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Re: Gotham and Empire - what don't we know?
From:
Emily Leonard <[log in to unmask]>
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>I, too, am impressed by the skillful synthesis of Burrows' -Wallace's new book
>Gotham.  With all the scholarly advances of the last 20 years - I wonder what
>those authors - and New York [State] historians in general - think are the
>most important unanswered questions.
>
>For my particular area of closest interest - the real estate history of New
>York City - I can think of several topics:
>
>1.      How were the "wide streets" (34th, 42nd, 72nd, 86th, etc.) chosen
>on the
>1811 plan?
>
>2.      Which developers & architects adapted to the shift from rowhouse
>construction to apartment construction at the turn of the century - and which
>did not?
>
>3.      Most of the tenants in the big, new turn of the century apartment
>houses
>were not coming from private houses, but from other apartment buildings - and
>the suburbs.  What is the real story of the migration to luxury apartment
>buildings?
>
>4.   How did the lower heating loads of fluorescent lighting (1930's?) change
>office building design?
>
>And, my personal quandary - where was Henry Clay Frick's garage (in NYC)?
>
>Christopher Gray
>New York City

Here's another possible approach:

If someone knows the name of Henry Frick's coachman or chauffer (might be
in his will), locating that person in the 1900 census or a 1914 city
directory would probably give you the stable/garage location. Most
coachman's families lifed above or adjacent to the stable. This probably
true of chauffers as well

Emily Leonard

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