The hotel combines two turn-of-the-century landmarks, the Maison Blanche Building and the Kress department store, and the signs of big-money investment are unmistakable.
Projected titles include two turn-of-the-century violin concertos by Leopold Stokowski (if they can be found) and an orchestral partita by Lionel Barrymore, the actor.
In fact, Mr. Mostovshchikov said, his magazine was inspired as much by two turn-of-the-20th-century Russian literary magazines called Niva and Nos, or Wheatfield and Nose, as by The New Yorker.
Here, Miss Tey is researching a book about two turn-of-the-century baby farmers, but when a young seamstress is found murdered, she becomes involved in the investigation and it soon becomes clear the cases are connected.
The other is "Gold!" by Stephen Sondheim, a musical about the exploits of two turn-of-the-century adventurers that has been plagued by legal and creative problems but which Mr. Sondheim says is now ready for full-scale production.
The former headquarters of the United Federation of Teachers -- a complex of two turn-of-the-20th-century buildings on Park Avenue South between 20th and 21st Streets -- is being converted into 110 luxury apartments.
Griffith's immediate source was The Clansman, a play based by Thomas Dixon Jr on two turn-of-the-century novels that represented the South as some kind of Arcadia from which all the best features of American life had sprung.
Among the new businesses to take their places among the two turn-of-the-century pharmacies, the bakery and the hardware store are an all-Irish boutique, the Broadway Diner and Harbor Lights Restaurant (steak and seafood).
"I don't want to say that I am a Jane Addams or a John Dewey, but I aspire to that role," Mr. Putnam said, naming two turn-of-the-century social reformers who were both scholars and doers.
The evolution of the book from papyrus scroll to bound paper is an oft-told story, and for the history of book housing Petroski is noticeably dependent upon two turn-of-the-last century works by John Willis Clark..
