#architecture_small-scale – Walk with Me, Too

Rows

A row of rowhouses that are this intact is a rare sighting. This one is particularly nice.

Rows in a variety of configurations on the UES, many of them disrupted by renovation.

You’re the top

I am delighted by these flourishes at the top of buildings. I confirmed that these peaks are called finials, as I am proud to say, I suspected.

Wood-frame buildings were banned as fire hazards sometime before the turn of the century (the one that went from 18 to 1900).

The one near the corner of York and 78th is a survivor from the 1880s, I believe. Not many are extant, but I recall passing one in the East 90s as well.

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