Badly damaged plots have been infilled with contemporary blocks that riff subtly off the proportions and details of their neighbours, the result of a strict design code that specified everything from the choice of five buttery shades of limestone, to the height of the street-frontage, to the two-storey set-back at the upper levels, ensuring the continuation of the handsome urban grain.
The western façade, facing the SMU campus and holding the entrance to the Bush Institute, is marked by a squared-off, double-height limestone portico.
On 57th Street there is No. 322, with a limestone facade and double-height spaces.
The current design is reminiscent of the grandest prewar apartment buildings, with a two-story base of limestone blocks with double-height arches highlighted by keystones and an entabulature capped by dentils.
She describes it as a small building of gray limestone "scaled to human height". It is a "joyous place," open to the world of nature and the city's skyscrapers in the distance.
The 36Cl ages are between ∼3.0 ka and ∼13.0 ka older than previous estimates based on rates of limestone dissolution derived from the heights of pedestals beneath the erratics.
"High ceilings, antique oak and limestone floors, barn-style double-height family room, media room, large oceanview master suite plus six additional bedrooms," said the listing.
Community Board 6, which includes Murray Hill, passed a resolution last year supporting the proposal, citing the "rows and rows of harmonious 1850's through 1890's brownstones and handsome Italianate brick and limestone town houses of uniform height".
If I were asked to describe James Ward's 1814 painting Gordale Scar, I'd launch straight in with exclamations about the height of the limestone cliffs, the deep shadow in the ravine, the sense of the earth shuddering, the theatre of it: the sublime.
If I were asked to describe James Ward's 1814 painting Gordale Scar, I'd launch straight in with exclamations about the height of the limestone cliffs, the deep shadow in the ravine, the sense of the earth shuddering, the theatre of it: the sublime.
