AIA Guide to New York City by Leadon Fran & Willensky Elliot & White Norval

Author:Leadon, Fran & Willensky, Elliot & White, Norval [Leadon, Fran]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-05-28T16:00:00+00:00

[H35] 129 Joralemon Street , bet. Henry and Clinton Sts. N side. ca. 1891. C.P.H. Gilbert.

A grandly scaled outpost of the Chicago School in Roman brick, sadly squeezed between a banal apartment building and a law office with pretensions, but inappropriate scale.

Turn right on Clinton Street:

[H36] Packer Collegiate Institute , 170 Joralemon St., bet. Court and Clinton Sts. S side. 1853-1856. Minard Lafever . Additions, 1884, 1886, Napoleon Le Brun & Son . Gym, 1957.

A parody of a British Victorian business-man’s Gothick castle. The understated addition tries to remain a background neighbor. Collegiate only in the sense that it prepares students for college, not a college itself.

[H37] Packer Collegiate Institute Middle School /originally St. Ann’s Church (Episcopal), Clinton St., NE cor. Livingston St. Chapel, 1866-1867. Church, 1867-1869, Renwick & Sands. Renovation and addition, 2003, Hugh Hardy of H3 Collaboration Architecture .

Brownstone and terra cotta of different colors and textures make an exuberant and unrestrained extravaganza. Renwick had produced more academically correct Gothic Revival churches at Manhattan’s Grace and St. Patrick’s —perhaps by the time of St. Ann’s his confidence had mushroomed. The copybooks of the Pugins used at Grace were discarded in favor of current architectural events, particularly the “new” museum at Oxford by Deane & Woodward, designed and built with the eager assistance of theorist John Ruskin —hence “Ruskinian Gothic.”

Hugh Hardy’s middle school is a building within a building, a free-standing modernist glass-and-steel Jonah inserted into the belly of St. Ann’s. Hardy’s beautifully detailed, light-filled atrium (visible from Livingston Street) emerges from the rear of the church and links Packer’s three disparate buildings.

[H38] 140-142 Clinton Street , bet. Joralemon St. and Aitken Place. W side. ca. 1855.

Lintels and a cornice lush with volutes and garlands, both in cast iron. The detail and profiles survived well in comparison with those carved in erodible brownstone. It looks as if its many eyebrows were surveying St. Ann’s Church across the street.

[H39] 168-170 State Street , bet. Clinton and Court Sts. S side. ca. 1890.

Robust twin tenements with handsome bay windows from a time when architecture for the lower-income population was still architecture. The swooping cornice is phenomenal: beautifully restored with an ornate vine motif.

[H40] 174 State Street , bet. Clinton and Court Sts. S side. ca. 1838.

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