How would you describe the sense of place when walking through 19thcentury New York City neighborhoods? What qualities are particularly notable?

Walking through the New York City 19^th century, you could see that more than one architectural style were predominant in the city. I believe this represent how different countries architecture are used to be combined into one to give an unique identification to the city.

In this trip, I observed that most of the 19^th centuries houses   attraction is the doors entrances design known as portico. I was surprised to see how the main aesthetic of the houses was the “piano nobile” (the noble floor) main entrance, the facade was very simple and traditional. The developers of high statues buy four lots of properties together to build houses with similar pattern and same architecture style.  A vivid example are the few reddish houses facing the Washington square park has ionic columns and they are made of bricks and stucco; the portico is painted all black and the windows and doors are same height very monumental.  These houses are Greek revival. The material used on these houses exterior decorations design was iron.

Through this trip, I notice that most of the houses in Green villages are made of brick and stucco materials.  The exterior design and the capital are very simple. The Greenwich village feels like been in a different country. I felt very connected with the Italian age architecture been used in this village such as, I feel like if I was walking in Italy because of the exterior design.

When I walked to the Sheridan square street, I see how particular this street is because of the diagonal street open spaces. It intrigued me the strategies used by developers from the 19^th to put these streets together into one functional place for the people regardless the fact that this street wasn’t built with a specific structural grid.

I determined that several places in New York are completely different; the places we visited in this trip truly perform how downtown Manhattan used to look during the 19^th centuries. There was mostly houses and few skyscrapers. The buildings were built  with the most common material used during that time which was  brick, stucco, stone etc. The existing buildings and houses show what architectural styles movements were in fashion back in the 19^th century.