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While You're Returning Holiday Gifts...by Gabrielle Birkner
At this time of year, visitors to Lord & Taylor on Fifth Avenue, between 38th and 39th streets, are likely to take in the decorative holiday windows — or to take back holiday gifts that were perhaps a little too snug. But in his "Abroad in New York" column in Thursday's edition of the Sun, architecture critic Francis Morrone urges shoppers to take a look at the remarkable landmark structure that is home to the famed store, which was founded as a Lower East Side dry-goods shop in 1826. ... Mr. Morrone traces the emergence of New York's department stores, including Lord & Taylor. He recalls that when the store's current Midtown home was erected nearly a century ago, the utilitarian design by the architects Starrett & Van Vleck was a departure from other grand-looking department stores in the area. "While the midsection bears little artistic elaboration, the top is a fine composition of engaged columns visually supporting a glorious cornice," Mr. Morrone writes. "If Starrett & Van Vleck chose to eschew the palazzo form, they weren't about to violate the avenue's claim to architectural glory."
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