Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- DeLemos & Cordes
- Extent:
- 3 items
- Language:
- English .
Background
- Scope and Content:
August Trenkmann purchased the lots located between Centre, Broome and Lafayette Streets (originally Elm Street) in New York City at different times during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Trenkmann constructed buildings on five of the seven lots. This small collection represents two of those buildings, both designed by DeLemos & Cordes, Architects. For the 7-story factory building at Nos. 247-249 Centre Street and 167-171 Elm Street, the collection consists of Specifications of the Iron Work and Materials (1890). For the 7-story office building on the southwest corner of Broome and Centre Streets (403 Broome Street), the collection includes Specification for the Steam Power, Heating and Ventilating Apparatus and Article of Agreement between Trenkmann and Jackson Architectural Iron Works (1895).
- Acquisition information:
- Accession number--1000.111.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed Terms
- Subjects:
- Architecture -- New York (State) -- New York
Architectural ironwork -- New York (State) -- New York
Ironwork -- New York (State) -- New York
Office buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
Factories -- New York (State) -- New York - Places:
- SoHo (New York, N.Y.) -- History
SoHo (New York, N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Access
- RESTRICTIONS:
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This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
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300 Avery Hall1172 Amsterdam Avenue M.C. 0301New York, NY 10027, United States
- CONTACT:
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212) 854-6199avery@library.columbia.edu