Facelift
It's not a recent shot,but it was taken on 23rd St between 5th and Avenue of the America's (6th Avenue) in Manhattan (a Home Depot store is a couple of stores down to the right for those curious to know).What's interesting about these buildings is that they were once brownstone houses back in 1857 in an era when brownstones were first seen on city streets.Cast-iron façades and additional floors were added to them in later years.The building with the Starbucks below was once a brownstone belonging George Frédéric Jones and is where his daughter,Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Edith Wharton (The Age of Innocence,Ethan Fromme) spent her childhood years.Miss Wharton didn't like brownstones and later said that it was the "most hideous" stone ever quarried.Her father,Mr Jones (or her two great-aunts according to another source) was said to have coined the phrase "Keeping up with the Jones's"The white blotches you see on the façades are from the sun.
Facelift
It's not a recent shot,but it was taken on 23rd St between 5th and Avenue of the America's (6th Avenue) in Manhattan (a Home Depot store is a couple of stores down to the right for those curious to know).What's interesting about these buildings is that they were once brownstone houses back in 1857 in an era when brownstones were first seen on city streets.Cast-iron façades and additional floors were added to them in later years.The building with the Starbucks below was once a brownstone belonging George Frédéric Jones and is where his daughter,Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Edith Wharton (The Age of Innocence,Ethan Fromme) spent her childhood years.Miss Wharton didn't like brownstones and later said that it was the "most hideous" stone ever quarried.Her father,Mr Jones (or her two great-aunts according to another source) was said to have coined the phrase "Keeping up with the Jones's"The white blotches you see on the façades are from the sun.