We did a story featuring the canine motifs on the corner building 0f 199 Lenox at the west side of 120th Street but there was another detail that most would not remember. The top photo from 1920 shows the corner building with its original cupola dome on the top of that same corner townhouse. One can only imagine what that small space would have been like to settle into and the views of Harlem that must have been pretty distinct from that vantage point. Today, the building in the Mount Morris Park Historic District is in habitable shape but maybe one day someone will restore it with the additional space overhead.
Archival photo courtesy of NYPL. Current photo by Ulysses. Read more in our past post:
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We did a story featuring the canine motifs on the corner building 0f 199 Lenox at the west side of 120th Street but there was another detail that most would not remember. The top photo from 1920 shows the corner building with its original cupola dome on the top of that same corner townhouse. One can only imagine what that small space would have been like to settle into and the views of Harlem that must have been pretty distinct from that vantage point. Today, the building in the Mount Morris Park Historic District is in habitable shape but maybe one day someone will restore it with the additional space overhead. Archival photo courtesy of NYPL. Current photo by Ulysses. Read more in our past post: LINK
So damn cool. I wonder if the corner building at 119th street also had a cupola. These two buildings don't mirror each other but strongly echo. Thanks for the photo.
ReplyDeleteSO damn cool!
What a wonderful find of a photo! Notice that the building next door (painted white at the bottom) has also lost something at the top. I've always loved that particular 1 block between 119th/120th on the West side. Love the old car out front!
ReplyDeleteWho would have thought that this building had such a wonderful addition on top.
ReplyDeleteAlso see that those two buildings on Lenox had their stoops joined together, a very elegant entrance to the buildings. I wonder why that part was destroyed.
Wanted to looked it up to see if there was information when the cupola dome disappeared. Found that in 1923 the building was judged unsafe by the Buildings Dept. Fire?, Struck by lighting?
ReplyDeleteInteresting. Thanks OT. Entire building unsafe?
ReplyDeleteThe building is lovely without it but what a crowning jewel!