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At its most rewarding, the column, ostensibly about buildings, was about people.
By Christopher Gray
Major objections did not prevent a giant building from obscuring a familiar view.
The Eastern fascination for the American West was reflected in building names.
The Duveen Brothers gallery at Fifth Avenue and 56th Street was one of the most sumptuous structures ever built in New York.
A building reminiscent of an Italian campanile, the former headquarters of the Times, once presided over Times Square.
The inside-out tenement, with residential entrances moved to the back and stores inserted at the ground level, was born of economic necessity.
Henry Frick’s house has been altered before. But a new plan is meeting with howls.
Milton A. Kent’s solution to a car-clogged city has been revisited by today’s developers.
Determined preservationists saved the 1877 Jefferson Market Courthouse from demolition before there was a landmarks law.
The Mail & Express Building, built in 1892, was not the tallest, biggest or first skyscraper, but it was certainly the lightest, the most refined.
