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New York Architecture Interior
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Curb of Gambrel Roof After Fire, Vander Ende-Onderdonk House, 1977 Black and white photograph depicting partial interior view (attic) of the Vander Ende-Onderdonk House (Queens, NY), after 1975 fire. Visible in the image: partially intact underside of gambrel roof, charred support beams, and remains of wood-plank floor. Attic is covered in debris, floor boards missing and broken, and side wall completely destroyed except for portion of frame. This photograph (c. 1977) is part of a physical collection belonging to the Greater Ridgewood Historical Society. -
Truss Under Curb of Gambrel Roof, Vander Ende-Onderdonk House, 1936 Black and white photograph depicting partial interior view of the attic and gambrel roof, at the Vander Ende-Onderdonk House (Queens, NY). Visible in the image: the underside of gambrel roof, support beams, interior wall, window, brick chimney, and wood-plank attic floor. This photograph is part of the 1936 Historic American Building Survey. Digital image available through the Library of Congress. -
Statute Law - Helmet for Figure of "Force" A study done in preparation of a mural. At the turn of the twentieth century, American artists decorated important public buildings with colorful and theatrical murals, images that were meant to enhance architectural spaces and impart lessons of good taste and moral values. In 1898 the National Society of Mural Painters nominated Kenyon Cox and nine other members to create murals for the new state appellate court building in New York City. The space given to Cox was the most challenging: Only four feet high and thirty-five feet long, it had two smaller, angled areas at each end. He chose to paint allegorical figures symbolizing the principles of law. This study for the figure of Force shows a woman wearing a helmet and looking out with a formidable expression; it is the kind of detailed sketch Cox made of each figure before beginning the mural. (Morgan, Kenyon Cox, 1856-1919: A Life in American Art, 1994)