766 Amsterdam Avenue (New York City, New York)
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New York City, New York /
Amsterdam Avenue, 766
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3-story Italianate oofice building originally completed as a fire station in 1876. Designed by , it was built for Ladder Company 16, which was formed that same year. Identical firehouses were erected in other locations for Engine Company 13 and Engine Company 27. Six years later Ladder Company 16 was reorganized as Combination Engine Company 47. The ‘combination” referred to the unit’s assorted equipment: a steam engine, a ladder truck and a hose wagon. In 1891 Engine Company 47 moved out and was replaced by Hook and Ladder Company 22. The fire station was closed in 1960 when Hook and Ladder 22 moved to a new combined police and fire facility nearby on West 100th Street. The Amsterdam Avenue building was converted to a truck garage with offices on the 2nd floor. Today, the building is occupied by a real estate company.
The facade is clad in red brick above a black cast-iron ground floor. The end piers are designed to resemble stone, with rustication and fluted upper sections, with heraldic shields at the capitals. Smaller pilasters, rounded at the tops, separate the central, multi-paneled garage door from the narrow end bays - the south one has a high-set window, and the north one a recessed glass-and-metal door.
The 2nd floor has a segmental-arched double-window in the middle bay and tall single-windows in the end bays, while the 3rd floor has a wide, segmental-arched single-window in the middle and narrower square-headed single-windows at the ends. Brownstone sill courses underline both floors, as well as lintel courses, and the arched windows have splayed brick lintels, with a brownstone keystone and projecting center lintel at the 2nd floor's center bay. Rows of textured terra-cotta tiles line up below the modillioned, black cast-iron roof cornice.
The facade is clad in red brick above a black cast-iron ground floor. The end piers are designed to resemble stone, with rustication and fluted upper sections, with heraldic shields at the capitals. Smaller pilasters, rounded at the tops, separate the central, multi-paneled garage door from the narrow end bays - the south one has a high-set window, and the north one a recessed glass-and-metal door.
The 2nd floor has a segmental-arched double-window in the middle bay and tall single-windows in the end bays, while the 3rd floor has a wide, segmental-arched single-window in the middle and narrower square-headed single-windows at the ends. Brownstone sill courses underline both floors, as well as lintel courses, and the arched windows have splayed brick lintels, with a brownstone keystone and projecting center lintel at the 2nd floor's center bay. Rows of textured terra-cotta tiles line up below the modillioned, black cast-iron roof cornice.
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Coordinates: 40°47'42"N 73°58'12"W
- 240 West 98th Street 0.2 km
- 775 Columbus Avenue 0.3 km
- Verizon Building 1 km
- Cathedral Gardens 1.1 km
- United States Postal Service Office - Columbia University Station 1.2 km
- Mt. Sinai Doctors - Amsterdam 1.3 km
- Adam Clayton Powell State Office Building 2.5 km
- Harlem Children's Zone / Promise Academy 2.7 km
- Triborough Bridge Authority Administration Building 4.1 km
- Kolb Research Annex 5.8 km
- PS75 - The Emily Dickinson School 0.4 km
- Trinity School 0.5 km
- Manhattan Valley 0.5 km
- NYCHA Stephen Wise Towers 0.6 km
- Riverside Park 0.6 km
- Upper West Side 1 km
- Central Park 1.5 km
- Manhattan 1.6 km
- Upper East Side 2.4 km
- Hudson County, New Jersey 11 km