Mechanics celebrate 218 years.The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesman that has contributed greatly to the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's building history celebrated its 218th anniversary this month. In 1785, 22 artisans and craftsmen founded The General Society as a charitable organization This article is about charitable organizations. For other uses of the word charity, see Charity. A charitable organization (also known as a charity) is an organization with charitable purposes only. to provide educational, cultural, and social services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales to members and their families. "We were formed by individuals in and of the trades to ensure the survival of members of those trades," said Luca Valentino, president of the General Society, at the anniversary gala Nov. 13. "Many individuals, who have made history in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. during this period were also members of the General Society." Some of the more well-known members include Stephen Allen, Andrew Carnegie, Peter Cooper, Robert Fulton, Andrew Hagstrom, James Harper, Abram Hewitt, Jacob Lorillard, and Duncan Phyfe, who were craftsmen, politicians, industrialists, and inventors. Along with celebrating its anniversary the General Society also accepted a landmark designation plaque from Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the New York City's Landmarks Preservation Committee for the facade of the building it has called home since 1899. The building, at 20 West 44th Street, was designed by Lamb and Rich Hugh Lamb and Charles Alonzo Rich were partners in the New York City architecture firm of Lamb & Rich, which operated from 1880 to 1899. Some of the buildings they designed that are known today are "Sagamore Hill," Theodore Roosevelt's country house in Oyster Bay, Architects in 1890 and built for the Berkeley Military School. It was expanded in 1903 through a girl from Andrew Carnegie. A neo-classical structure clad with limestone, yellow Roman brick and terra-cotta, includes an exterior frieze frieze, in architecture, the member of an entablature between the architrave and the cornice or any horizontal band used for decorative purposes. In the first type the Doric frieze alternates the metope and the triglyph; that of the other orders is plain or reproduced from a portion of the Parthenon taken from casts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
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