8 Responses to “St. Mary’s American Orthodox Greek Catholic Church”

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   Flickr: Arch-Sculptures, on September 1st, 2006 at 3:24 am Said:

   Hi,
   You know, I think I recognise a piece of sculpture, just for the heck of it sometime if you feel like it, I’d like to see an ultra-closeup pic of that round sculpture on the building on the left between the two arch top windows on the 5th floor. I am betting this is a lion head and it sure looks like one I found junked inside the rooftop cornice on an abandoned building on Stanton st. The lion sculpture had obviously been in a fire and was cracked, broken and severely damaged. There were a number of pieces of damaged sheet metal and other debris stuffed in there. I’m guessing during construction there was a fire that did damage, and the damaged stuff was dumped inside the cornice!

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   Flickr: GammaBlog, on September 1st, 2006 at 4:42 am Said:

   I’ll grab a close up for you randall. It amuses me that you may be able to recognize an old friend from such a paltry number of pixels.

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   Flickr: GammaBlog, on September 1st, 2006 at 6:31 pm Said:

   Here it goes Radall, but this guy looks in pretty good shape:

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   Flickr: Arch-Sculptures, on September 2nd, 2006 at 2:03 am Said:

   Thank you Gammablog, I left a comment on the lion pic.
   Yeah I have a definite eye for this stuff, amazes even me that I could tell what it was from that tiny little round spot in the church photo.
   I was right, it was a lion type head, might be a tiger or even lioness, but it’s certainly unique and I have never seen another like this. I probably saw it from the street in the 70′s, but from the street you cant see much.

   Mine differs somewhat (posted a pic of it just a bit ago) as well as being a few inches smaller, but these round pieces were doubly unique- they were rarely done chiefly because they took extra labor to get round evenly, as well as install them- the bricks all had to be cut to fit around it and that took extra time, so most of this stuff tended to be square or rectangular.

   This building is 117-119 and is not listed in the database, so it was built pre 1900, the building directly to it’s West- the red 7 story job was built in 1901 at a cost of $100,000. that’s about $2,215,000 today

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   Flickr: GammaBlog, on September 2nd, 2006 at 8:55 am Said:

   Yeah, you can see the brick on the lower right either was not cut accurately at the time or later cracked off. What really amused me, Randall, was that I was thinking that you were talking about a specific lion that you once rescued, that was now installed in this building.

   Where do you access this database of buildings?

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   Flickr: Arch-Sculptures, on September 10th, 2006 at 1:55 am Said:

   That too, but they would have filled that gap with mortar, it looks like the facade needs some tuck pointing.
   LOL, that is funny but I can see where the confusion might have been.

   The database is for post 1900 buildings only, it is located here;

   http://www.metrohistory.com/searchfront.htm

7. 
   Flickr: fusion-of-horizons, on June 6th, 2009 at 7:56 am Said:

   Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Orthodox Church Architecture, and we’d love to have this added to the group!

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   Flickr: fusion-of-horizons, on June 6th, 2009 at 2:56 pm Said:

   Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Orthodox Church Architecture, and we’d love to have this added to the group!

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