🌬 Pᥲrk Avᥱᥒᥙᥱ Armorყ 🌬 . 📍#facts . English (Spanish below) ———————————————— ♟ Park Avenue Armory, is a nonprofit cultural institution within the historic Seventh Regiment Armory building located at 643 Park Avenue on New York City's Upper East Side. The institution displays unconventional artwork, including performing and visual arts. . 👥 The Armory was built by the National Guard’s prestigious Seventh Regiment, the first militia to respond to President Lincoln’s call for volunteers in 1861.Members of the “Seventh” included Van Rensselaers, Roosevelts, Stewarts, Livingstons, and Harrimans, many of whom hired the decorators from the Armory for their own elaborate city mansions and country palaces of the Gilded Age. . 👉 The 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall, with an 80-foot-high barrel vaulted roof, is one of the largest unobstructed spaces in New York City. . 💨 The Armory’s magnificent reception rooms were designed by leaders of the American Aesthetic Movement, among them Louis Comfort Tiffany, Stanford White, Candace Wheeler, and Herter Brothers. . 🖼 The building is currently undergoing a $210-million renovation designed by Herzog & de Meuron with Platt Byard Dovell White Architects. . Spanish ———————————————— ♟ Park Avenue Armory, es una institución cultural sin fines de lucro dentro del histórico edificio del Séptimo Regimiento Armory ubicado en el Upper East Side. La institución exhibe obras de arte no convencionales, incluidas las artes escénicas y visuales. . 👥The Armory fue construido por el Séptimo Regimiento de la Guardia Nacional, la primera milicia en responder al llamado del presidente Lincoln para voluntarios en 1861. Los miembros del "Séptimo" incluyeron a Van Rensselaers, Roosevelts, Stewarts, Livingstons y Harrimans, muchos de los cuales contrataron los decoradores de la Armería para sus propias mansiones urbanas y palacios campestres de la Edad Dorada. . 👉La sala de perforación Wade Thompson de 55,000 pies cuadrados, con un techo abovedado de cañón de 80 pies de altura, es uno de los espacios sin obstáculos más grandes de la ciudad de NY. . #thearmory #thearmorync #newyork #nyc #blackandwhite #instablackandwhite (at Park Avenue Armory) https://www.instagram.com/p/B39oEawBb7r/?igshid=orr6ipwhgfvj
