the mortgage. The San Remo experienced financial difficulties throughout much of the 1930s before being acquired in 1940 by an investment syndicate. The building was converted to a housing cooperative in 1972 following a failed conversion attempt in 1970. Over the years, the San Remo has been renovated several times. Its residents have included directors, actors, and musicians.
History
By the late 1920s, high-rise apartment buildings were being developed on Central Park West in anticipation of the completion of the New York City Subway's Eighth Avenue Line, which opened in 1932. Central Park West was concurrently widened from 48 to 63 ft (15 to 19 m). Under the Multiple Dwelling Act of 1929, this allowed the construction of proportionally taller buildings on the avenue. Just before the passage of the act, Emery Roth had designed the Beresford, seven blocks north of the old San Remo Hotel. In contrast to the San Remo, the Beresford had three towers, which were octagonal and relatively short.
Development
The New York Herald Tribune reported in mid-November 1928 that the original San Remo Hotel might be replaced with a 30-story apartment hotel. Two weeks later, a syndicate led by Henry M. Pollock bought the old San Remo from the Brennan estate, as well as several adjacent four-story houses to the west. The Pollock group planned to spend $7 million on a new building on the site. In April 1929, the Times Holding Corporation (which owned the San Remo Hotel) acquired a house at 4 West 75th Street. The firm planned to raze the house, which occupied part of the footprint of the new building's courtyard. The San Remo Hotel closed the same month, and the Ravitch Brothers filed plans for a new apartment hotel on the same site. That July, San Remo Towers Inc. transferred a $5 million mortgage loan on the new building to the Bank of United States. Within a month, leasing agents Pease & Elliman were renting out apartments at the new San Remo.
The San Remo Hotel had been demolished by September 1929, and the site of the new building was being excavated. The next month, Emery Roth filed plans for a 16-story apartment building on the site of the San Remo Hotel to cost $2.5 million. The plans were subsequently revised to a 26-story building, and the HRH Construction Corporation was hired that December as the general contractor.
The Bank of United States provided a $5 million loan in January 1930 to City Financial Corporation, one of its subsidiaries, which owned the building. The bank acquired 100 shares of San Remo Towers Inc. for about $1 million as part of a larger, $8 million transaction. By then, L. J. Phillips & Co. had taken over as the building's leasing agent. The San Remo ultimately cost $5.5 million to construct. HRH was paid $125,000 for its role as general contractor at the San Remo. HRH also agreed to manage the San Remo (as well as the Beresford, which it also built) in exchange for two percent of the buildings' gross profits. In a New York Herald Tribune article on September 14, 1930, the HRH Construction Company indicated that the San Remo would open that October.
Rental house
Opening and receivership
The building was completed on September 21, 1930. The developers advertised the San Remo as "The Aristocrat of Central Park West". Almost immediately, the San Remo experienced financial issues, despite critical acclaim in the architectural media. The surrounding area had suffered after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and shantytowns were built directly across the street from the San Remo during the Great Depression. After the Bank of United States experienced a bank run in December 1930, it shut down and its top officials were charged with recklessly using depositors' funds for speculation. The New York State Banking Department took over the bank's holdings, including the San Remo's mortgage. Early the next month, contractors placed $423,000 worth of liens against San Remo Inc., and the Bank of United States moved to foreclose on the building's $5 million mortgage loan.[ Joseph Ravitch, head of HRH Construction, testified that the bank and its affiliates owed him $40,000 for the San Remo's construction. In April 1931, a court-appointed receiver for the San Remo received permission to borrow $60,000 to pay the building's property taxes.
In spite of all these issues, a broker claimed in mid-1931 that large apartments at the San Remo were being steadily rented. Following further negotiations, the Banking Department liquidated all claims against the San Remo except for its own lien. The Banking Department announced in October 1931 that it would foreclose on the building. At the time, 88 of the 128 apartments had been rented,[representing 70 percent of the units. These tenants paid an estimated $513,000 annually, more than sufficient to cover the operating costs. In early 1932, a court-appointed referee recommended that the building and land be sold together.[86] The San Remo was placed for sale at a foreclosure auction that February, and the Bank of United States (still part of the Banking Department) acquired the building, bidding $1,021,000. In December 1932, the bank gave a new first-mortgage loan of $1.5 million to the San Remo Realty Company, a subsidiary of the bank that had taken over the building.
