COLLECTION NAME:
The Landmarks Preservation Commission Designation Photo Collection
Record
Landmark Name:
Dorrance Brooks Square Historic District
LP Number:
LP-02651
Landmark Type:
Historic District
Designation Date:
6/15/2021
Image Type:
Designation Photos
Image Date:
6/15/2021
Image Description:
ES (Even)
Address:
90 Edgecombe Avenue (aka 90-96 Edgecombe Avenue)
BIN:
1060681
BBL:
1020410068
Borough:
Manhattan
Block:
2041
Lot:
68
Architect or Builder:
Gronenberg & Leuchtag
Date of Construction:
1915
Owner or Developer:
14th Street and 7th Ave Construction Company
Style Primary:
Arts & Crafts
Style Secondary:
Viennese Secession
Material Primary:
Glazed Brick
Material Secondary:
Stone
Material Tertiary:
Terra Cotta
Use Original:
Residential, multi-family
Building Type:
Apartment Building
Notes:
Walter F. White, Civil Rights activist and president of the NAACP from 1929 to 1955, lived here in the 1920s; Julius Lorenzo Bledsoe, actor and singer, and the first African American to perform with an American opera company lived here in the 1930s-1940s
File Name:
LP2651_1056_2021-06-15_90EdgecombeAve.JPG
Dorrance Brooks Square Historic District
