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  Row Houses

• 9 WEST 29th STREET
  Architect: John B. Snook & Sons
  Date: 1900 (front added to an 1857 row house)
  Style: Cast-iron Fronted Neo-Renaissance
  Features: Classical Egg and Dart Cornice with Doric columns adorned with Corinthian capitals framing the windows
  
• 11 WEST 29th STREET
  Architect: Undetermined
  Date: 1859 (storefront altered in 1900 by John B. Snook)
  Style: Italianate Row House
  Famous for:  The first home of the American Geographical Society
  
• 13-15 WEST 29th STREET
  Architect: undetermined
  Date: 1859 (storefronts altered in 1900 by John B. Snook)
  Style: Italianate Row House
  Famous for:  Serving in 1920s as the headquarters for the Woodcraft League of America, predecessor and inspiration for the British Boy Scouts organization
  

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

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