3431 x 5146 px | 29 x 43,6 cm | 11,4 x 17,2 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
7. Januar 2016
Ort:
4101 White Plains Rd., Wakefield, Bronx, New York, U.S.A.
Weitere Informationen:
The Town Hall was built in 1902 to house local government offices, among them the 79th Precinct Police Station. The 47th Precinct (whose name appears in the frieze over the main entrance) was here from 1926 until 1972. Henry D. Whitfield (1876-1949) and Beverly S. King (1879-1935) formed a partnership in the 1890s. Their earliest known design was the octagonal shingle-style parish house at the Flatbush Congregational Church in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. But they seem to have favored the neo-Federal style employed in the Wakefield Town Hall and Andrew Carnegie's automobile garage (1904) on E. 90th St. in Manhattan. Their most famous New York effort is the Engineers' Club (1907) on W. 40th St. on Bryant Park. Together and later separately or with different partners, they designed many important buildings through the 1920s and '30s.
