There aren’t many freestanding Victorian houses in Manhattan, which makes this one, on Amsterdam Avenue and 152nd Street, all the more remarkable. The front doors, the top floor, the roof—it’s all very Addams family-esque.
The house is currently used as office space for the American Cancer Society, but it must have a fascinating history.
This structure on Lower Fifth in the Flatiron District isn’t quite so Gothic. But that 2-story attic is very Munsters-like.
Tags: American Cancer Society office, gothic buildings in New York, Victorian houses in New York City
November 8, 2011 at 12:37 am |
Chaz was a friend of the family and when I was a little girl (early 1970s) he showed me this in book, he use to see it when he was a yonung man and its what he based the cartoon house on
its the wheelock mansion on 661 w158st by riverside drive
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