A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century (1898)
Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC, Real Estate Record Association, Union League Club (New York, N.Y.), former owner. NNC · New York : Record and guide · leaf 368
ss that was suspended from a wooden frame at thetop of the elevator shaft. It was a slow affair, but it answered itspurpose without improvement for many years. But it was also thegerm of the present passenger elevator system, the main factor inthe most momentous revolution in building known to… … 362 .-^ HI STORY OF REAL ESTATE, as su(l(lciil\- and coiiiplctely (lr()i)i)c(l as it Iiad leaped into favor fiveor six years before. The hrin^inj^ of the passenger elevator to con-ditions of ]-)ractical utility threatened the future of hitjh-class com-mercial and hotel construction, before even the…
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