Authentic 19th Century Victorian, Art Deco, Gargoyles, Keystones, Panels, Corbels and related Architectural Sculptures.

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Welcome to my new domain urbansculptures.com which better reflects the scope of my work, you should update your older bookmarks now to: http://www.urbansculptures.com Lostnewyorkcity.com was sidelined and simply redirects visitors to this new domain.
This unique and growing collection consists of hand-cast architectural sculptures based exclusively upon, and modelled after Victorian and Art Deco decorative pieces which were commonly used on 19th and early 20th century building facades in New York City.

Smaller scaled Victorian elements were used to decorate the facades of tenements in Harlem, on the Lower East side of Manhattan, and The Bronx from around 1880 to the 1910s, while large scaled ornaments decorated hotels, office buildings and larger high-rise apartment buildings built in the 1920's era.


An estimated 100,000 tenements were built to house the waves of newly arriving immigrants. Perhaps half have been destroyed by demolition, urban renewal, arson, and abandonment.

Most of the copyrighted designs for sale here were created by Randall from compilations of photos and personal experience as a life-long gargoyle collector, salvager and professional sculptor.

As a sculptor I specialize exclusively in Victorian and Art Deco architectural ornaments, with a focus on absolute historical authenticity in every aspect.

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A custom corbel townhouse restoration project in St. Louis Missouri with photos.
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PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY OF 19th CENTURY BUILDINGS DESTROYED IN THE 1970'S

This section documents the destruction of many of New York City's 19th century tenement and other buildings, so that we can mourn the lost, appreciate the endangered, and take steps to ensure that other significant architecture doesn't follow the same fate as Stanford White's Pennsylvania Station.

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All the images on this site are copyright, permissions to re-use any of them is as simple as an e-mail request for personal use, for uses that involve commercial, for-profit or multiple copies there may be a nominal use fee.

Never be ashamed of anything you make, just be ashamed of the things you havn't madeLHOTP season 5, 1979

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Since April 14th 1999. Last updated on Nov 27th, 2008