Georges B. Post's buildings in Albert Levy's photographs in the Halic Collection
George Post was a great architect, some of his works, its best buildings was photographed by Albert Levy conserving these photos at the Art Institute of Chicago in Halic Collection.
Albert Levy was a famous French architect who photographed especially for architects making "architecture albums", photographing the work of the best American architects late nineteenth especially those who developed their work in New Yorik, Boston, and Chicago.
Here I present the photos of George Post made by A. Levy preserves in the Halic Collection .Halic holds more photographs of Post's buildings made by other photographers
Se presentan en este post las fotos que Albert Levy hizo de edificios diseñados por el gran arquitecto George Browne Post.
Levy fue un fotógrafo francés, con estudio en Nueva York, que realizó muchas fotos de edificios realizados por los grandes arquitectos americanos de fines del siglo XIX, especialmente aquellos que trabajaron en Nueva York, Boston y Chicago.
Levy fue un fotógrafo francés, con estudio en Nueva York, que realizó muchas fotos de edificios realizados por los grandes arquitectos americanos de fines del siglo XIX, especialmente aquellos que trabajaron en Nueva York, Boston y Chicago.
Estas fotos pertenecen a los fondos de la Halic, conservados en el Art Institute of Chicago.
Historic Architecture and Landscape Image (HALIC):
Consisting of approximately 11,000
images that document the architecture, landscape and urban
planning of sites across the United States - with a particular
emphasis on Chicago and its suburbs - and, to a lesser extent,
internationally, The Historic Architecture and Landscape Image
collection, or HALIC, contains mounted photographic prints,
lantern slides (both black and white and hand-colored), and
postcards dating from the 1860s to the 1970s.
Hay que señalar que en esta misma colección se conservan otras fotos de edificios diseñados por George Post y realizadas por otros fotógrafos
The name,"Chateau-Nooga" is a play on words and a tribute to one of the nations premier railroads and specifically, the Chattanooga Line.
Was built in 1880 for C.C. Baldwin, president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company.
| Title/Project Name | Chateau-Nooga |
| Alternate Title/Project Name | Baldwin, C.C., Residence |
| Street Address/Neighborhood | Bellevue Ave. |
| City | Newport |
| State/Province | Rhode Island |
| Country | United States |
| Date Designed or Built | 1880-1881 |
| Architect/Designer/Creator | Post, George Browne |
| Date of View | 1883-1895 |
| View or Detail Type | Exterior, front |
| Image Notes | perspective view from the street; from Albert Levy's Architectural Photographic Series, Series 2, No. 156 |
| Title/Project Name | Hutchinson, William J., Residence |
| Street Address/Neighborhood | 4 W. 58th St. |
| City | New York City |
| State/Province | New York |
| Country | United States |
| Date Designed or Built | 1882 |
| Architect/Designer/Creator | Post, George Browne |
| Date of View | 1883-1895 |
| View or Detail Type | Exterior, perspective |
| Image Notes | view south, with people on stairs; from Albert Levy's Architectural Photographic Series, Series 16, No. 273 |
| Caption/Inscription Text | BRC: 273; written on verso TLC: XVI - 273 |
| Photographer | Levy, Albert [New York City] |
Detail
| Title/Project Name | Mills Building |
| Street Address/Neighborhood | NE corner Broad St. and Wall St. |
| City | New York City |
| State/Province | New York |
| Country | United States |
| Date Designed or Built | 1882 |
| Architect/Designer/Creator | Post, George Browne |
| Date of Object | c.1885-1895 |
| View or Detail Type | Exterior |
| Image Notes | Levy #683 |
| Photographer | Levy, Albert |
The Mills Building was a 10 story structure which stood at 15 Broad Street and Exchange Place[1] in Manhattan, with an L to 35 Wall Street. It adjoined the building which was the home of Equitable Trust. It also adjoined the J. P. Morgan & Company Building on both Broad and Wall Streets.[2] George B. Post was the architect of the edifice.
Detail of the photo
| Title/Project Name | New York Produce Exchange |
| Street Address/Neighborhood | 2 Broadway; Manhattan (borough) |
| City | New York City |
| State/Province | New York |
| Country | United States |
| Date Designed or Built | 1884 |
| Architect/Designer/Creator | Post, George Browne |
| Date of Object | c.1885-1895 |
| View or Detail Type | Exterior |
| Image Notes | Levy #711 |
| Photographer | Levy, Albert |
The plot is next to the historic Bowling Green. 2 Broadway was built on the site of the Produce Exchange Building,
a representative structure of brick with terracotta decorations. Its
grand skylighted hall, based on French retail structures, cast daylight
into the lower floors. Its architect was George B. Post, who built it from 1881–84. The building can be briefly seen in the 1928 silent movie Speedy with Harold Lloyd.
The Produce Exchange Building was demolished in 1957
| Title/Project Name | Office Building |
| City | Troy |
| State/Province | New York |
| Country | United States |
| Date Designed or Built | c.1870s-1880s |
| Architect/Designer/Creator | Post, George Browne |
| Date of View | c.1890s |
| View or Detail Type | Exterior, perspective |
| Image Notes | view from above street level |
| Caption/Inscription Text | BRC: 62 |
| Photographer | Levy, Albert [New York City] |
Detail
The photographs above are taken at ground, the photographer is on the street.
