Talk:Colonnade Row

Article issues
Still working on this, but taking a break. I want to find more about the buildings in the early 1900s, the destruction of 5, the attempt to move to Bryant Park... I know the landmarks documents are primary sources but I think they're good for the detail they provide. I've never written on a building before that isn't a museum so I'm not sure what needs to be added. There are some gorgeous but unfortunately, I think unusable images here. I'm going to be down there on Friday and will take the camera to see what I can get. TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 16:36, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

These row houses did not contain 26 rooms each, as the article currently states. Given their original dimensions---27 feet wide, 40 feet deep, they followed the universal townhouse plan of early Victorian architecture: each floor had two rooms and a hall, making a total of 6 rooms on 3 floors. I checked the sited references and there is no mention of the number of rooms. Also, given the dimensions, to hold 26 rooms, each room would have to be closet-sized.Lorzu (talk) 09:42, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

Photo
I just added a quick picture I took with my phone the other day when I was nearby. I don't know the regulations on copyright. I think there isn't one because it's a sign but erring on the side of caution, it's here and not at commons. I want to get a better picture when I'm there with my camera. TCari My travels 01:44, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

It would appear that a wealthy New York banker, Luther Kountze, who had a summer estate in Morristown, New Jersey, acquired the marble columns and other structural and decorative elements of the row houses at 418 to 426 Lafayette Place when they were razed in 1901. Kountze's estate is now home to Delbarton Academy, a Benedictine boys preparatory school. In 2009, when the school was clearing some wooded grounds to make way for a new facility, these remains were discovered. As the school had sold land on which the remains had been left to Morris County for preservation purposes, the County agreed to allow the school to remove these artifacts. They have been stored in a faculty parking lot on the campus, awaiting a decision about what will be done with them. It appears that Mr. Kountze acquired these elements with some intention of using them in construction that was never begun. The school, which had previously sold some of Kountze's marble statuary to the Metropolitan Museum of Art is said to be considering a possible sale of these elements to the museum.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37531245@N08/sets/72157624097817436/ Robert Klurfield (talk) 03:37, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.248.176.46 (talk) 03:30, 17 May 2010 (UTC)