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Stoyan N. Karastoyanoff

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Stoyan Karastoyanoff
Born
Stoyan Nikolov Karastoyanov

10 December 1870[1]
Died16 July 1931 (aged 61)[2]
Manhattan, New York, USA
NationalityAmerican
Other namesStoyan Kara Stoyanoff
Known forArchitect

Stoyan Nicholas Karastoyanoff, AIA (Bulgarian: Стоян Николов Карастоянов; 10 December 1870 – 16 July 1931) was a Bulgarian-American architect practicing in New York City in the early twentieth century. He immigrated to the United States in 1903. He is best known as the architect of the current Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Church (New York City). In the 1910s he practiced from 114 East 28th Street before moving uptown to 220 Audubon Avenue, Washington Heights, Manhattan, roughly following the concurrent migration of German immigrants there of whom many where his clients.[3]

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  1. ^ New York, U.S., State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794–1943
  2. ^ New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Death Index, 1862–1948
  3. ^ a b c d e Office for Metropolitan History, "Manhattan NB Database 1900-1986," (Accessed 25 Dec 2010).