Top of the Siegel-Cooper Building
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 616-632 Sixth Ave., Manhattan, NYC, NY. Full spectrum grayscale + infrared photos merged with proprietary texture layer.... ✎ Siegel-Cooper began as a discount department store founded by Henry Siegel, Frank H. Cooper and Isaac Keim in 1887. In September 1896, the company opened a store in New York City -- a huge emporium in the Ladies' Mile Shopping District. Their steel-framed building, the first department store in New York to be so constructed, was the largest store in the world at the time, and was designed in Beaux-Arts style by DeLemos & Cordes. The six-story Siegel-Cooper store was built between 1895 & 1897 and expanded in 1899. Siegel-Cooper declared bankruptcy in 1915 and the New York store closed in 1917 --- becoming a military hospital during World War II and then a warehouse. After decades of miscellaneous use the building became one of the first of the great dry-goods emporia in the Ladies' Mile to be renovated and re-opened for retail use -- Bed, Bath & Beyond, T.J. Maxx and Marshall's currently. ◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇ Appreciate your comments. Thank you =) ◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇ |
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