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Description: Identifier: newyorkoftoday00durs (find matches) Title: New York of to-day. Year: 1912 (1910s) Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC Subjects: Publisher: Portland, Me. : L. H. Nelson co. Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ' Text Appearing After Image: U. S. CUSTOM HOUSE, Bowling Green, foot of Broadway. Occupies an entire block, and was completed in 1907 at a cost of $7,200,000. This beautifulstructure is the finest customs building in the world. Doric colonnades give a superb air of stateliness to the walls, and the cornice is embellished with statuesemblematic of the great commercial nations. Larger groups representing the continents, America, Europe. Africa, and Asia, by Daniel C. French, flank eitherside of the main entrance. A cartouche emblematic of the American Nation, by Carl Bitter, is the crowning feature of the facade. Cass Gilbert, Architect. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: US Customs House New York of to-day. (1912) (14782617492)
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