#Stephen Decatur Hatch

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Architectural Finds, 06/24/2023

My walk today was a brief 20 minutes, I was meeting up with a friend from upstate for some chai who had come down the night before to stay with some other friends. We met up at the Chai Spot on Mott St. (which I definitely now recommend) and we relaxed in their backroom lounge with our chai's for 45 min or so. She eventually had to leave to catch her bus back upstate & I walked her to the subway stairs hugged her and said goodbye. Feeling the warm weather on my skin and the caffeine in my veins I decided to walk up Broadway, here were some of the architectural highlights.

This cute turret room on the top of the building on the NE corner of Bleecker & Broadway. Doing the smallest ammount of googling I am finding out this was Peter Venkman's (Bill Murray) apartment in Ghostbusters 2???? ok.

It just looks like it would be such a whimsical little tower to hang your hair from, idk.

Building Facts: Built in 1891 as the Manhattan Savings Institution, also known as Bleecker Tower. Architect Stephen Decatur Hatch.

Built in the Romanesque Revival style with arches and ornaments, as well as the red sandstone and signature rough cut stone of this style on the base of the building (definitely why it caught my eye, I love Richardson Romanesque/romanesque revival).

The tower on top eludes my brief internet search, but if anyone has pictures of the inside please direct them to me.

Next up we have this lil copper cutie who looks like it just got a face lift judging by the shiny copper facade on top. It is currently a FootLocker so hopefully they're treating her nice.

Building Facts: (obv) Built in 1889 by Architect Alfred Zucker.

The menacing gargoyles are cute.

(maybe more of an opinion than a fact, but) there used to be a bookstore called Shakepeare's on the bottom floor and the top floors were 1-per-floor studio spaces for artists to live/work in, & I wish that was the case today, not footlocker and high rent.

MOVING ON, we've got this pair of cuties. Don't they look like the best of friends holding hands ready to face the world side by side? These guys are 734 (left) and 732 (right) Broadway.

734: Built in 1872 by Architects David & John Jardine in Cast-Iron Neo-Grec style. Until ~2015, the facade had become a rusted brown/black mess until they cleaned and repainted it.

732: Built in 1854 by unknown.

This little building has a complicated past but ill try and summarize the small dig I just did on it. Originally it was a 3.5 peaked-roof building as a set of 3 houses for wealthy sisters (daughters of John Mason) from 732-736 designed by an undocumented architect. It underwent large renovations twice in its life, and one small renovation adding the Treffurth's sign on the roof cornice. The first renovation happened in 1885 by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh (god write a romance novel already would you) and allowed the introduction of E. A. Mac's bookstore to take the place of the earlier saloon on the bottom floor. It was then renovated in 1900 by Bruno W. Berger to the Cast-Iron more or less Renaissance Revival facade we see today.

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Im going to keep these next ones brief because I'm beginning to lose steam :)

1 Astor Place

Built in 1883 by Architects Starkweather & Gibbs (they also designed the Potter Building). Brick & Terracotta above Cast-Iron ground floor facade.

Originally it was used as a hotel and boarding house with ground floor stores. The harsh vertical motifs on the exterior caught my eye, and I was drawn in even more by the harmony of the design elements and color choices.

10 Astor Place aka 444 Lafayette St

Built in 1876 by Architect Griffith Thomas to the same owner as the above building, Orlando B. Potter, who seemed to have impeccable taste in architecture.

I love the ornate implementation of the painted white Cast-Iron in the arches and pillar ornaments on this one. As well as the eye-popping contrast of the white paint on dark red brick, kind of a juxtaposed take on themes seen in the building above with the way the red and black elements seem to blend in together in harmony.

21 Astor Place aka Clinton Hall

Built in 1891 by George E. Harney.

Originally a Library for the New York Mercantile Library. I love the classic industrial look its such a strong look while they still tried to give elements of the facade some artistic nuance like in the arched windows and dark banding.

Only Caught the side of this Collonade building but doing more research on it, it's owned by the Blue Man Group????

