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Title: A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC Real Estate Record Association Union League Club (New York, N.Y.), former owner. NNC
Subjects: Real estate business Building Architecture
Publisher: New York : Record and guide
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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opper can point to such structures as the Immigrant industrialSavings Bank, the ixoch I.uilding, the .Academy of the Sacred 1 leart,the Montefiore Home,St. Alichaebs Ejiiscopal Church, the 8th Regi-ment AruK.iry, and the ;)ower house for the Third .\\enue (ableRailroad Com))an\-, at Kingsliridge, the latter costing a half milliondollars. For the Childrens .\id Societx, Mr. Hoi)))er was secured tobuild four schools which are located at Xo. 215 East 2ist street. X^o.410 I-ast 71st street, 11th avenue and West 53d street, and at Xo.219 Sullivan street. In modern office buildings he has comi)leted thestructure on the site of the old Xew ^ork Hotel, known as theCommercial buildings and the .^piiigler lUiilding in West InionScjuare, near 14th street. 1 here can be but brief mention made of thework involved in the new Third .\venue Uridge, which Mr. Hopperis now completing : suffice to say that the work w ill stand as a monu-ment of the skill and thoroughness with which it was completed when
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BUILDIXG AND ARCHITECTURE IN NEW YORK. with the march of progress the aspect of the whole vicinity willhave been changed. Mr. Hopper has erected the famous Carnegie Music Hall in 57thstreet and 7th avenue, and the recent additions which have l)eenmade. Among hotels and apartment houses there are the ManeAntoinette, at 66th street and the Boulevard; tlie Xormandie, ai ^Stiistreet and I.roadway: the Portsmouth, in \\est yth street, and theHampshire, in the same street. In Trinity Cemetery, mausoleums in-volving the liigliot cla>s of masonry liave been erected by Mr.Hopper for a large nunil)(, r of W-w \orks old and wealth) families.His address is Xo. \\\-t 125th >treet. John J. Hopper. Heavv, solid masonrx and the constructirju of projjcr beds andfoundations (m w hich large structures are erected has longbeen the lugliest form of masonry. Since :he earl\- da)s in theworlds histor\ when labor counted for nothing and kings ami gov-ernments erected tcm))les and ))ul)lic l)uildings ma

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