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Heins & LaFarge, the Glossary

Heins & LaFarge was a New York City–based architectural firm founded by Philadelphia-born architect George Lewis Heins (1860–1907) and Christopher Grant LaFarge (1862–1938), the eldest son of the artist John La Farge.^[1]

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American Academy in Rome

The American Academy in Rome is a research and arts institution located on the Gianicolo in Rome, Italy.

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American Institute of Architects

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States.

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American Renaissance

The American Renaissance was a period of American architecture and the arts from 1876 to 1917, characterized by renewed national self-confidence and a feeling that the United States was the heir to Greek democracy, Roman law, and Renaissance humanism.

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Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church (Manhattan)

The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church is a Greek Orthodox church on Manhattan's Upper West Side at West End Avenue and West 91st Street. Heins & LaFarge and Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church (Manhattan) are Heins and LaFarge buildings.

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Archives of American Art

The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States.

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Atlantic Terra Cotta Company

The Atlantic Terra Cotta Company was established in 1879 as the Perth Amboy Terra Cotta in Perth Amboy, New Jersey due to rich regional supplies of clay.

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Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

Bedford–Stuyvesant, colloquially known as Bed–Stuy, is a neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Bell tower

A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Bowling Green (New York City)

Bowling Green is a small, historic, public park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City, at the southern end and address origin of Broadway.

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Bowling Green station

The Bowling Green station is a station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at Broadway and Battery Place (at Bowling Green), in the Financial District of Manhattan. Heins & LaFarge and Bowling Green station are Heins and LaFarge buildings.

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Bronx Zoo

The Bronx Zoo (also historically the Bronx Zoological Park and the Bronx Zoological Gardens) is a zoo within Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York. Heins & LaFarge and Bronx Zoo are Heins and LaFarge buildings.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

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Byzantine art

Byzantine art comprises the body of artistic products of the Eastern Roman Empire, as well as the nations and states that inherited culturally from the empire.

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Cathedral of St. John the Divine

The Cathedral of St. Heins & LaFarge and Cathedral of St. John the Divine are Heins and LaFarge buildings.

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Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle (Washington, D.C.)

The Cathedral of St. Heins & LaFarge and Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle (Washington, D.C.) are Heins and LaFarge buildings.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Charles C. Haight

Charles Coolidge Haight (March 17, 1841 – February 9, 1917) was an American architect who practiced in New York City. Heins & LaFarge and Charles C. Haight are American ecclesiastical architects, architects from New York City and Defunct architecture firms based in New York City.

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City Beautiful movement

The City Beautiful movement was a reform philosophy of North American architecture and urban planning that flourished during the 1890s and 1900s with the intent of introducing beautification and monumental grandeur in cities.

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City Hall station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)

The City Hall station, also known as City Hall Loop station, is a closed station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway.

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Crossing (architecture)

A crossing, in ecclesiastical architecture, is the junction of the four arms of a cruciform (cross-shaped) church.

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Doric order

The Doric order is one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.

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Early history of the IRT subway

The first regularly operated line of the New York City Subway was opened on October 27, 1904, and was operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT). Heins & LaFarge and Early history of the IRT subway are history of the New York City Subway.

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Eleventh Avenue (Manhattan)

Eleventh Avenue is a north–south thoroughfare on the far West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, located near the Hudson River.

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Flushing Armory

The Flushing Armory is a historic National Guard armory building located in Flushing, Queens.

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Freemasonry

Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 14th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.

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Geneva Armory

Geneva Armory is a historic National Guard armory building located at Geneva in Ontario County, New York.

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Gloversville Armory

Gloversville Armory is a historic National Guard armory building located at 87 Washington Street in Gloversville, Fulton County, New York.

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Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.

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Grueby Faience Company

The Grueby Faience Company, founded in 1894, was an American ceramics company that produced distinctive American art pottery vases and tiles during America's Arts and Crafts Movement.

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Guastavino tile

The Guastavino tile arch system is a version of Catalan vault introduced to the United States in 1885 by Spanish architect and builder Rafael Guastavino (1842–1908).

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Henry Hobson Richardson

Henry Hobson Richardson, FAIA (September 29, 1838 – April 27, 1886) was an American architect, best known for his work in a style that became known as Richardsonian Romanesque. Heins & LaFarge and Henry Hobson Richardson are American railway architects.

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Interborough Rapid Transit Company

The Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) was the private operator of New York City's original underground subway line that opened in 1904, as well as earlier elevated railways and additional rapid transit lines in New York City. Heins & LaFarge and Interborough Rapid Transit Company are history of the New York City Subway.

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Ionic order

The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian.

