. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . S VANDERBLLTS RESIDENCE. 5TH AVENUE AND 57TU STREJiT. Street. It is three hundred feet long- and one hundred and twenty-five wide,and contains accommodation for fifteen hundred pupils. The present New York Hospital is located on Fifteenth Street, betweenFifth and Sixth Avenues, and was opened in 1876. It forms a most strikingerection, six stories high, with a large projecting portion in the center, and aprominent high pitched roof. The whole building is admirably conceived to OU
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . S VANDERBLLTS RESIDENCE. 5TH AVENUE AND 57TU STREJiT. Street. It is three hundred feet long- and one hundred and twenty-five wide,and contains accommodation for fifteen hundred pupils. The present New York Hospital is located on Fifteenth Street, betweenFifth and Sixth Avenues, and was opened in 1876. It forms a most strikingerection, six stories high, with a large projecting portion in the center, and aprominent high pitched roof. The whole building is admirably conceived to OUR F 1 K K .M K X admil light, air and sunshint\ and the ventilation and heating of the buildingan as nearly perfecl as may be. Twenty large windows are placed on each ofthe upper Boors, withoul counting1 those in the central projection. Theapproach to t he building is t hrough t he main ent ranee hall in t he center, w Inchis one of an imposing size and appearance. Perhaps the nmst marked feature of the new architecture, as compared totheold, isin t he erection of the apartment houses throughout thecdy. Broadly. HOUSE OF MR. WILLIAM K. VANDKKBILT 5TH AVENUE AND 31ST STREET. ^peaking, they may he said to have heen erected on about the same is generally a large main entrance-hall, with a courtyard at the back,which, in the better class of them, is covered in with -lass. This description of bouse is rented otf in suites of apartments, and the rentspaid are often extremely high, being not unfrequently placed at auction, theybecome so valuable. The Osborne Flats, illustrated on another page, is a 1112 I O I. It F 1 It K M K N. typical example of a building of iliis character. The building is twelve; storieshigh, and ranks among the highest of its class in the world. Among others of these remarkable structures, which so characterize theresidential pari of the city, are the Spanish Flats, located in a fine positionopposite Central Park on Fifty-ninth Street and Seventh Ave
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