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Title: A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC Real Estate Record Association Union League Club (New York, N.Y.), former owner. NNC
Subjects: Real estate business Building Architecture
Publisher: New York : Record and guide
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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Near the middle of the eighth decade appeared what has been
called "The Romanesque Revival" in New York. For a brief space,
until 1890 or later, it dominated architectural practice. Romanesque,
of course, was not a new thing in this country at that time, but the ex-
periments of earlier days were quite forgotten. The later popular-
ity of the style was due to the brilliant success of H. H. Richardson
with certain Provençal ornamental details which he adopted, modi-
fied and used with remarkable efTect. It was natural enough that his
famous Trinity Church at Boston (1877) should influence ecclesias-
tical work, but the adoption of the author's Romanesque manner in
a wholesale degree for residences, office buildings, stores and ware-
houses, is a very pointed example and proof of what has been said in
these pages about "fads" and "styles," and the modish nature of mod-
ern architectural practice. The best examples of the style in New
York are the Times Building. the United States Trust Building, the
Union Trust Building (1889), Market and Fulton Bank (1888), the
Telephone Building, Cortlandt street (1887): St. Agnes' Church
(1889). To these must be added the later works of Cyrus L. W. Eid-
litz, such, for instance, as the Raquet Club (1891), on West 44th
street; the Telephone Building, Broad street; the Bank for Savings

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RHINELANDER BUILDING
Rose Street, New York City (1892) Clinton & Russell, Architects.

BUILDING AND ARCHITECTURE IN NEW YORK. 609

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