Identifier: historyofrealest00durs (find matches)
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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the (lilsey Hotel andthe Tiffany store are examples, and with the final productions of theGothic revival. It would be interesting to trace at S(\inK length the personal sideof architectural history, l)ut too much space would be required. Wemust mention, however, that )Mr. Hunt, who had spent the troublousyears of the Rebellion in European study, had returned, in 1868, toNew York to resume the practice of his profession, and Mr. GeorgeB. Post was about to receive his first important commission—as en-gineer rather than as architect—that for the Equitable Life Build-ing, associated with Messrs. Gillam & Kendall. We mention Mr.Hunt and Mr. Post because it may fairly be said they represent per-haps more notably than any other two individuals the thoroughlytrained and technically educated element which, about thirty yearsago, commenced to gain an ascendancy in the profession. It is, per-haps, invidious to select these two names from a list that includes 596 HlSrORY OF KRAI. EST ATE
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