#beaux-art

Museum Arras / Mélissa VAN-DAMME

New York Public Library (detail, entrance) With the cornerstone laid in 1902, in 1910, after 75 miles of shelves were installed and the books were transported into the space and installed during a whole year, the New York Public Library was inaugurated and opened in 1911.

New York Public Library (detail, entrance) With the cornerstone laid in 1902, in 1910, after 75 miles of shelves were installed and the books were transported into the space and installed during a whole year, the New York Public Library was inaugurated and opened in 1911.

Stokes had a Utopian vision for the Ansonia—that it could be self-sufficient, or at least contribute to its own support—which led to perhaps the strangest New York apartment amenity ever. "The farm on the roof," Weddie Stokes wrote years later, "included about 500 chickens, many ducks, about six goats and a small bear." Every day, a bellhop delivered free fresh eggs to all the tenants, and any surplus was sold cheaply to the public in the basement arcade. Not much about this feature charmed the city fathers, however, and in 1907, the Department of Health shut down the farm in the sky.

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The Breakers (by h ssan)