A few nice real estate commission images I found:
NYC: Carnegie Hall
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Carnegie Hall, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, was built by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and today is one of the most reknown classical and popular music venues in the country. Originally intended as a venue for the Oratorio Society of New York and the New York Symphony Society, on whose boards Carnegie served. Although the building was in use from April 1891, the official opening night was on May 5, with a concert conducted by maestro Walter Damrosch and composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Originally known simply as "Music Hall", it was renamed Carnegie Hall in 1893.
Carnegie Hall contains three distinct, separate concert halls: the 2,804-seat, five-level Main Hall, which was named for violinist Isaac Stern in 1997; the 599-seat Recital Hall, or Zankel Hall, formerly known as the Carnegie Lyceum; and the 268-seat Chamber Music Hall, or Weill Recital Hall.
Designed in Italian Renaissance style by William Tuthill with construction carried out by Isaac A. Hopper and Company, it is one of the last large buildings in New York made built entirely of masonry, without a steel frame. The exterior is rendered in narrow Roman bricks of a mellow ochre hue, with details in terracotta and brownstone. The foyer avoids contemporary Baroque theatrics with a high-minded exercise in the Florentine Renaissance manner of Filippo Brunelleschi's Pazzi Chapel: white plaster and gray stone form a harmonious system of round-headed arched openings and Corinthian pilasters that support an unbroken cornice, with round-headed lunettes above it, under a vaulted ceiling. The famous white and gold interior is similarly restrained.
The hall was owned by the Carnegie family until 1925, when Carnegie's widow sold it to real estate developer, Robert E. Simon. When Simon died in 1935, his son, Robert E. Simon Jr. took over. By 1960, with the New York Philharmonic on the move to Lincoln Center, the building was slated for demolition to make way for a commercial skyscraper. Under pressure from a group led by violinist Isaac Stern and many of the artist residents, special legislation was passed that allowed the city of New York to buy the site from Simon for million, and in May of 1960 the nonprofit Carnegie Hall Corporation was created to run the venue. Carnegie Hall was extensively renovated in 1983 and 2003 by James Polshek.
Carnegie Hall was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1967.
National Register #66000535 (1966)
NYC: Carnegie Hall
Image by wallyg
Carnegie Hall, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, was built by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and today is one of the most reknown classical and popular music venues in the country. Originally intended as a venue for the Oratorio Society of New York and the New York Symphony Society, on whose boards Carnegie served. Although the building was in use from April 1891, the official opening night was on May 5, with a concert conducted by maestro Walter Damrosch and composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Originally known simply as "Music Hall", it was renamed Carnegie Hall in 1893.
Carnegie Hall contains three distinct, separate concert halls: the 2,804-seat, five-level Main Hall, which was named for violinist Isaac Stern in 1997; the 599-seat Recital Hall, or Zankel Hall, formerly known as the Carnegie Lyceum; and the 268-seat Chamber Music Hall, or Weill Recital Hall.
Designed in Italian Renaissance style by William Tuthill with construction carried out by Isaac A. Hopper and Company, it is one of the last large buildings in New York made built entirely of masonry, without a steel frame. The exterior is rendered in narrow Roman bricks of a mellow ochre hue, with details in terracotta and brownstone. The foyer avoids contemporary Baroque theatrics with a high-minded exercise in the Florentine Renaissance manner of Filippo Brunelleschi's Pazzi Chapel: white plaster and gray stone form a harmonious system of round-headed arched openings and Corinthian pilasters that support an unbroken cornice, with round-headed lunettes above it, under a vaulted ceiling. The famous white and gold interior is similarly restrained.
The hall was owned by the Carnegie family until 1925, when Carnegie's widow sold it to real estate developer, Robert E. Simon. When Simon died in 1935, his son, Robert E. Simon Jr. took over. By 1960, with the New York Philharmonic on the move to Lincoln Center, the building was slated for demolition to make way for a commercial skyscraper. Under pressure from a group led by violinist Isaac Stern and many of the artist residents, special legislation was passed that allowed the city of New York to buy the site from Simon for million, and in May of 1960 the nonprofit Carnegie Hall Corporation was created to run the venue. Carnegie Hall was extensively renovated in 1983 and 2003 by James Polshek.
Carnegie Hall was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1967.
National Register #66000535 (1966)
