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zouave114
April 4th, 2007, 07:45 AM
Hello group. I found this site by Googling the above name. Lorenz Weiher is my great-great grandfather and I've been trying to locate some of the buildings he designed. I saw the article posted here some months ago "Block That Looks as It Did About 1930" post#102 that mentioned a building designed by him--"One door down, at No. 33, is a rambunctious neo-Gothic loft building in white terra cotta, designed by Lorenz Weiher and built in 1916. It could almost be out of a horror mystery by Stephen King, with its spiky, rather threatening, pointed niches and shields; grimacing winged grotesques; and several hunched, straining figures that could be from an Italian Mannerist painting of the 16th century."
Does anyone have a photograph of that building? from the article I'm not quite sure what the address is, but I'd love to know in general how I might go about researching and finding more buildings that survive by my G-G Grandfather. Thanks for any direction!

Jeff in Pearl River :)

ablarc
April 4th, 2007, 07:58 AM
http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12683&highlight=weiher

zouave114
April 8th, 2007, 09:24 PM
Too bad my G-G Grandfather's original design was blown up, it was probably a little bit more, er, tasteful.


Jeff in Pearl River:confused: