Colonnade Row
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LaGrange Terrace
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view from uptown (north)
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 Colonnade Row
Colonnade Row
Colonnade Row
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| Location | New York, New York |
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| Coordinates | 40°43′46″N 73°59′34″W / 40.72944°N 73.99278°WCoordinates: 40°43′46″N 73°59′34″W / 40.72944°N 73.99278°W |
| Area | NoHo |
| Built | 1832 |
| Architect | unknown |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 76001242 |
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| Added to NRHP | December 12, 1976 |
| Designated NYCL | 1965 |
Colonnade Row, also known as LaGrange Terrace, on present-day Lafayette Street in New York City's NoHo neighborhood, is a landmarked series of Greek revival buildings originally built in the early 1830s. They are believed to have been built by Seth Geer, although the project has been attributed to a number of other architects. The buildings' original name comes from the Marquis de Lafayette's estate in France, but the series of nine row houses, of which four remain, owe their existence to John Jacob Astor, who bought the property and whose grandson John Jacob Astor III later lived at No. 424. The buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places under the name LaGrange Terrace and the facades remain standing on Lafayette Street south of Astor Place.
The nine original buildings, a series of Greek revival townhouses built by Seth Geer, a contractor from Albany, New York (whose name is also given as "Greer") were located at 418–426 Lafayette Place on the site of the Vauxhall Gardens Amusement Park. The property on which these buildings were constructed had been bought by Astor in 1804 for $45,000, and when the lease for the Vauxhall Gardens was up, Astor built a wide street through the property from Great Jones Street to Art Street, which is now Astor Place, and named it Lafayette Place after the Marquis de Lafayette, a hero of the American Revolution. The original name of the buildings was Lagrange or La Grange Terrace, named after Lafayette's country estate, one of many places named in his honor in New York City and elsewhere in the United States, after his triumphant return tour in 1824–25.
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