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| F. W. Woolworth's Office - Woolworth Building |
"The appropriation for a house should be divided into two equal parts, one-half for the house, the other for the gardens, pathways, court, approach, terrace and the rest of it, or, as it might be termed, one-half for the pudding, the other for the sauce." Architect Thomas Hastings
A magnificent office worthy of any titan of industry. The Woolworth Building itself is it's own marvelous architectural masterpiece. Woolworth's Winfield Hall does indeed cover all the architectural design themes wrapped up in a marble jewel box and who wouldnt want to go out in style and rest for eternity in that spectacular Woodlawn mausoleum building.
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Woolworth got the grandchildren he deserved.
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ReplyDeleteFeeling a little hyperbolic are we? Take two aspirin, you'll feel better in the morning.
'A marble jewel box'.......
ReplyDeleteIs there another opinion on the matter? Hmmmm? HPHS is there a magic blogger button to block comments? lol.
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Archibuff - I purposely bait - no one has taken it regarding why he went "Pope". I wouldn't want to block:)
ReplyDeleteHPHS I log on alot and read your fascinating blog, but often don't leave any comments, my bad. Just want to state you always provide interesting, informative and in many cases incredibly extensive and well researched topics, i.e. the William H Vanderbilt house post, which are priceless and breathe new life into subjects I thought I knew a great deal about. It is always enjoyable to read.
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Archibuff thanks for the comment! I wish I could post more frequently. I have TONS of material. My main focus here will be to chronicle all the online material, photos and text, in a easy reading format. I have a number of items that aren't online that I'll inter-spread among those.
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ReplyDeleteThere is a terrible lost opportunity that still haunts me: twenty five years ago or so (and it may have been longer) the Woolworth Corporation (by then Foot Locker, I believe) quit the last of its offices in the Woolworth Building. They had apparently kept in storage all of the furniture from this office since Woolworth's death- down to the gold plated stick telephone on the desk, and they sent it off to William Doyle to be auctioned. None of it fetched much, and I kick myself for not following through on an idea I had at the time to get a Museum, like the Museum of the City of New York to bid on it- an intact plutocrat's office of a bygone era. I didn't have the money myself at the time, but I wish I had followed through on my vision.