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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1898/00/00 E Howard Clock Company Manufacturer As advertising, Adolph Stern has a 17-foot, two-faced cast iron clock installed in front of his jewelry store.
1945/10/00 In "The Lost Weekend", Ray Milland (playing Don Birnam) hangs on to the Yorkville Clock in a drunken stupor. The Lost Weekend (film)
1999/09/15 Restored by Historical Arts and Casting of Utah, 10 workers reinstall the Yorkville Clock. Preservationist Margot Gayle, led the effort to have it designated a NYC landmark in 1981 and raising of $18,000 to restore it.

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Particulars for Yorkville Sidewalk Clock:
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Area of Significance Art
Area of Significance Commerce
Criteria Historic Event
Sight Category Object
Owner Private
Historic Use Street furniture, object



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 18th April 1985

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Sidewalk Clock at 1501 3rd Avenue, Manhattan
Registry Address: 1501 3rd Ave.
Registry Number: 85000926
Resource Type: Object
Theme Group: Sidewalk Clocks of New York City TR
Owner: Private
Architect: E. Howard Clock Co.
Contributing Objects: 1
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Commerce, Art
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1925-1949
Significant Year: c 1880, 1930
Historic Function: Landscape
Historic Sub-Function: Street furniture, object
Current Function: Landscape
Current Sub-Function: Street furniture, object

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