Father Pitt

Why should the beautiful die?


Grant Building from First Avenue

Grant Building

When Henry Hornbostel’s Grant Building first went up in 1929, it was festooned with Art Deco pinnacles that were removed decades ago. If you enlarge this picture of the south side of the building, you can just make out the shadows left by those vanished ornaments.


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