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Media Gallery. Born in Saint-Avold, France, Risse graduated from a Christian Brothers school with high honors, immigrating to the United States in 1868 at the age of seventeen and settling in the Bronx. From 1868 to 1869, he surveyed and created maps for the New York and Harlem Railroad. Risse drafted a street map of the town of Morrisania ...
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Name Louis A. Risse Event Type Death Event Date 10 Mar 1925 Event Place Bronx, New York, New York, United States Gender Male Age 74 Marital Status Married Race White Occupation Civil Engineer Birth Date 28 Mar 1850 Birthplace France Burial Date 13 Mar 1925 Cemetery Woodlawn Cemetery Father's Name Nicholas Risse...
17.5 cubic feet (19 boxes) The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence mostly regarding bids, payments, lists of coins sent on approval, and other matters having to do with the buying and selling of coins, including about twelve cubic feet of letters received by the firm S.H. & H. Chapman, still folded and in envelopes, mostly arranged alphabetically by the correspondent’s last ...
Apr 12, 2024 · It was conceived in 1890 by Louis Aloys Risse, a French immigrant and chief topographical engineer of New York City. Since its opening in 1909, it has become “ the Bronx’s most famous street ...
Apr 20, 2009 · What they got in 1909, as designed by engineer Louis Aloys Risse, far exceeded its function, a broad, elegant, tree-lined street lined with art-deco apartment buildings, ornate theaters and shops. Even Yankee Stadium tagged along in 1923.
A French immigrant and life-long civil servant by the name of Louis Aloys Risse was named its Chief Engineer. Risse, who spoke little English and had moved to The Bronx from his native St. Avoid, near the Franco-German border, was a visionary whose ideas earned him the moniker “crazy Frenchman.”. He began designing a “Grand Boulevard ...
2 days ago · Risse’s design was based on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, but on a larger scale. The concourse, which is separated into three roadways, is four miles long and measures 180 feet across.