1930s to early 1970s
Throughout the Depression, the building went bankrupt several times and passed to numerous owners. The owners reduced rents and created 20 additional apartments by subdividing four of the duplexes in the south tower and some vacant units at the base. The Banking Department announced in July 1935 that it would refinance the building with a $3.1 million loan from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and would use the funds to distribute dividends to the Bank of United States' depositors. Some creditors expressed opposition to the mortgage, but a representative of the Banking Department said the state government wished to sell the building and that a mortgage would facilitate such a sale. A state judge approved the mortgage that September. By 1938, there were 117 families in the building. As the state was trying to find a buyer for the building, its staff went on strike in March 1938 and again in November 1938. The journalist Peter Osnos wrote that the San Remo and other Central Park West apartment houses contained many Jewish residents during the 1930s and 1940s, since these buildings were not "restricted", unlike others on the East Side.
In July 1940, a group of anonymous investors acquired the San Remo and Beresford, assuming a combined $7.4 million in mortgages on the two structures. The buildings themselves cost only $25,000, although they had cost a combined $10 million to build. One observer likened the sale to "buying the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth for pocket change". The investment group was known as the Sanbere Corporation, a portmanteau of the two buildings' names. The San Remo's staff occasionally went on strike, such as in 1942 and in 1950. The San Remo also had twenty rooms for maids, many of which had been converted to tenant storage spaces or offices by the early 1960s.
By the mid-1960s, a dozen apartment buildings on Central Park West had been converted into housing cooperatives. At the end of the decade, Harry B. Helmsley and his partner Lawrence Wien proposed converting the San Remo into a cooperative. Helmsley had an option to acquire the San Remo for $12 million and planned to sell it to tenants for $15 million. Most residents supported the idea of a co-op conversion, but 86 percent of residents objected that the prices for each apartment, at over $100,000 each, were far too high. A group of tenants organized to express opposition to the proposal. Helmsley and Wien withdrew their plan in June 1970 because not enough residents had purchased shares in the cooperative, despite having lowered the prices for each apartment. For the offering to go into effect, at least 35 percent of the residents had to buy shares. Helmsley lost $1.25 million in the process, amid a weakening market for co-op apartments, and the San Remo reverted to its previous owners.
Cooperative conversion
1970s to 1990s
An investment syndicate, the Nominee Realty Corporation, bought the building for $9 million in July 1971. Nominee Realty did not originally intend to convert the building into a co-op, but it agreed to sell the building to its tenants to reduce costs. The tenants released a $10.8 million co-op offering plan in May 1972, including a $1 million contingency fund. About 85 percent of tenants bought shares in the cooperative within four months, and the co-op offering went into effect in September 1972. The co-op board initially did not seek official city-landmark status for the building, as that would have raised the cost of maintenance. The building retained most of its original windows, except for two upper-story apartments, where the windows were replaced with single panes in the early 1970s. Afterward, the San Remo's co-op board banned window replacements in anticipation of a potential city-landmark designation. Paul Goldberger, president of the co-op board, said the board members had a "self-imposed tradition of treating the building as if it were a landmark".
The San Remo's co-op board began restoring the facade in the early 1980s. The terracotta details atop the building's temples were replicated in lightweight concrete. All other terracotta was preserved or replaced in the same material. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) designated the San Remo as a city landmark in March 1987. As a result, the LPC was obliged to review all proposed changes to the exterior. The board planned to replace the multi-paned windows with three-pane windows that resembled the original design. Due to the high cost of renovating the windows, the San Remo's co-op board decided to replace the windows only when apartments had been vacated. The exterior restoration ultimately lasted about one decade.
By 1996, units in buildings on Central Park West were in high demand. For instance, one unit in the San Remo was purchased after being listed for just three days, while another unit received an unusually high number of inquiries from Upper East Side residents. Another renovation of the exterior began in the late 1990s. The south tower had been restored by the end of 1999, and work on the north tower was scheduled to be conducted.
