Casa Amadeo, antigua Casa Hernandez | |
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| Location | 786 Prospect Ave., Bronx, New York |
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| Coordinates | 40°49′9″N 73°54′5″W / 40.81917°N 73.90139°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1905 |
| Architect | Meehan, James F. |
| Architectural style | Renaissance |
| NRHP reference No. | 01000244[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 23, 2001 |
Casa Amadeo, antigua Casa Hernández is the oldest, continuously-occupied Latin music store in New York City, and the Bronx, having opened in 1941.[2]
Casa Amadeo is located in a historic apartment building located in the Longwood section of The Bronx, New York. Designed by James F. Meehan, the apartment building was built in 1905 and named The Manhaset. The building is a six-story, Neo-Renaissance style building with commercial storefronts on the first floor. The lower two stories are faced with rusticated stone and the upper floors in red brick. It features a projecting entrance porch flanked by Corinthian order columns.[2] The building is managed by local grassroots organization Banana Kelly, which has rehabilitated and maintained buildings in Longwood since the 1970s.[3][4]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b Kathleen A. Howe (November 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Casa Amadeo, antigua Casa Hernandez". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original on 2012-10-18. Retrieved 2011-01-12. See also: "Accompanying 10 photos". Archived from the original on 2012-10-18. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
- ^ Ricciulli, Valeria (August 20, 2020). "The South Bronx Music Shop That's Surviving on Guitar Sales". The Strategist. New York Magazine. Retrieved October 13, 2020.
- ^ Beekman, Daniel (August 2, 2011). "Will Banana Kelly make blocks more appeeling in South Bronx?". nydailynews.com. Retrieved October 13, 2020.