51 West 81st Street, aka The Galaxy, was erected in 1905. It was designed by Frederick C. Brown in Beaux-Arts style. The building is part of the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District. Name: Galaxy Location: 51 West 81st Street Year Completed: 1905 Architect: Frederick C. Brown Style: Beaux-Arts NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission: Designation […]
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45 West 81st Street was built in 1922, designed by Sugarman & Hess in neo-Moorish/Spanish Renaissance style. The building is part of the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District. Name: Excelsior Hotel, Standish Hall Location: 45 West 81st Street Year Completed: 1922 Architect: Sugarman & Hess Style: neo-Moorish/Spanish Renaissance NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission: Designation
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35 West 81st Street, aka Orvista, was built in 1914. It was designed by Neville & Bagge in the neo-Renaissance style. The building is part of the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District. Name: Orvista Location: 35 West 81st Street Year Completed: 1914 Architect: Neville & Bagge Style: neo-Renaissance NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission: Designation
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25 West 81st Street, erected in 1908, was designed by Gronenberg & Leuchtag in neo-Romanesque style. It is part of the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District. Name: 25 West 81st Street Location: 25 West 81st Street Year Completed: 1908 Architect: Gronenberg & Leuchtag Style: Romanesque NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission: Designation Report NY Times:
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11 West 81 Street was erected in 1908. It was designed by Schickel & Ditmars in Beaux-Arts style, and is part of the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District. The building is directly across the street from Rose Center for Earth and Space – formerly known as the Hayden Planetarium. Name: Hayden House Location:
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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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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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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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