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Graham Court Apartment House, Harlem, 1925

Posted on 01/09/2014 by Cass — Leave a reply

Graham Court is a historic Harlem apartment building. It was commissioned by William Waldorf Astor, designed by the architects Clinton and Russell, and constructed in 1899-1901 as part of the great Harlem real-estate boom. Continue Reading →

Astor Row in Harlem

Posted on 11/04/2008 by Cass — 2 Comments ↓

Astor Row is the name given to 130th Street between Fifth Avenue and Lenox Avenue in Harlem, in the New York.More specifically, it refers to the semi-attached row houses on the south side of the street. These were among the first speculative townhouses built in Harlem, and their design is very unusual. Continue Reading →

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