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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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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57 West 75th Street, aka La Rochelle, was built in 1898 to plans drawn by Lamb & Rich. The Renaissance Revival landmark is part of the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District. Name: La Rochelle Location: 57 West 75th Street Year Completed: 1898 Architect: Lamb & Rich Style: Renaissance Revival NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission:
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