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Completed in 1908 by York and Sawyer, the New-York Historical Society’s classical, Roman Eclectic style building, on Central Park West, has long been known as a “bunker”—its elegant yet severe granite façade fails to extend a warm welcome to visitors and passersby. Though limited in the changes it could make because of a 1966 landmark designation, the Society aims to alter the building’s imposing aura through a $65 million makeover led by Platt Byard Dovell White Architects.
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