RARE The Met Fifth Ave Store Bookends American Wing Bank Facade Building 7\" Tall for Sale

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RARE The Met Fifth Ave Store Bookends American Wing Bank Facade Building 7\" Tall For Sale

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RARE The Met Fifth Ave Store Bookends American Wing Bank Facade Building 7\" Tall:
$42.00

Here is a unique bookend pair from The Met Store discontinued in the 1990\'s.

The 7\" tall bookends are a reproduction of a New York City bank building designed by architect Martin Euclid Thompson (1786-1877). It is in the Greek Revival-style of architecture from the first half of the 19th century.

Here, however, in his earliest known design, the Greek influence in minimal.

The two-story, seven-bay facade of the Branch Bank of the United States, its projecting center section capped by a pediment, directly followed in the mid-eighteenth-century English Palladian tradition. Only the Ionic capitals and some of the cornice moldings are of Greek inspiration.

The building was located on the north side of Wall Street, between Nassau and William streets (NYC).

In the1850s, it was converted into the United States Assay Office. The building was demolished in 1915, but the facade was saved, relocated, and, reconstructed in 1924 where it stands today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It is as the indoor entrance of the museum\'s American Wing of the exhibits.

See pictures, please. The books are NOT included. Thank you.