Casa Amadeo, antigua Casa Hernandez
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Casa Amadeo, antigua Casa Hernandez is a historic apartment
building containing a noted record shop
located in the Longwood
section of The Bronx, New York, New York
. It was built in 1905 and named the Manhaset apartment building. It 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. The building houses the Casa Amadeo music store, the oldest, continuously-occupied Latin music store in the Bronx having opened in 1941.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 2001.
Apartment
An apartment or flat is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building...
building containing a noted record shop
Record shop
A record shop or record store is an outlet that sells recorded music. Although vinyl records and audio cassettes are no longer sold in the majority of music stores, in favour of compact discs and home video recordings products, people in some countries, like the UK, still use the term "record...
located in the Longwood
Longwood, Bronx
Longwood is a low income residential neighborhood geographically located in the southwest Bronx, New York City. The neighborhood is part of Bronx Community Board 2. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise are: East 167th Street to the north, the Bronx River & the Bruckner...
section of The Bronx, New York, New York
New York City
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. It was built in 1905 and named the Manhaset apartment building. It 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
Corinthian order
The Corinthian order is one of the three principal classical orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. The other two are the Doric and Ionic. When classical architecture was revived during the Renaissance, two more orders were added to the canon, the Tuscan order and the Composite order...
columns. The building houses the Casa Amadeo music store, the oldest, continuously-occupied Latin music store in the Bronx having opened in 1941.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 2001.