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The 26-story River House was constructed in 1931 on the site of a former cigar factory and designed by William Lawrence Bottomley in the Art Deco style. [3] [4] [5] Designed for cooperative ownership, the building featured 78 apartments with 12 rooms, 6 baths, and two fireplaces. [6]
River House may refer to: Bronx River Houses, a public housing complex in New York; Fox River House, a hotel in Aurora, Illinois; Harlem River Houses, a public housing complex in New York; Las Olas River House, an apartment building in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; River House Condominiums, an apartment building in Grand Rapids, Michigan
The project was proposed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1944, [1] and largely served an African American population, [2] in contrast to Met Life's Parkchester in the Bronx (1940), Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan, Park La Brea in Los Angeles, Parkmerced in San Francisco, and Parkfairfax in Alexandria, Virginia, which were restricted to a whites-only tenancy at ...
Artist Richmond Barthé's had a public commission from the New York City's Federal Art Project for an 80-foot bas-relief in cast stone, (1939), created for the embellishment of the Harlem River Houses complex, [15] but upon completion, his work was installed at the Kingsborough Houses in Brooklyn.
History of New York City; Lenape and New Netherland, to 1664 New Amsterdam British and Revolution, 1665–1783 Federal and early American, 1784–1854 Tammany and Consolidation, 1855–1897 (Civil War, 1861–1865) Early 20th century, 1898–1945 Post–World War II, 1946–1977 Modern and post-9/11, 1978–present: See also
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-195-11634-8. Eldredge, Niles and Horenstein, Sidney (2014). Concrete Jungle: New York City and Our Last Best Hope for a Sustainable Future. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-27015-2. Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (1995).
The Isaac L. Rice Mansion is at 346 West 89th Street, at the southeast corner of Riverside Drive and 89th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. [3] [4] The house occupies an irregular plot with frontage of 148 feet (45 m) wide on 89th Street to the north and 116 feet (35 m) on Riverside Drive to the west; the plot extends 100 feet (30 m) back from 89th Street.
Bronx River Houses is a low-income public housing project in the Soundview section of the Bronx, New York City.It consists of nine buildings with 1,260 apartments. Completed February 28, 1951, the 13.94-acre (5.64 ha) Bronx development is bordered by East 174th Street, Harrod, and Bronx River Avenues.