The weather is still chilly and skies are wintry gray. But on the facade of a building on East 30th Street, pretty white daisies have been popping up for at least a century.
You can see them on the underside of The Nottingham, a handsome apartment residence designed by Stanford White that has kind of a Byzantine or Tuscan look to it.
Bright white daisies with yellow centers surrounded by blue tiles appear under a second-floor juliet balcony.
When The Nottingham was built is a bit of a mystery. Real estate website say the late 19th century; an article on reinforced concrete from 1907 implies the early 1900s.
Did Stanford White have a hand in adding the daisies? It could be the kind of ornamental whimsy he enjoyed.
