In the Land of Giants
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1015 Park Ave., Manhattan, NYC, NY.
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✎ The Lewis Gouverneur and Nathalie Bailey Morris House is a historic five-story dark red brick house built in 1913-14 as a private residence for Lewis Gouverneur Morris, a financier and descendent of Gouverneur Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The building was later also called the New World Foundation Building. The house was made a New York City Designated Landmark on January 24, 1967, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. Its façade was restored by the Avi Chai Foundation in 2000.

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Fizgig October 04, 2017, 05:04 AM
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Sonja October 04, 2017, 01:05 PM
Thats cute in there, although in a smal town I am convinced it would look like a rather sizable building! How did it manage to survive between the skyscrapers?
Fizgig October 04, 2017, 04:52 PM
Sonja.... Your question prompted me to research the building more doggedly -- when initially photographed and shared, I wasn't able to find much info. on it all that quickly & then forgot to go back and try again. So, I think the added info. tells you why this big house managed to survive among all the larger apt. buildings around it --- it's a NYC landmark and,with that designation, can't be touched by developers.
Sonja October 05, 2017, 12:16 PM
Gouverneur as middlename for the gouverneurs descendant? Now that is really a fun bit of american history. And it survived rather long all without special protection -- almost to the day of my own birth!
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