Midtown South, Broadway Between 26th and 25th Streets

Mary Sargent © 2009 ………click to enlarge

Now on this side of the street, this is the doorway I pass through to get to my rolfer. See the way the front door is set in in a slant? I don't remember seeing such a thing before, so I went looking for a mention of it on the web. No luck. Although Landau and Condit discuss the St. James Building (named for a hotel formerly on the site) in their book Rise of the New York Skyscraper, and describe its architectural details, they do not mention this aslant door.

It was built by Bruce Price in 1896 and according to Landau and Condit, "it joined other tall buildings that in the 1890s began to transform the low-rise theater and shopping section around Madison Square and Madison Square Garden into the medium-rise, mercantile district that it has remained."

Mary Sargent © 2009 ………click to enlarge

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16 stories high.

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