The Ansonia is a landmark Beaux-Arts building, dating to 1902 and finished in 1913. Located on Broadway and 73rd Street in New York City, it was built by W.E.D. Stokes, an eccentric heir to a copper fortune who insisted on fanciful turrets and decorative elements. The architect hired for the job, Emile Paul DuBoy, was fetched from Europe, and impresses visitors with equally exciting interiors comprised of elliptical living rooms, apses and sculpture niches. The Ansonia was built with artists in mind with doorways wide enough to accommodate a piano, thick soundproof walls and cooled pipes in the summer.
Historic photograph of original building with text that says,
"THE ANSONIA, Broadway and 73rd Street,
Most Superbly Equiped Home in the World. New York, NY"
Note Rutgers Church on the left, since rebuilt.
Historic photograph of Ansonia in context with new Rutgers Church and
what is now Apple Bank on the right.
Modern day photograph of the entrance on 73rd Street.
Here is a video taken in the public triangle park near the Ansonia.
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