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Risse, Louis Aloys, 1896-1903 (Chief Top Engineer and Engineer of Concourse, City of New York Commissioner of Street Improvements [and later] Chief Topographical Engineer, Board of Public Improvements, City of New York Topographical Bureau, New York, New York) [ANS Chapman brothers business correspondence] Bookreader Item Preview
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 ...
Aug 14, 2019 · Today we’re taking a stroll down the Grand Concourse, the beautiful and grand boulevard in The Bronx designed by French immigrant Louis Aloys Risse using Paris’ Champs Élysées as his inspiration. 1150 Grand Concourse / Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library.
3 days ago · 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...
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...
May 22, 2020 · The Andrew Freedman Home which takes up several city blocks. Shortly there after some of the most iconic buildings opened like the Concourse Plaza Hotel in 1923 as well as Yankee Stadium that same year, the Andrew Freedman Home in 1924, Loew’s Paradise Theater in 1929, and the Bronx County Courthouse in 1933. First Residents
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 ...
