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By the 1800s, most new fireplaces were made up of two parts, the surround and the insert. The surround consisted of the mantelpiece and side supports, usually in wood, marble or granite. The insert was where the fire burned, and was constructed of cast iron often backed with decorative tiles.
The New York Historical (known as the New-York Historical Society from 1804–2024) is an American history museum and library on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The society was founded in 1804 as New York's first museum. It presents exhibitions, public programs, and research that explore the history of New York and the nation.
New York State Constitution written and signed here Conference House: Tottenville, Staten Island: 1680 Listed as a National Historic Landmark Timothy Knapp House: Rye: 1680 Listed on National Register of Historic Places Van Nostrand-Starkins House: Roslyn: 1680 [3] Main Street Historic District (Roslyn, New York) Chichester's Inn: West Hills ...
This list of museums in New York is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The New York State Museum was founded in 1836 as the New York State Geological and Natural History Survey, formed in 1836 by Governor William Marcy to document the mineral wealth of the state. [2] In 1870, it was reorganized as the New York State Museum of Natural History under the trusteeship of the regents of the State University. [ 3 ]
The history center bought the 52,000-square-foot building in 2015 and began fundraising and planning in 2017. Then the pandemic hit, delaying the project and increasing its cost.
A Franklin stove. The Franklin stove is a metal-lined fireplace named after Benjamin Franklin, who invented it in 1742. [1] It had a hollow baffle near the rear (to transfer more heat from the fire to a room's air) and relied on an "inverted siphon" to draw the fire's hot fumes around the baffle. [2]
The 1946 film Gas House Kids features children from New York's Gas House District taking on a gang, and spawned two sequels. Ewan McColl's 1968 song "Dirty Old Town" (about his home town of Salford) famously begins "Found my love by the gaswork croft…" (in cover versions often "I met my love by the gasworks wall…") [3]