Built 1831 by Seth Greer and historically home to family member's of the Astor & Vanderbilt families, it is the oldest building I took note of today.

And of course, how could I not be drawn into the Cooper Union Foundation building's charm. It stands seemingly so alone in the heart of Manhattan, close to a modern miracle.

Built in 1859 by Frederick A. Peterson in the (what I'm finding now to be called) Rundbogenstil German neo-Romanesque style.

I didn't realize it at the time but this picture also seems to be the back of the building. Still just such ornate and well-balanced design!

HONORABLE MENTIONS: This house on top of this building and the cute lil mansard moment next to it, which I searched and searched for but I cant seem to remember where it is.

Edit: I found it, there were street signs in the picture whoops. The one with the cottage is 203 E 13th Street also known as Pear Tree Place. And the little guy with the mansard roof is 109 3rd ave, both of them resting above Kiehls 3rd ave.

DISHONORABLE MENTIONS: This NYU Alumni building. Who designed you, they should be ashamed. What is going on with your offset, unbalanced terraces in the back? Awful. What was the point of all of these different colored brick patches?? Uncomfortable, awful. It looks like a neutral-toned Duplo set.

Built in 1986 and I cant even find the architect so you know they weren't very proud of it.

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Bleecker Tower, designed by Stephen Decatur Hatch for the Manhattan Savings Institution in 1891, New York [OC] [2697x3824] [building] via /r/architecture https://ift.tt/3adKs6N

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The Robbins & Appleton Building, New York, NY. Built 1871 by architect Stephen Decatur Hatch in the Second Empire style. [OC] [2654x3677] via /r/ArchitecturePorn https://www.reddit.com/r/ArchitecturePorn/comments/j3g5ro/the_robbins_appleton_building_new_york_ny_built/?utm_source=ifttt

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Zombieland (2009)

Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy |

Zombieland is a American post-apocalyptic zombie comedy film directed by Ruben Fleischer in his theatrical debut and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. The film follows a geeky college kid making his way through the zombie apocalypse, meeting three strangers along the way and together taking an extended road trip across the Southwestern United States in an attempt to find a sanctuary free from zombies.

The film premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 25, 2009, and was theatrically released on October 2, 2009, in the United States by Columbia Pictures. Zombieland was a critical and commercial success, grossing more than $60.8 million in 17 days and surpassing the 2004 film Dawn of the Dead as the top-grossing zombie film in the United States until World War Z in 2013.

Two months have passed since a strain of mad cow disease mutated into “mad person disease” that became “mad zombie disease”, which overran the entire United States, turning many Americans into vicious zombies. Survivors of the zombie epidemic have learned that growing attached to other survivors is not advisable because they could die at any moment, so many have taken to using their city of origin as nicknames.

Unaffected college student Columbus is making his way from his college dorm in Austin, Texas, to Columbus, Ohio, to see whether his parents are still alive. He encounters Tallahassee, another survivor, who is particularly violent in killing zombies. Though he does not appear to be sociable, Tallahassee reluctantly allows Columbus to travel with him. Tallahassee mentions he misses his puppy, “Buck” that was killed by zombies, as well as his affinity for Twinkies, which he actively tries to find…

Director: Ruben Fleischer

Writers: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick

Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin, Amber Heard, Bill Murray, Derek Graf

►Cast:

