Save Bancroft Building

Bancroft Building

Architect: Robert H. Robertson
Built: 1897
Style: Ruskinian
Features:

– Complex Polychromy

– Highly Inventive Stacked Classical Orders

– Richly Detailed Finials, Capitals, Columns, and String Courses

           – The beauty and invention in the polychromatic voussoirs and
              quoining details, and the variation in the stacked "orders" on
              each vertical layer are particularly exemplary

Famous for:

           – Housing Alfred Stieglitz’s renowned "Camera Club" which
              transformed the acceptance of photography from a
              journalistic medium to fine art
           – The Club was located directly in the Bancroft building and
              included a library, darkroom, equipment, and was the
              location from which the group published their famous
              newsletter, Camera Notes

LETTERS OF SUPPORT(download)

HELP SAVE THESE BUILDINGS!

WRITE TO:

Honorable Robert Tierney,
Chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission,
and tell him to make it a priority to landmark the Bancroft Building at
3-7 West 29th Street and the row houses from
9-15 West 29th Street at: info@lpc.nyc.gov

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Photograph Credit: Noe DeWitt