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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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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480 Park Avenue, The Antoinettes, is one of those buildings that makes a non-architect wonder: Why is so much decoration put so high, where no one can see it? Modest decoration appears on the three-story base; but at the 13th floor and above, there’s a proliferation of terra cotta. Garlands, grotesques, medallions, dentil and egg-and-dart
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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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225 Central Park West, Alden, was designed by Emery Roth in neo-Renaissance style, and erected in 1926. Name: Alden Location: 225 Central Park West Year Completed: 1926 Architect: Emery Roth Style: neo-Renaissance NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission: Designation Report Wikipedia: Central Park West Historic District City Realty: Carter Horsley review Google Map All images copyright ©
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The Beresford is among the most celebrated creations of one of New York’s most celebrated architects, Emery Roth. The building’s 200-foot-square, 22-story mass is highly visible, its three towers permanently etched in the skyline – the view protected by Central Park to the east and the American Museum of Natural History to the south. Beresford
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San Remo is one of the high points – literally and figuratively – of the Central Park West skyline, and of the career of architect Emery Roth. The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) gushed that the building “…epitomizes Roth’s ability to combine the traditional with the modern, an urbane amalgam of luxury and convenience, decorum
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2 Sutton Place South is an Emery Roth-designed cooperative apartment building with unique corner porte cochere. Name: 2 Sutton Place South Location: 2 Sutton Place South Year Completed: 1938 Architect: Emery Roth City Realty: Carter Horsley review Google Map All images copyright © Kenneth Grant / photos taken 2014, 2018 with Canon 5D Mark iii,
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Hotel des Artistes was conceived as an apartment hotel, owned by and designed for artists, to incorporate studio space. Almost the entire north side of West 67th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue was developed with the same idea. Name: Hotel des Artistes Location: 1 West 67th Street Year Completed: 1918 Architect: George
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One of the city’s few remaining “bachelor flats” buildings, built at a time when unmarried men were considered less-desirable as tenants. Like other apartment hotels, the individual units had no kitchens. Residents were expected to take their meals in the eighth floor dining room. The building’s stonework is unusual in that each spandrel is unique.
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