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    The Lescaze House is a four-story house at 211 East 48th Street in the East Midtown and Turtle Bay neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It is...
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    William Edmond Lescaze FAIA (March 27, 1896 – February 9, 1969), was a Swiss-born American architect, city planner and industrial designer. He is ranked...
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  • bathrooms, a solarium, a winter garden, and a terrace. Lescaze House, William Lescaze's own house, designed in a similar style Architecture of New York...
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    (9.3 m2). The William Lescaze House and Office at 211 East 48th Street in New York City, built in 1934, was the city's first house to use glass blocks as...
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    her time to him and his career. Until 1957, the couple lived near the Lescaze House on East 48th Street in New York before moving to California. After Hawaii...
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    Individual houses designated as city landmarks include the Paul Rudolph Penthouse and Apartments at 23 Beekman Place;: 345  the Lescaze House at 211 East...
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    community. William Lescaze's renovation of an existing brownstone townhouse on 48th Street, and its subsequent conversion into the Lescaze House, inspired similar...
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  • Georgetown house as a safe house in the ABSCAM sting operation. Lee Lescaze was the son of the famous early American modernist architect William Lescaze (1896–1969)...
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    community. William Lescaze's renovation of an existing brownstone on 48th Street, and its subsequent conversion into the Lescaze House, inspired similar...
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  • Streets. Landmarks Preservation Commission, New York City. "Fisk-Harkness House" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission New York City Landmarks...
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