Knickerbocker Press Building

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name = Knickerbocker Press Building
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location = New Rochelle, NY
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built = 1889
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architecture = Flemish Renaissance Revival
added = 2000
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The Knickerbocker Press Building is located at 50-52 Webster Avenue in New Rochelle, New York, USA. With its Flemish gable, arched windows and decorative brickwork, it falls into the rather rare Flemish Renaissance Revival style.It was built in 1889 by G.P. Putnam and Sons, one of the nation’s leading publishers at the time. In the building’s long history. After 30 years as a publishing house, the American White Cross moved in and manufactured bandages there until 1995. Parts of the complex were used as artists’ lofts during the 1980s and 1990s. The building was converted into residential lofts in 2007. [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/realestate/23wczo.html Lofts With Stories to Tell] , Elsa Brenner, The New York Times, 23 September 2007]

The eclectic, late century industrial building was added to the Westchester County, New York State and National Registers of Historic Places in 2000. [ [http://www.westchestergov.com/planning/Design/StateNatlRegisters.htm Inventory of Historic Places] ] [ [http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/NY/Westchester/state2.html National Register of Historic Places] ]

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External links

* [http://www.cr.nps.gov/NR/ National Register of Historic Places]
* [http://www.archiplanet.org/wiki/Knickerbocker_Press_Building Archiplanet]