The entrance to 239 Central Park West is hidden on the side street (West 84th Street), but it’s so elaborate it earned a spot in Andrew Alpern’s Posh Portals: The Entrances to New York’s Grandest Apartment Buildings. Name: 239 Central Park West Location: 239 Central Park West Year Completed: 1925 Architect: Sugarman & Berger, Henry […]
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235 West 76th Street, aka The Colorado, aka Lyonhurst, is a Romanesque Revival design notable for its colorful terra cotta. It is part of the West End-Collegiate Historic District Extension. Name: Colorado, Lyonhurst Location: 235 West 76th Street Year Completed: 1925 Architect: Robert T. Lyons Style: Romanesque Revival NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission: Designation Report Google
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118 West 79th Street, erected in 1925, was designed by Emery Roth in neo-Romanesque style. The brick and terra cotta building is part of the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District. Name: 118 West 79th Street Location: 118 West 79th Street Year Completed: 1925 Architect: Emery Roth Style: neo-Romanesque NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission: Designation
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243 West End Avenue’s owners have revived a former name for the building: Coliseum Plaza. The apartment house was built in 1925 as Hotel Cardinal, an apartment hotel designed by Emery Roth, one of New York’s foremost residential architects. The red brick facade is embellished with elaborate polychrome terra cotta window treatments on the bottom
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