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John La Farge

John La Farge (March 31, 1835 – November 14, 1910) was an American artist whose career spanned illustration, murals, interior design, painting, and popular books on his Asian travels and other art-related topics.

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Latin cross

A Latin cross or is a type of cross in which the vertical beam sticks above the crossbeam, giving the cross four arms.

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List of numbered streets in Manhattan

The New York City borough of Manhattan contains 214 numbered east–west streets ranging from 1st to 228th, the majority of them designated in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811.

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Main Street Armory

The Main Street Armory is a multi-purpose arena located at 900 East Main Street in Rochester, New York.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Medina Armory

The Medina Armory is located on Pearl Street in Medina, New York, United States.

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Metropolitan Club (Washington, D.C.)

The Metropolitan Club of the City of Washington is a private club in Washington, D.C. In September 1983, The New York Times called it "Washington's oldest and most exclusive club". Heins & LaFarge and Metropolitan Club (Washington, D.C.) are Heins and LaFarge buildings.

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New Amsterdam

New Amsterdam (Nieuw Amsterdam) was a 17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherland.

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New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York City Subway

The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system in the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.

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New York City Subway tiles

Many New York City Subway stations are decorated with colorful ceramic plaques and tile mosaics.

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Oneonta Armory

Oneonta Armory is a historic National Guard armory building located at Oneonta in Otsego County, New York, built in 1905 with a brick and stone castle-like structure.

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Oswego Armory

Oswego Armory is a historic National Guard armory located at Oswego in Oswego County, New York.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island.

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Rafael Guastavino

Rafael Guastavino Moreno (March 1, 1842 February 1, 1908) was a Spanish building engineer and builder who immigrated to the United States in 1881; his career for the next three decades was based in New York City.

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Ralph Adams Cram

Ralph Adams Cram (December 16, 1863 – September 22, 1942) was a prolific and influential American architect of collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings, often in the Gothic Revival style. Heins & LaFarge and Ralph Adams Cram are American ecclesiastical architects and architects of Roman Catholic churches.

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Richardsonian Romanesque

Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886).

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Romanesque art

Romanesque art is the art of Europe from approximately 1000 AD to the rise of the Gothic style in the 12th century, or later depending on region.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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Second Vatican Council

The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the or, was the 21st and most recent ecumenical council of the Catholic Church.

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Squire J. Vickers

Squire Joseph Vickers (1872–1947) was an "underground Renaissance man", according to The New York Times. Heins & LaFarge and Squire J. Vickers are history of the New York City Subway.

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St. Anthony Hall

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St. James Cathedral (Seattle)

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State architect

Many national governments and states have a public official titled the state architect or government architect.

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State University of New York

The State University of New York (SUNY) is a system of public colleges and universities in the State of New York.

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The Battery (Manhattan)

The Battery, formerly known as Battery Park, is a public park located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City facing New York Harbor.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or T.R., was an American politician, soldier, conservationist, historian, naturalist, explorer and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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United States Military Academy

The United States Military Academy (USMA), also referred to metonymically as West Point or simply as Army, is a United States service academy in West Point, New York.

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Upper West Side

The Upper West Side (UWS) is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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Wellesley College

Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

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West Point, New York

West Point is the oldest continuously occupied military post in the United States.

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Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a global 501(c)(3) non-governmental organization headquartered at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, that states its mission as saving "wildlife and wild places across the globe".

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William Barclay Parsons

William Barclay Parsons (April 15, 1859 – May 9, 1932) was an American civil engineer. Heins & LaFarge and William Barclay Parsons are history of the New York City Subway.

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Yale University

Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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72nd Street station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)

The 72nd Street station is an express station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Broadway, 72nd Street, and Amsterdam Avenue in the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan. Heins & LaFarge and 72nd Street station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line) are Heins and LaFarge buildings.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heins_%26_LaFarge

Also known as Christopher Grant La Farge, Christopher Grant LaFarge, George L. Heins, George Lewis Heins, Heins & La Farge, Heins and LaFarge.

, Providence, Rhode Island, Rafael Guastavino, Ralph Adams Cram, Richardsonian Romanesque, Romanesque art, Seattle, Second Vatican Council, Squire J. Vickers, St. Anthony Hall, St. James Cathedral (Seattle), State architect, State University of New York, The Battery (Manhattan), Theodore Roosevelt, United States Military Academy, Upper West Side, Washington, D.C., Wellesley College, West Point, New York, Wildlife Conservation Society, William Barclay Parsons, Yale University, 72nd Street station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line).

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Heins and LaFarge buildings

History of the New York City Subway

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