{"id":861,"date":"2016-05-07T13:02:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T17:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/old_wp\/?p=861"},"modified":"2018-08-29T15:16:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T19:16:32","slug":"295-city-island-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/standard\/bronx-survey\/295-city-island-avenue\/","title":{"rendered":"295 City Island Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/295-City-Island-Avenue02.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-825\" src=\"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/295-City-Island-Avenue02-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"295-City-Island-Avenue02\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><strong>Location:<\/strong> 295 City Island Avenue, Block: 5630 Lot: 32.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Status:<\/strong> Never landmarked or heard. It has been separated into four units.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/bronx-survey\/the-1978-bronx-survey\/\">Bronx Survey<\/a>:<\/strong> One of the earliest styles found extant on the island is the Greek Revival which began to develop as a national style around 1830, A reflection of the self-consciousness of the new republic, the Greek Revival was the first revival style in America; its plain but bold compositions and surfaces and classical elements were deliberately intended to echo the purity and dignity of ancient Greek architecture.<\/p>\n<p>A fine example of the Greek Revival style stands at 295 City Island Avenue and probably dates from the 1840 &#8216;s or 1850 &#8216;s. Although the frame structure is a simplified version of the style, its clean lines and composition and very plain facade contribute to a handsome design. Asymmetrically massed, the house is built in two sections. The southernmost part is one and one-half stories high with eyebrow windows at attic level, while the main portion contains two full stories. Typical of the style, the front entrance has received the most emphasis.<\/p>\n<p>Placed to the far left to allow room for a single front parlor,the main door is flanked by narrow sidelights and shaded by a small porch comprised of Doric pillars supporting a full entablature. Although this treatment exemplifies an elemental version of the style, the structure&#8217;s austere simplicity is still extremely striking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: 295 City Island Avenue, Block: 5630 Lot: 32. Status: Never landmarked or heard. It has been separated into four units. Description from the Bronx Survey: One of the earliest styles found extant on the island is the Greek Revival which began to develop as a national style around 1830, A reflection of the self-consciousness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[85,47,41,51],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bronx-survey","tag-295-city-island-avenue","tag-bronx","tag-bronx-survey","tag-surviving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}