The Ardsley is one of a handful of Art Deco apartment buildings on Central Park West – and considered by some to be Emery Roth’s finest Art Deco building, even surpassing his Eldorado, one block south. It’s a sharp departure from the styles Roth used in his other famous Central Park West apartment towers: Alden, […]
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140 Riverside Drive, The Normandy, designed by Emery Roth, is also where the famed architect retired to. The twin-towered building has twin entrances and lobbies on West 86th and West 87th Streets. In its designation report, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission gushed, “The Normandy Apartments is one of the most outstanding apartment buildings on Manhattan’s
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El Dorado (aka The Eldorado*) is among New York’s most fabled apartment buildings – for its celebrity residents as much as for its stunning twin-tower Art Deco architecture. Despite (or because of?) the building’s impressive design, El Dorado (The Golden One) got off to a rocky start – foreclosure following the stock market crash. Though
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1500 Grand Concourse, one of many Jacob M. Felson-designed Art Deco apartment buildings in the Bronx, was built in 1935. Name: 1500 Grand Concourse Location: 1500 Grand Concourse Year Completed: 1935 Architect: Jacob M. Felson Style: Art Deco National Register of Historic Places: Nomination Form Google Map All images copyright © Kenneth Grant / photos
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1295 Grand Concourse, Sagamore Apartments, was designed by Herman M. Cohn. Name: Sagamore Apartments Location: 1295 Grand Concourse Year Completed: 1938 Architect: Herman M. Cohn Style: Art Deco National Register of Historic Places: Nomination Form Google Map All images copyright © Kenneth Grant / photos taken April 2015 with Canon 5D Mark iii
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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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1166 Grand Concourse is an Art Deco landmark designed by Jacob M. Felson. It is part of the Bronx’s Grand Concourse Historic District. Name: 1166 Grand Concourse Location: 1166 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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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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Miller & Rhoads was a preeminent Richmond department store for a century, 1885-1990. The four-story East Broad Street building was added in 1922, expanding the Grace Street building. The then-Italian palazzo style addition was remodeled in 1933-1935 to Art Deco. The landmark department store closed in 1990 and was vacant until 2010, when it was
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