May 2019

What does 519 Main Street, at the prominent corner of Main Street and Memorial Plaza, have in common with the 81 Centre Artist Studios, Talner’s Jewelry, the Curtain Shop and the “Palace” buildings? Just look up. They all boast fine architectural terra cotta details. Look up, and you’ll see an abundance of the glazed ceramics

“Banks are symbols of power, money, security and conservatism: their image, therefore, can be expected to be strong in terms of design. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when many Unite States banking institutions got their start, they were more locally oriented than at present…they were usually single-unit enterprises created by local individuals.

Since 1927 New Rochelle children have been walking through the doors of 510 Main Street to buy their seasonal wardrobes. Unlike any other Main Street store, founded by Herman Liebman and his partner, Herman Pinals, Liebman’s has been in its same location for almost 70 years. The building itself evokes a wonderful sense of time,

When Lou Gehrig shopped at I.B. Cohen’s, in the early 1930s, he had Nat Cohen make suits from material Gehrig had purchased while playing exhibition games in Japan. Each suit cost the famous Yankee $32.00. At the same time- and years before- artist Norman Rockwell bought his clothes here. Many other celebrities, CEOs, and area

(Now the Curtain Shop and General Store)541 Main Street History of the Building This brick building replaced an earlier one that had been destroyed by fire on January 27, 1897. Just 10 months later, William Weisskpof had completed a new, bigger and better building for his “resort” enterprise—an entertainment center in the heart of New

565 Main Street Leonard Italiano would be amazed by the vast and prestigious selection of jewelry, crystal, china and other fine gifts that fills the Main Street store at the corner of Centre Avenue. Italiano was one New Rochelle’s premier jewelers – first working door-to-door and then in an upstairs store on Mechanic Street (now