Public Building in Crotana Park, Tremont, New York, NY, 1895, George B. Post

Public Building in Crotana Park, Tremont, New York, NY
George B. Post, architect(s). From the American Architect and Building News, April 13, 1895. 16.5 by 12.5 inches. VG+ condition with light browning along the edges and some light crinkling.
George B. Post (1837-1913) designed Bronx Borough Hall with yellow brick and brown terra-cotta trim. Bronx Borough Hall was completed in 1897, and Louis F. Haffen, the first Bronx Borough President, was inaugurated in a second floor office in 1898. Despite efforts by the Bronx County Historical Society and others to renovate the hall for civic use, the building was deemed structurally unsafe and demolished on January 12, 1969. Hand-colored Original Plan. This picture is extremely hard to find, as the American Architect and Building News not only had a very small circulation during that time, but very few were actually preserved or colored as this has been. It measures 16.5 by 12.5 inches. Has a mat border and foam core backing (not attached to the picture). The whole plan measures approximately 19 by 17 inches (with mat border). Finely detailed and beautifully hand-colored. Shrink wrapped.