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- ↑ "Building News: New York" The American Architect and Building News , July 29, 1908, p.17, Contained in The American Architect and Building News, Vol. XCIV: July to December 1908 (New York)
- ↑ ”Communication: By Mr. Franklin B. Ware, New York State Architect, Addressed to the Board of Awards, New Sing Sing Prison Competition: Illustrations” The American Architect and Building News , July 15, 1908, p.23, Contained in The American Architect and Building News, Vol. XCIV: July to December 1908 (New York)
- ↑ "Fulton Monument Awards, Prizes Given to Architects Winning Preliminary Contest." New York Times July 7, 1910 (Retrieved 25 April 2011) Filed in “PLAN TO CALL OUT 3,000 MORE STRIKERS; Union Ready to Punish Manu- facturers Who Have Been Do- ing Non-Union Work Secretly”, Excerpted: “....The successful contestants are Charles P. Huntingtoh, Mills & Greenleaf. Lawrence F. Feck, j J-I. Freedlander, Bosworth & Holden, and Harold Van Buren....”
- ↑ See also ”Vitrified Clay Curbing Selected for Streets and Roads – Fulton Memorial, Water Gate”, Engineering News , Vol. 63: No. 2, p.44 (January 13, 1910)
- ↑ See also Fourteenth Annual Report of the New York State Commission of Prisons for the Year of 1908: Transmitted to the Legislature February 23, 1909 p.42.
- ↑ ”Projected Buildings: Borough of Manhattan: South of 14th Street,” Vol. 80, No. 2066: Page 614; in Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide Vol 80, No. 2051 (July 6, 1907) to No. 2076 (Dec. 28, 1907), (New York, F. W. Dodge Corp.),
- ↑ Office for Metropolitan History, "Manhattan NB Database 1900-1986," (Accessed 15 Apr 2011).
- ↑ Original plans in possession of current owner.