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Mar 18, 2009 · Conceived in 1890 as a way of connecting Manhattan to the northern Bronx, the Grand Concourse was designed by Louis Aloys Risse, an Alsatian-born engineer, and opened in November 1909. To honor the centennial of the Grand Concourse, the Bronx Museum of the Arts has organized a yearlong, three-part exhibition. The first installment ...
Not many New Yorkers know Grand Concourse in the Bronx was modeled after the Champs-Elysees in Paris. The Bronx may conjure grittier associations in the American popular imagination, but the bones of visionary Alsatian architect Louis Aloys Risse’s City Beautiful design still stand.
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.
The Bronx may conjure grittier associations in the American popular imagination, but the bones of visionary Alsatian architect Louis Aloys Risse’s City Beautiful design still stand. After the urban decline of the 1970s, once flowering medians are again in bloom, and Art Deco buildings are being restored as the Bronx is revitalized by ...
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...
The company established its reputation with the sale of the Charles Bushnell Collection in 1882, and from 1879 to 1906 it conducted eighty-three auction sales. S.H. was an accomplished photographer, and the company’s catalogs were noted for their photographic plates.
