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Maxwell's Plum was a bar at 1181 First Avenue, at the intersection with 64th Street, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. A 1988 New York Times article described it as a "flamboyant restaurant and singles bar that, more than any place of its kind, symbolized two social revolutions of the 1960s – sex and food". [1]
This policy was in effect for decades: about 30,000 people visited the church in the 1960s. Although the doors are not still open around the clock, the stained-glass windows are illuminated at night. [7]: 145–146 [8] In 2020, it reported 204 members, average attendance of 120, and $413,348 in plate and pledge income.
Above these stained-glass windows are three recessed, arched windows that are topped by a pediment containing a circular window. [ 134 ] [ 147 ] The eastern facade also has five groupings of windows facing the nave [ 49 ] [ 151 ] but much of this facade is obscured by McGiffert Hall, which faces directly onto Claremont Avenue and 122nd Street.
When the dazzling 16-foot-high leaded stained- glass window arrived in Canton in 1913, it made front-page news—and postponed the new church’s dedication by a week because of a shipping delay.
Pieces of the sculptures had fallen onto the street, and, in one case, a stained-glass pane fell out of the courtroom's ceiling dome during a trial. [145] The interior of the courthouse was designated a New York City landmark in 1981, [ 5 ] [ 4 ] and the entire building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [ 1 ]
Povey Brothers Studio, also known as Povey Brothers Art Glass Works or Povey Bros. Glass Co., was an American producer of stained glass windows based in Portland, Oregon. The studio was active from 1888 to 1928. [ 1 ]
The trim was painted in a cream color, and the pressed metal trim on the towers was painted with other colors to complement the stained glass windows. [5] The home was sold again in 2001 and later fell into foreclosure. In 2011 a new owner purchased the home with an eye toward restoring the house to a single family home.
The Marble Collegiate Church, founded in 1628, is one of the oldest continuous Protestant congregations in North America.The congregation, which is part of two denominations in the Reformed tradition—the United Church of Christ and the Reformed Church in America—is located at 272 Fifth Avenue at the corner of West 29th Street in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.