2000s to present
The San Remo's board voted in 2000 to impose a six-month time limit for apartment renovations, imposing heavy fines on residents who violated the rule. Many residents had complained that director Steven Spielberg and entrepreneur Steve Jobs were conducting multi-year renovations of their respective apartments. In 2006, the San Remo's co-op board banned residents from using fireplaces. By the end of the decade, prices exceeded $3 million even for comparatively small apartments with two bedrooms. Some residents owned their apartments for long periods. When an apartment in the south tower was placed for sale in 2010, only one south-tower apartment had been sold in the preceding 16 years. In another case in 2011, the previous owner had resided in the apartment since the 1950s.
The San Remo attracted many residents in the entertainment industry, especially as compared to other Central Park West buildings, where wealthy people lived in relative obscurity. By the 2010s, many of the celebrities who had lived in the San Remo had moved out, and a growing proportion of residents worked in the finance industry. Among the remaining celebrities in the San Remo in 2017 were musician Bono and actor Steve Martin.
Impact
Reception
Because the San Remo was the earliest twin-towered apartment building on Central Park West, its completion attracted large amounts of commentary from the press. The New York Times characterized it as "an imposing addition to the tall structures overlooking Central Park". In March 1931, the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects presented a model of the San Remo Towers, describing it as "an interesting development of the new dwellings law where large plottage permits the erection of towers". George S. Chappell, writing under the pseudonym "T-Square", praised the design of the casement windows in The New Yorker.
Several observers also commented specifically on the San Remo's towers. Chappell wrote that the towers "are fine in silhouette". In the 1970s, Paul Goldberger described the San Remo as "the best of the four twin‐towered buildings that bring such splendid life to the Central Park West skyline", at a time when Roth's firm mostly designed buildings with glass facades. Carter B. Horsley of The New York Times described the spires in 1972 as having been included "almost as an excuse to imitate the architecture of the past". Horsley subsequently listed the San Remo as having one of the ten best water-tower enclosures in New York City. The writer Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis said in 2021: "The San Remo's Choragic towers served as outward markers of architectural elegance that could be used to lend distinction to broad, tall apartment buildings that might otherwise run the risk of being drably similar to one another."
The building's architectural style and materials were also the subject of commentary. Goldberger favorably compared the San Remo's classical design with that of the Majestic, which was designed at exactly the same time in a modern Art Deco style. John Freeman Gill of the Times wrote in 2005 that the San Remo was one of several buildings on Central Park West whose bases exhibited "the comfortable old solidity of limestone". Eric Nash, in his 2005 book Manhattan Skyscrapers, wrote that "the towers play powerfully against the background element of the sky, etching the setback image in negative space", similarly to the Petronas Towers.
In the late 20th and early 21st century, the San Remo generally had a reputation for being luxurious. In 1996, a writer for Interior Design magazine said the San Remo was "among the Upper West Side's top-drawer co-ops, the buildings that evoke the basic emotions of lust and envy when one thinks-or dreams-of the apartments within". During the 2000s, The New York Times said the presence of Central Park West's "architectural gems", such as the San Remo, contributed to increased housing prices on the eastern side of Central Park, along Fifth Avenue. The Wall Street Journal referred to the Beresford, the Dakota, and the San Remo as the "three grand dames of the West Side". Additionally, the artist Max Ferguson created an oil painting of the San Remo in 2004. Several books have used the painting on their covers, including a 2011 edition of the Jack Finney novel Time and Again.
Landmark designations
The building is a contributing property to the Central Park West Historic District, which was recognized by the U.S. National Register of Historic Places when its nomination was accepted on November 9, 1982. In 1984, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) hosted hearings to determine whether the Century, Majestic, San Remo, Beresford, and El Dorado should be designated as city landmarks. Manhattan Community Board 7 supported all five designations, but the San Remo's co-op board was concerned about whether a landmark designation would hinder the replacement of windows on the building. The LPC designated the San Remo as a city landmark on March 31, 1987. The San Remo is also part of the Upper West Side Historic District, which became a New York City historic district in 1990.
(Wikipedia)
The San Remo ist ein exklusives unter Denkmalschutz stehendes Apartmenthochhaus in Manhattan auf der Upper West Side in New York City, Vereinigte Staaten. Es ist neben dem The Majestic, dem The Century und dem The El Dorado eines von vier in den 1930er Jahren gebauten Häusern mit Zwillingstürmen an der Central Park West (Eighth Avenue).
