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11 Middle Neck Road
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Surveyor's Name: Michele Boyd
Date of survey: July/August 2000
Building Address: 11 Middle Neck Road
Block/Lot: 196/41
Building type: Commercial building with stores at ground floor and offices above
Owner's name: 11 Middle Neck Corp.
Building name: Grace Building
Historical name: Grace Building
Date of construction: ca. 1913
Architect: James O’Conner
Building dimensions: 346’ X 127’
No. of floors: Three with attic and basement
Decorative features: Sculptural figure in bronze on west (front) elevation; decorative brickwork
Siding material(s): Brick and stone
Roof style: Hipped with cross-gable and hip-on-gable
Roofing materials: Slate
No. of entrances & placement: Main entrance at Middle Neck Road; entrances to each storefront along Middle Neck Road and Bond Street
Chimneys & placement: Not visible
Architectural integrity: Moderate-High; ground-floor stores refaced and windows replaced
Architectural style: Queen Anne
Description: Modified “L”-shaped, three-story, red brick building with elaborate hipped roof. An octagonal tower at the west elevation has a steeply pitched, conical roof and a frieze of yellow brick. The south and west elevations have large hip-on-gable dormers, smaller hipped dormers, and a cross-gable with a round window in the peak. The south elevation has an additional shed dormer. Windows in the gabled bays appear in multiples. All windows have been replaced. The storefronts have been refaced.
Historical information: This building was restored (at the upper stories) in 1977 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, the same year it was designated a local landmark by the VGNP. It is significant for its association with the Grace family.
Sources:
Irma Lubin and Associates, “Application to the Historical Landmark Commission of the Village of Great Neck Plaza for Landmark District Designation of the Thomaston Building, 8 Bond Street, Great Neck Plaza, N.Y. and the Grace Building, 11 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck Plaza, N.Y.,” 1978 (VGNP Historic Preservation file).
Ellen Cole, Historic and Natural Districts Inventory for Great Neck Plaza (Setauket, N.Y.: Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, 1977), GNP-9 (VGNP Historic Preservation file).
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