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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1675 Grand Concourse was designed by Jacob M. Felson in Art Deco style. The apartment building is part of the federal Grand Concourse Historic District. Name: 1675 Grand Concourse Location: 1675 Grand Concourse Year Completed: 1936 Architect: Jacob M. Felson Style: Art Deco National Register of Historic Places: Nomination Form Google Map All images copyright
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1515 Grand Concourse is a neo-Tudor oddity among the many Art Deco landmarks of the Grand Concourse Historic District. Name: Buckingham Court Location: 1515 Grand Concourse Year Completed: 1927 Architect: H.L. Feldman Style: neo-Tudor National Register of Historic Places: Nomination Form Google Map All images copyright © Kenneth Grant / photos taken April 2015 with
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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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1290 Grand Concourse, Berger Court, is a neo-Renaissance apartment building designed by Sommerfeld & Slechler and list in the National Register of Historic Places. Name: Berger Court Location: 1290 Grand Concourse Year Completed: 1923 Architect: Sommerfeld & Slechler Style: neo-Renaissance National Register of Historic Places: Nomination Form Google Map All images copyright © Kenneth Grant
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