170 East 73rd Street Carriage House
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The 170 East 73rd Street Carriage House sits on a block of the Upper East Side that once housed carriage houses for wealthy residents, with facades still reflecting that origin. Built in a Renaissance Revival style, it stands among houses designed by architects including Richard Morris Hunt and Charles Romeyn, on a block later owned by figures such as Joseph Pulitzer. The buildings were eventually converted for automotive use, and some later became purely residential.
the building
A carriage house facade. The Renaissance Revival facade still reads as a carriage house, part of a block of small rowhouses built from the mid-19th to early 20th centuries for the horses and vehicles of Upper East Side households.
the style
The Renaissance Revival detailing marks the building as part of a wave of carriage houses built for wealthy patrons, later converted for automobiles as the era of horse-drawn transport ended.
More on Renaissance Revivalsignificance
Individually designated a New York City Landmark on 5/13/1980 (among landmark numbers including LP-01067 through LP-01071 and LP-01229), and added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the East 73rd Street Historic District.
nearby
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- Saint Jean Baptiste Church
- Temple Israel of the City of New York
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