Sep 26, 2024 - Sale 2679

Sale 2679 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

ARCHITECT UNKNOWN


Sketches of Roof Trusses, Buildings & Piers for Pennsylvania Railroad facilities in New York City. 1883-1893 and undated.
50 blueprint leaves on paper, a few of them folding. Oblong octavo, 13x26 cm, 5x10 inches; original blueprint wrappers on architectural vellum, minor wear; minimal wear to contents, plate 14 apparently not issued.

Sites include a Williamsburg freight shed; Piers 4 and 5; the ferry entrance at Courtlandt Street; 37th Street Yard; Brooklyn's Wallabout Pier; and New Jersey facilities in Jersey City, Harsimus Cove, Hoboken, and Greenville. None traced in OCLC or at auction.