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    Landmarks Designates the National Society of Colonial Dames in New York Headquarters as Individual Landmark

    Landmark designation  •  Yorkville, Manhattan

    The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York Headquarters at 215 East 71st Street in Manhattan. Image Credit: LPC.

    Although the original landmarking proposal also included an application to designate the Headquarter’s interiors, the Colonial Dames Society withdrew their support for that application. On June 11, 2019, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to designate the Headquarters of the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York as an individual landmark. The four-story Headquarters building is located at 215 East 71st Street in Manhattan, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues. The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York commissioned Richard Henry Dana Jr. to design the building in 1928 to serve as the Society’s headquarters and a house museum displaying colonial residential architecture and interior design. Dana, a specialist in colonial revival architecture, designed the Headquarters in the Georgian Revival style, using as inspiration a variety of colonial homes along the eastern seaboard, with the 1750 Colonel John McEver House as his primary reference. (read more…)

    Tags : 215 East 71st Street, Colonial Era, Georgian Revival Style, individual City landmark, Landmark Designation, Richard Henry Dana, The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York
    Date:06/13/2019
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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