1227 Grand Concourse, part of the Grand Concourse Historic District, was built in 1937 to plans of William Shary. Name: 1227 Grand Concourse Location: 1227 Grand Concourse Year Completed: 1937 Architect: William Shary Style: Art Deco National Register of Historic Places: Nomination Form Google Map All images copyright © Kenneth Grant / photos taken April […]
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1188 Grand Concourse is an Art Deco landmark designed by Jacob M. Felson. It is part of the Bronx’s Grand Concourse Historic District. Name: 1188 Grand Concourse Location: 1188 Grand Concourse Year Completed: 1938 Architect: Jacob M. Felson Style: Art Deco NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission: Designation Report National Register of Historic Places: Nomination Form Google
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900 Grand Concourse, Concourse Plaza, was designed as a hotel by Maynicke & Franke. It is now apartments in the Grand Concourse Historic District. Name: Concourse Plaza Location: 900 Grand Concourse Year Completed: 1923 Architect: Maynicke & Franke Style: Colonial Revival NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission: Designation Report National Register of Historic Places: Nomination Form Google
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860 Grand Concourse, designed by Charles Kremborg, is an Art Deco landmark of the Grand Concourse Historic District. Name: 860 Grand Concourse Location: 860 Grand Concourse Year Completed: 1941 Architect: Charles Kremborg Style: Art Deco NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission: Designation Report National Register of Historic Places: Nomination Form Google Map All images copyright © Kenneth
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Noonan Plaza Apartments, designed by Horace Ginsbern and Marvin Fine, are Art Deco landmarks in the Highbridge section of The Bronx. Name: Noonan Plaza Apartments Location: 105-149 West 168th Street, 1231-1245 Nelson Avenue, 1232-1244 Ogden Avenue Year Completed: 1931 Architect: Horace Ginsbern and Marvin Fine Style: Art Deco NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission: Designation Report Google
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1212 Grand Concourse, an Art Deco apartment building, was erected in 1937 to plans by Horace Ginsbern. It is the northernmost structure of the Grand Concourse Historic District. Name: 1212 Grand Concourse Location: 1212 Grand Concourse Year Completed: 1937 Architect: Horace Ginsbern Style: Art Deco NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission: Designation Report National Register of Historic
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Ginter House was built in 1892 as the residence of Lewis Ginter, a transplanted northern entrepreneur who made Richmond his home after the Civil War. Harvey L. Page and William Winthrop Kent designed the mansion with elements of Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne styles. Ginter’s niece, Grace Arents, inherited the property in 1897. From 1924
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Chesterfield Apartments, built in 1903 as luxury residences – and Richmond’s first high-rise apartment building – is now occupied mostly by VCU students. The landmark building is part of the West Franklin Street Historic District. The building’s distinctive features are stone sills and flat-arch lintels on all windows, 10 oriel projections, an Ionic-columned portico, and
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Prestwould Condominiums is a limestone-trimmed brick high-rise designed by Alfred C. Bossom and erected in 1928. Now condominiums, the Jacobean Revival building has a crenelated tower, gables, and oriels. Prestwould overlooks the northeast edge of Monroe Park and is part of the Monroe Park Historic District. Name: Prestwould Condominiums Location: 612 West Franklin Street Year
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Johnson Hall was built in 1915 as the Monroe Terrace Apartments, designed by Alfred C. Bossom in neo-Gothic style. Now used as a dormitory by Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), it was excluded from the overlapping Monroe Park Historic District and the Western Franklin Street Historic District. The building’s crown has been drastically simplified from the
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