The photograph is placed across the street at a distance, across the street, just to enter the entire facade of edificion in the photo. Sometimes the photo is made from an angle for a more complete view of the building and also give a sense of volume.
But in other photos Albert Levy takes their picture from a point of view much higher, possibly a nearby building, and the picture is slightly biting the camera ( camera's down photographs) so that you can see the streets surrounding the building and so gives depth to the picture .
But in other photos Albert Levy takes their picture from a point of view much higher, possibly a nearby building, and the picture is slightly biting the camera ( camera's down photographs) so that you can see the streets surrounding the building and so gives depth to the picture .
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Las fotos anteriores estan realizadas a ras del suelo. El fotógrafo se coloca al otro lado de la calle a cierta distancia,al otro lado de la calle, lo justo para que entre toda la fachada del edificion en la foto.
A veces la foto se hace desde un ángulo bajo para una visión mas completa del edificio y, además, para dar la sensación de volumen propia del edificio
Pero en otras fotos Albert Levy realiza su foto desde un punto de vista mucho mas elevado, posiblemente un edificio cercano, y hace la foto picando ligeramente la cámara de tal manera que se ven las calles que bordean el edificio, asi da profundidad a la foto.
A veces la foto se hace desde un ángulo bajo para una visión mas completa del edificio y, además, para dar la sensación de volumen propia del edificio
Pero en otras fotos Albert Levy realiza su foto desde un punto de vista mucho mas elevado, posiblemente un edificio cercano, y hace la foto picando ligeramente la cámara de tal manera que se ven las calles que bordean el edificio, asi da profundidad a la foto.
Levy y los arquitectos
Como vemos en esta serie de fotografías Albert Levy documentó la labor de los grandes arquitectos de su tiempo de una manera sistemática. Ademas sus fotos se realizaron en diferentes lugares, ciudades americanas, especialmente en Nueva York. Su objetivo son, sobre todo, los edificios civiles muchos de los cuales no han llegado hasta nuestros tiempos de ahi que estas fotos tengan un gran valor documental o historico .
Levy and architects
As we see in this series of photographs Albert Levy documented the work of the great architects of his time in a systematic way. Besides the photos were made in different places, American cities, especially in New York. It targets mainly civil buildings many of which have not reached our times there that these pictures are a great documentary or historical value
| Title/Project Name | Unidentified residence |
| Street Address/Neighborhood | 36th St. near Madison Ave.; Manhattan (borough) |
| City | New York City |
| State/Province | New York |
| Country | United States |
| Date Designed or Built | c.1870s-1883 |
| Architect/Designer/Creator | Post, George Browne |
| Date of Object | c.1883 |
| View or Detail Type | Exterior |
| Image Notes | Levy #217. Demolished. |
| Photographer | Levy, Albert |
| Title/Project Name | Vanderbilt, Cornelius, II, Residence |
| Alternate Title/Project Name | Vanderbilt, Cornelius, II, Mansion |
| Street Address/Neighborhood | nw corner of Fifth Ave. and 57th St. |
| City | New York City |
| State/Province | New York |
| Country | United States |
| Date Designed or Built | 1879-1882 |
| Architect/Designer/Creator | Post, George Browne |
| Date of View | 1883-1895 |
| View or Detail Type | Exterior, perspective |
| Image Notes | view from across the corner; from Albert Levy's Architectural Photographic Series, Series 16, No. 77 |
......... "Why Cornelius Vanderbilt
selected Post, and not Richard Morris Hunt, as architect for his
Fifth Avenue mansion is open to speculation. Certainly there were
direct connections between Post and the Vanderbilts. Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt's brother, David E. Gwynne, had served with Post in
the Twenty-Second Regiment during the Civil Wr, and Cornelius
Vanderbilt was already a major stockholder in the Western Union
Telegraph Company and a member of he building committee when Post
won that commission. Post and Vanderbilt wree fellow members of
the Century Association.
...... Hunt's city mansion for William I. Banderbilt was rising nearby.
Both mansions were part of what has often been called 'Vanderbilt
Row' on the west side of Fifth Avenue: Cornelius's at the corner
of West 57th Street and his brother's at West 52nd Street just
to the north of the contemporary twin mansions of their father,
W. H. Vanderbilt........
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. "¿Por qué Cornelius Vanderbilt seleccionado Post, y no a Richard Morris Hunt, como arquitecto de su mansión de la Quinta Avenida está abierto a la especulación. Ciertamente había conexiones directas entre Post y los Vanderbilt. El hermano de la señora Cornelius Vanderbilt, David E. Gwynne, había servido con en el Regimiento XXII durante la guerra Civil Civil. Cornelius Vanderbilt ya era un importante accionista en la Western Union Telegraph Company y miembro del comité de Creación de él cuando Post ganó esa comisión.
