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Not actually the roof of a home for the blind: See Notes Under

Thanks for tracking down the likely site and story behind the roof garden. We'll add information to this and related images when we next update.

NYT of July 13, 1914 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70F1FFA3F5E13738... describes a garden created for the blind on the roof of the new United States Bank Building on Delancey St.

Oddly, there is another NYT article from the week before which seems to be describing the same event, only at the Bank of the United States Building at 77 Delancey Street.
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D05E3DF1038E633A...
The story of the Bank and its founder Joseph S. Marcus "a Jewish immigrant to the United States. Born in the town of Telz in Germany in 1862, he went to school in Essen and immigrated to the United States at the age of 17 and worked his way up from being a tailor, to a garment industry business, to a banker. He founded the Public Bank in 1906 and the Bank of United States in 1913" is an interesting one.
It was Marcus who created and donated this rooftop garden.
The Bank was the first to collapse at the onset of the Great Depression.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_United_States

The Bank's first building at 77 Delancey Street, from 1914, has obviously seen better days:

Thanks, swanq and artolog, for tracking down the likely site of the roof garden and offering the updates. We'll add information to this and related images when we next update.

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Lady Lavarack was the wife of Queensland Govenor,Sir John Lavarack "Lieutenant-General Sir John Lavarack has been appointed Governor of Queensland, in succession to Sir Leslie Wilson. The new Governor is a Queenslander, born in Brisbane 60 years ago. He has had a distinguished military career, and is regarded as one of Australia's best generals. He returned recently from Washington, U.S.A., where he was the head of the Australian Military Mission; he was also a member of the Far East Commission. Sir John will leave the Army on September 15, and will take up his new duties soon after that. Lady Lavarack (formerly Miss Sybil Ockiltree) whom he married in 1912, is the daughter of a Ballarat doctor. They have three sons, all professional men. The eldest, Dr. John Lavarack, is on the medical staff of Melbourne University. All three served in the war. Sir John Lavarack has five brothers and two sisters all living in Queensland. The original home of their parents was at Julia Creek. Mr. Frank Cooper remains Lieutenant-Governor. From the Worker newspaper 2 Sep 1946 nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71428509