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March 6, 2016: CCNY Grotesques

Jonathan L 3/6/164:30 AM

The original buildings at The City College of New York were all gothic style and came with their own sets of grotesques. Grotesques differ from gargoyles in the that they do not have water spouts.

By Selbymay (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Several of CCNY's old gothic buildings have been torn down over the past 20 years and their grotestques have been cataloged and and laid out on a lawn near the School of Architecture there.

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GarryRFTG Guru

"The terra cotta gargoyles (animal-like) and grotesques (humanlike) have chipped and flaked. Some fell from their parapets and smashed into a thousand pieces." - NYTimes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09...ed-city-college.html

3/6/167:07 AM

Jonathan LTG Guru

Thanks for the article Garry. I am planning a longer piece on CCNY and will use the info.

3/6/168:33 AM

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