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The Astor Street District is a historic district in Central Chicago, Illinois. Constructed over a period of more than 100 years, the buildings along Astor Street reflect the fashionable styles favored by their original high-society residents.
Wooden Alley is a historic wood block paved alley connecting Astor Street and State Street in the Near North Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.The alley is 530 feet (160 m) long and composed of wooden blocks roughly 6 to 10 inches (150 to 250 mm) long and 4 inches (100 mm) wide.
The Charnley Residence is located in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood at the southeast corner of North Astor Street and East Schiller Street. It is three stories in height, with a raised basement of stone and 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 stories of largely austere Roman brick masonry. The façade is divided vertically into three parts, the center portion ...
The Astor family achieved prominence in business, society, and politics in the United States and the United Kingdom during the 19th and 20th centuries. With German roots, some of their ancestry goes back to the Italian and Swiss Alps, [1] the Astors settled in Germany, first appearing in North America in the 18th century with John Jacob Astor, one of the wealthiest people in history.
The Astor is a building at 235 West 75th Street, on Broadway between 75th and 76th Streets, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. William Waldorf Astor hired architects Clinton and Russell to design the two southern towers of The Astor in 1901.
The Astor Row townhouses rented originally for $1,100 per year and were so popular that for years there was a waiting list for them. The townhouses were occupied originally by whites, but in 1920, 20 of the 28 houses – the 10 owned by New York Savings Bank, plus 10 still owned by the Astors – were purchased by James Cruikshank, a real ...
The Astor Place Riot occurred on May 10, 1849, at the now-demolished Astor Opera House [1] in Manhattan and left between 22 and 31 rioters dead, and more than 120 people injured. [2] It was the deadliest to that date of a number of civic disturbances in Manhattan, which generally pitted immigrants and nativists against each other, or together ...
Nevertheless, it was the deadly infamous Astor Place riot, only a year and a half after opening on May 10, 1849 which caused the theatre to close permanently – provoked by competing performances of Macbeth by English actor William Charles Macready (1793–1873), at the Opera House (which was then operating under the name "Astor Place Theatre ...