3D print The Ansonia
A free, printable model of The Ansonia, with its corner turrets and mansard roof, and the buildings and streets around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About The Ansonia
Manhattan's Upper West Side is home to the Ansonia, at 2109 Broadway between 73rd Street and 74th Street. Its 17 stories are in the Beaux-Arts style. Developer William Earle Dodge Stokes built it as a residential hotel between 1899 and 1903, naming it after his grandfather, Anson Greene Phelps, an industrialist. French architect Paul Emile Duboy drew up the plans; Stokes modified them later.
Limestone, granite, white brick and terracotta make up the facade, decorated with grilles and scrollwork in the Louis XVI style, which earned the building the nickname "Wedding Cake" in its neighborhood. Corner turrets topped with cupolas, light courts down each side, and a convex mansard roof three stories high shape the silhouette. The building is roughly 200 feet (61 m) square in plan, an irregular H, so each room gets as much daylight as the layout allows.
The restaurants were dedicated in February 1903, and the hotel formally opened on April 16, 1904. It generated its own power and filtered its own air in dedicated plants, and it also had pneumatic tubes and cooling pipes. Louis XIV style decoration filled the public rooms. The building became a condominium in 1992 and has 425 apartments. It is designated a New York City landmark and appears in the National Register of Historic Places.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 19 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 24 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 30 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Cupolas, dormers and finials
- The corner turrets carry cupolas and the mansard roof is studded with ornate dormers. Print friendly adapts the smallest ones; Full detail on a larger print keeps them, and layers of 0.12 mm help.
- Fine balconies on the facade
- Rows of thin balconies and window frames run down the walls. A larger print size keeps them from merging, and slow printing keeps the edges clean.
- One piece with the ground
- The Ansonia is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Ansonia takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Ansonia is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a The Ansonia STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Ansonia grows with the print: about 19 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