...... Mansión Hunt ciudad para Guillermo I. Banderbilt se levantaba cerca. Ambas mansiones formaban parte de lo que ha sido llamado a menudo 'Row Vanderbilt' en el lado oeste de la Quinta Avenida: Cornelio, en la esquina de West 57th Street y su hermano en West 52nd Street justo al norte de las mansiones contemporáneas gemelos de su padre, WH Vanderbilt ........
...... Mansión Hunt ciudad para Guillermo I. Banderbilt se levantaba cerca. Ambas mansiones formaban parte de lo que ha sido llamado a menudo 'Row Vanderbilt' en el lado oeste de la Quinta Avenida: Cornelio, en la esquina de West 57th Street y su hermano en West 52nd Street justo al norte de las mansiones contemporáneas gemelos de su padre, WH Vanderbilt ........
| Title/Project Name | Vanderbilt, Cornelius, II, Residence |
| Alternate Title/Project Name | Vanderbilt, Cornelius, II, Mansion |
| Street Address/Neighborhood | nw corner of Fifth Ave. and 57th St. |
| City | New York City |
| State/Province | New York |
| Country | United States |
| Date Designed or Built | 1879-1882 |
| Architect/Designer/Creator | Post, George Browne |
| Date of View | 1883-1895 |
| View or Detail Type | Exterior, front |
| Image Notes | perspective view from across the street; from Albert Levy's Architectural Photographic Series, Series 16, No. 78 |
| Caption/Inscription Text | BRC: 78; verso, written: XVI - 78 |
| Photographer | Levy, Albert [New York City] |
| Title/Project Name | Wall Street |
| Alternate Title/Project Name | Orient Insurance Company Building Queens Insurance Company Building Mills Building |
| Street Address/Neighborhood | 47-35 Wall St. |
| City | New York City |
| State/Province | New York |
| Country | United States |
| Date Designed or Built | 1876-1877; 1877; 1880-1882 |
| Architect/Designer/Creator | Thorp, Alfred Clinton and Pirsson |
| Additional Architect or Designer | Post, George Browne |
| Architect or Designer Notes | Thorp, Alfred [architect]; Clinton and Pirsson [Queens architect]; Post, George B. [architect] |
| Date of View | c.1885-1900 |
| View or Detail Type | Exterior, front |
| Image Notes | view SE from across the street above street level of Orient Building on left and Queen Building on right, with partial view of Mills building at far right |
| Caption/Inscription Text | BLC: 12 |
| Photographer | Levy, Albert [New York City] |
| Title/Project Name | Wall Street |
| Alternate Title/Project Name | Queens Insurance Company Building Mills Building |
| Street Address/Neighborhood | 39-33 Wall St. |
| City | New York City |
| State/Province | New York |
| Country | United States |
| Date Designed or Built | 1877; 1880-1882 |
| Architect/Designer/Creator | Clinton and Pirsson Post, George Browne |
| Architect or Designer Notes | Clinton and Pirsson [Queens architect]; Post, George B. [architect] |
| Date of View | c.1885-1900 |
| View or Detail Type | Exterior detail |
| Image Notes | view of upper stories of (L-R) Queen Building, Mills Building, and 33-35 Wall St. |
| Caption/Inscription Text | BLC: 13 |
| Photographer | Levy, Albert [New York City] |
George Browne Post Wikipedia
.Post was a student of Richard Morris Hunt (1858–60), but unlike many architects of his generation, he had previously received a degree in civil engineering (Scientific School, New York University, 1858)..
His vast New York Produce Exchange (1881–84) at 2 Broadway faced Bowling Green. Its grand skylighted hall, based on French retail structures, cast daylight into the lower floors.
At the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, Post was named to the architectural staff by Burnham and Root[2] and assigned the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building,...........
He also designed more staid public and semi-public structures: the New York Stock Exchange Building and the Wisconsin State Capitol. Among the prominent private houses by Post were the French chateau for Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1879–82) that once stood at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street (that was photographed by Albert Levy while being built), and the palazzo that faced it across the street, for Collis P. Huntington (1889–94). In Newport, Rhode Island he built for the president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad,
C.C. Baldwin, "Chateau-Nooga" or the Baldwin Cottage (1879–80), a
polychromatic exercise in the "Quaint Style" with bargeboards and
half-timbering; John La Farge provided stained glass panels.
Bibliography
"George B. Post, Architect,Picturesque Designer and Determined Realist," by Sarah BradfordLandau,
Catalogue of Albert Levy's photographs in the Gallica ( Bibliotheque Nationale France)
Full bibliographic record
Title : Catalogue de photographies d'architecture européenne et américaine, ancienne et moderne. .. / Albert Lévy
Author : Lévy, Albert (1847-1905 ?) See only the results matching this author.
Publisher : [s.n.] (Paris [19, rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin])
Date of publication : 1887
Subject : Lévy (Albert), catalogue commercial, 1887 Search in Gallica all documents with this subject
Type : monographie imprimée
Language : French
Format : 62 p. ; 22 cm
Format : application/pdf
Copyright : domaine public
Identifier : ark:/12148/btv1b7200008p
Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie, EST AD-1822 (091)
Relation : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40379124w
Provenance : bnf.fr