Beschreibung
Das Hochhaus steht an der Central Park West zwischen der West 74th Street und West 75th Street direkt gegenüber dem Central Park, in dem sich nur 200 Meter entfernt die Gedenkstätte Strawberry Fields für John Lennon befindet. Ein bekanntes Nachbargebäude ist das ein Block südlich stehende The Dakota, in dem einst John Lennon wohnte. An der Ecke Central Park West/West 72nd Street befindet sich ein Zugang zur Station 72 Street der New York City Subway, die von den Linien und bedient wird.
Der vom Architekten Emery Roth 1930 fertiggestellte Bau ersetzte das vorher an dieser Stelle stehende Hotel „San Remo“, dessen Name für das neue Apartmentgebäude übernommen wurde. Es ist mit einer Höhe von 121,9 Meter (400 Fuß) und 27 Etagen das höchste von mehreren bekannten Apartmentgebäuden an der Westseite des Central Parks. Weitere von Roth in der Central Park West gebaute Häuser sind: The Beresford, The Eldorado und The Ardsley. Weniger als ein Drittel so hoch ist das The Dakota.
Das Gebäude hat einen U-förmigen Grundriss mit einem T-förmigen Innenhof und nimmt die gesamte Blocklänge zwischen der 74th und 75th Street ein. Den Übergang vom 17-stöckigen Sockel zu den beiden Türmen bilden mehrere Rücksprünge und Terrassen. Die nahezu identischen rechteckigen Türme haben zehn Stockwerke und werden von runden Türmchen im römischen Stil gekrönt, die von fünf Meter hohen korinthischen Säulen und mehreren von Urnen gekrönten Eckpfeilern umgeben sind. Den Abschluss der Turmspitzen bilden kupferne Knäufe. Der dreistöckige Sockel ist mit Kalkstein verkleidet, darüber besteht die Fassade aus Ziegelstein und Terrakotta. Das Gebäude beherbergt 136 Genossenschaftswohnungen (Co-op). Die Nord- und Südhälften haben je eine eigene Lobby und einen separaten Eingang mit eigener Adresse (Südhälfte: 145 Central Park West, Nordhälfte: 146 Central Park West). Vom Central Park aus gesehen bildet The San Remo ein beliebtes Foto- und Malereimotiv.
The San Remo wurde am 31. März 1987 von der Landmarks Preservation Commission zum Denkmal der Stadt New York erklärt. Das Gebäude ist Bestandteil des am 9. November 1982 vom National Register of Historic Places ausgewiesenen Central Park West Historic Districts, und es ist des Weiteren Teil des Upper West Side Historic District, der 1990 zu einem historischen Viertel von New York City ernannt wurde.
Prominente Bewohner
Heute ist das San Remo mit der Lage am Central Park eine der gefragtesten und mit Apartmentpreisen zwischen drei und 24 Millionen US-Dollar auch eine der teuersten Adressen in New York City. Einige der prominentesten Bewohner sind oder waren Steven Spielberg, Dustin Hoffman, Bono, der sein Apartment von Steve Jobs kaufte – welcher die Immobilie aufwändig renovieren ließ, aber nach Auskunft des Maklers[8] nie eine Nacht dort verbrachte –, und Bruce Willis.
Madonna hingegen hat vergeblich versucht, ein Apartment im San Remo zu kaufen. Sie scheiterte am Widerspruch des „Board“ – der Eigentümervertretung.
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Edward Fake Fake, Edward, Company Quartermaster Sergeant, 18444, 7th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment
Born Coxbench, Derbyshire
Enlisted Ilkeston, Derbyshire
Residence Coxbench, Derbyshire
Disembarked for service 11th September 1915
Killed in action 5th November 1918 aged 31
Son of John and Alice Fake, of Horsley Lane, Coxbench, Derbyshire
Buried in Sebourg British Cemetery, France, Grave Reference: B. 16
1911 Census
A coal miner loader
Son of John, a colliery banksman above ground, and Alice Fake, of Horsley, Derbyshire
Sidney Daniells Daniels, Sidney, Sapper, 112826, 172nd Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers
Born Horsley Woodhouse, Derbyshire
Enlisted Ilkeston, Derbyshire
Resided Holbrook, Derbyshire
Disembarked for service 14th September 1915
Killed in action 16th October 1915 aged 29
Husband of Miriam Daniels, of Brown's Lane, Holbrook, Derby.
Commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France
1911 Census
A coal miner hewer
Husband of Miriam Daniels, of Butchers Lane, Horsley Woodhouse, Derbyshire
Pension Records
Husband of Miriam (born 14th May 1886); father of Henry Daniels (born 9th February 1914), of Brown's Lane, Holbrook, Derby
Also commemorated on the Richardson Endowed School, Smalley War Memorial; and the Horsley Woodhouse War Memorial
Arthur Clarke Clarke, Arthur, Gunner, 821742, D Battery, 116th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Previous service number 1527
Awarded the Military Medal
Born Horsley Woodhouse, Derbyshire
Enlisted Derby
Disembarked for service 4th October 1915
Died of pnuemonia 29th October 1918 aged 22
Son of Jabez and Harriett Clarke.
Buried in Kirechkoi Hortakoi Military Cemetery, Greece, Grave Reference: 371
1911 Census
A farm labourer
Visiting the home of George Woolley, a gritstone quarryman, of Woodside, Morley, Derbyshire
Also commemorated on the Richardson Endowed School, Smalley War Memorial; and the St. John The Baptist Church, Smalley War Memorial
Frederick Haywood Attenborough Attenborough, Frederick Haywood, Private, 52391, 7th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
Formerly 116146, 1st Battalion, Notts and Derby Regiment
Born Smalley Common, Derbyshire
Enlisted Ilkeston, Derbyshire
Resided Horsley Woodhouse, Derbyshire
Killed in action 19th September 1918 aged 22
Commemorated on the Vis en Artois Memorial, France
1911 Census
A coal miner pony driver
Son of James, a coal miner hewer, and Rose Attenborough, of 58, Blunt Street, Smalley Common, Derbyshire
Pension Records
Husband of Gertrude (born 1st July 1893); father of Eva Attenborough (born 17th September 1917), of Horsley Woodhouse, Derbyshire
Also commemorated on the Richardson Endowed School, Smalley War Memorial; and the St. John The Baptist Church, Smalley War Memorial
Mapperley Collieries War Memorial The Mapperley Collieries War Memorial is situated next to the West Hallam First World War Memorial, The Village, West Hallam. It was moved here following the demolition of the West Hallam Memorial Hall where it was originally based.
Inscription:
MAPPERLEY COLLIERIES
ROLL OF HONOUR OF THOSE WHO HAVE GIVEN
THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND COUNTRY IN
GREAT WAR 1914 – 1919
James Adcock
Alfred Antcliffe
George Athorn
Arthur Attenborough
Fred Attenborough
Thomas Attenborough
James Aram
Duncan Hamilton Blunt
Albert Chapman
Montmorency B. Checkland
George Clare
Arthur Clarke
Daniel Clark
William Cope
Sydney Daniell
Thomas Davis
Frank Daws
C. Eccleshare
Richard Elliott
William Lewis Evans
Edward Fake
Arthur Fletcher
Joseph Foulks
Robert Froggatt
Harry Fowers
John George Green
Thomas Green
James Hanson
Walter Hall
Roland Hazell
William Hazlewood
Harold Horsley
John G. Hardwick
William Hiorns
Fred W. Hodgkiss
Harry Kirkham
Frederick Keates
J. Knight
David Males
Albert Edward Marshall
Thoms Marshall
George Ridgard Mee
Mark Mee
Britus Martin
Luther Martin
Clifford Miller
Archie Moore
Percy Mosely
Wilfred Moss
Henry Newton
Archie Page
Sam Peach
W. A. Place
Albert Potter
C. E. Radford
Thomas Robinson
George Sands
Arthur Smith
Fred Taylor
Wilfred Taylor
John Thurman
Cyril Toplis
James Weston
William H. Whitney
George Wilson
“I expect to pass through this world but once. If, therefore, there is any good thing that I can do, or any kindness I can show my fellow-men, Let Me Do It Now. Let me not defer, nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again”
Stagecoach North East AD Trident 2 Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 NK58FNJ 19444, new in January 2009, operating service X34 to Horsley Hill at Newcastle on 5 May 2024. 54088868939_d1e28a0e24_b