stands an Art Noveau Building with landmark status;
20 Vesey Street.
20 Vesey St. is where the New York Evening Post was located for many years,
so the bulding is known as the Post Building.
make sense so far?
the Post Building was designed by Robert D. Kohn between 1906 & 1907.
we've walked past this building at least a hundred times and never looked up.
this isn't unusual, we tend to keep our eyes on the surrounding herd of commuters,
also we don't want bad boys to mistake us for tourists,
{just too much bother}.
there's a newstand at the sidewalk level of this building,
and in front of the stand there hangs a clock.
THIS clock catches our attention,
and we have taken many photos of said clock,
though we're not posting these pix, 'cause that's not what this post is about.
{ It's About Time has an excellent pic of the clock,
plus more info on the building. take a look}
one day we happen to look up and see this beautiful building
and there are four statues at the ninth floor level just looking back at us.
we KNOW there's a story to the building {in Manhattan every building has a story}.
but we're not in the mood to go looking for it.;
ask us what the statues represent, . . . heck if we know.
[click to enlarge]
{images by O'Dasor De, LAM}
however,
over at the Forgotten Delights website,
Dianne Durante, Phd advises us that the statues are meant to be examined from right to left,
and that they represent Four Periods of Publicity:
spoken word, written word, newspapers(?), and printing press.
'tis a little weird and redundant but it beats the blank that WE come up with.
see close-ups and read more detail at Dianne's site
now, we DO know that the statues were designed by Gutzon Borglum .
yep, the same Borglum who designed Mount Rushmore .
so there you have it, when you're in Manhattan,
if you happen to find yourself by Ground Zero,
look for the Post Building, take some pictures,
do some googling & wiking,
post more info, and give a shout-out to here. :-)
oh, oh, . . .
these blogs were also helpful:
The Masterpiece Next Door
20 Vesey Street
New York Evening Post building
(NYLPC Landmark and National Register)
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
finally, we couldn't find a Borglum statement on The Four Periods of Publicity,
but we settled for a statement on his more famous work:
"The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt."
~~ Gutzon Borglum
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