Jesse Eisenberg…ColumbusWoody Harrelson…TallahasseeEmma Stone…WichitaAbigail Breslin…Little RockAmber Heard…406Bill Murray…Bill MurrayDerek Graf…Clown ZombieCesar Aguirre…Customer at the PumpJacob G. Akins…Banjo ZombieHunter Aldridge…Best ManElle Alexander…Zombie Meter MaidCameron Jacob Alpert…ZombieMichael August…Police Officer ZombieMelanie Booth…Hippie GirlDaniel Burnley…Frightened PedestrianChris Burns…Bicycle ZombieDalton Cole…Bubbie & Pee Paw’s GrandsonBlaise Corrigan…GroomErnest Dancy…Businessman ZombieSydnie Dawson…Princess ZombieBrandon Germaine…Clown ZombieJon Gould…Pedestrian in DecaturTravis Grant…Amusement Park ZombieRobert Hatch…Yuppie ZombieBarry Hopkins…Panicked PedestrianJeh Howell…ZombieErnie Hudson…Winston Zeddemore (archive footage)Amir R. Khan…Point-Blank ZombieChristina Klein…ZombieAmir Kovacs…ZombieSuzanne LaChasse…ZombieGilbert Landras…BusinessmanBrian Luallen…Riot ZombieShaun Michael Lynch…Cardio ZombieLynn McArthur…Girl on Cell PhoneKurt McNew…Amusement Park ZombieJade Moser…Yellow Truck GirlPaul A. Moser…Jeep GuyDarian O’Rear…Birthday PrincessJustin Price…Sprint ZombieStephen Prouty…Punched in Face ZombieMing Qiu…Achilles Business WomanDevin Ray…SchoolboyRhett Reese…Tuxedo Guy with AK-47Tammy Luthi Retzlaff…Woman Attacked by ZombiesApril Rich…Hot MomWilliam Riggs…Mansion ZombieCody Rowlett…Panicked PedestrianAnthony Samples…Bathroom ZombieJoan Schuermeyer…Cynthia KnickerbockerMichelle Sebek…Businesswoman ZombieSteven Stadler…CowboySean Hilton Stephens…Bike GuyBrian Stretch…DC ZombieSonya Thompson…Lunchroom Lady ZombieJessalin Torres…College Student ZombieVictory Van Tuyl…Bubby & Pee Paw’s GranddaughterClay Walker…MechanicSteve Warren…Metro Station ZombieMike White…Victim in BathroomNathan Wright…Rule #1- CardioScott M. Yaffee…Amusement Park ZombieTravis Young…Grocery Store Zombie

Sources: imdb & wikipedia

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💥 Ƀɍɨđǥɇ 💥 • ✍️ “𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙜𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨. 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚. 𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙟𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚.“ • 📍 #facts . 📷 Built in 1907 and located in lower manhattans Tribeca area the Staple street skybridge is a popular NYC tourist site. especially within the photography community. • 💡 Staple Street looks like just a small space between buildings, until you get next to it. In this case the buildings are 171 Duane Street and the the 10-story brick Schepp Building, designed by Stephen Decatur Hatch in 1880 as a factory, warehouse, and office building. • 🔎 The skybridge was built to connect a medical clinic run by New York Hospital at 9 Jay Street to an annex building of them at 67 Hudson Street. #bridge #tribeca #bridges #blackandwhite #instablackandwhite #ny (en Staple Street NYC) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzQJlWmJUrn/?igshid=dpnfkuto6e0m

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“Located at Broadway and East 29th, Gilsey House was designed by Stephen Decatur Hatch for Peter Gilsey, a Danish immigrant merchant and city alderman. The 8-story hotel featuring around 300 rooms was constructed from 1869 to 1871 and opened in 1872. The hotel was luxurious with rosewood and walnut finishing in the rooms, marble fireplace mantles, and bronze chandeliers. And, it was the first #NYC hotel to offer telephones to guests. Famous guests included Diamond Jim Brady and Oscar Wilde, and Mark Twain. Gilsey House closed in 1911 after legal conflict beginning in 1904 between the operator of the hotel, Seaboard Hotel Company, and the Gilsey estate over the terms of the lease. Parts of the facade, such as some cast-iron columns, which went over the property line were removed, and the building deteriorated. In 1925, plans were filed to rebuild the structure as an ordinary loft building, but were never carried out. It was purchased in 1980 by Richard Berry and F. Anthony Zunino and converted into co-operative apartments with a restore of the cast-iron facade. The building, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and designated a New York City landmark in 1979.”

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The Robbins & Appleton Building, New York, NY. Built 1871 by architect Stephen Decatur Hatch in the Second Empire style. [OC] [building] via /r/architecture https://ift.tt/2HJpl0E