Astor Apartments The original owner was William Waldorf Astor, who the AIA Guide describes as a major landowner in this community. The building is described as bland but handsome, and the copper cornice is both potent and elegant. Block 1167 / Lot 11 2141-57 Broadway @ 75 th St. Built: 1905; Addition to North in 1914 Architect: Clinton & Russell (original) and addition by Peabody, Nilson, & Brown
Proposed RSD-West 80-81 st Streets HD extension The AIA Guide makes mention of this Roman brick row house s richly intricate form roofs, dormers, chimney pots, finials, and colonettes. Block 1890 / Lot 47 307-309 West 82 nd Street nominated by FAB Built: ca. 1892 Architect: not yet known
West Side Republican Club Stern says of this building in New York 1900 that it is an elegant American Georgian design, built of light pink wash brick. In the tradition of political clubs, it more resembled that of Harvard s club than that of Tammany s on West 14 th Street. Block / Lot Broadway b/w 83 rd and 84 th Streets Built: not yet known Architect: J.A. Schweinfurth
2322 Broadway Morris Bros. Home to Morris Brothers store for the past 27 years. With their departure, it is understood that a national chain store(s) is/are being solicited to fill the vacancy. Block / Lot 2322 Broadway @ 84 th Street Built: Architect:
508 & 510 West End Avenue Heralded by New York 1900 as, the most significant exemplars of the Dutch Revival Day s houses were unique for their combination of precisely observed historical details and picturesque massing; they represented the Composite Era yet simultaneously looked back to the romantic Cosmopolitanism in which the West End s architecture was steeped. * Matching houses can be found at 514 West End Avenue (photos not yet available). Photo from New York 1900 Block / Lot West End avenue b/w 84 th and 85 th Streets Built: 1894 Architect: Frank Miles Day
Bretton Hall A former hotel with one of the most vigorous Beaux Arts facades along Broadway, Bretton Hall shares its architect with other hotels on B way, such as the Cumberland, the Thomas Jefferson and Spencer Arms hotels. Recent rehab work includes a new replacement cornice designed by architect John C. Calderon. Block 1233 / Lot 16 2342 Broadway @ 85 th Street Built: 1903 Architect: Harry Mulliken
Proposed RSD-WEA Historic District extension Proposed new building would cause these rowhouses to be demolished. West End Avenue, west side between 85 th -86 th Street Built: not yet known Architects: not yet known
272-280 West 86 th Street Block / Lot 272-280 West 86 th Street b/w West End and B way Built: not yet known Architect: not yet known
330 West 86 th Street 330 West 86 th Need Photos Beyond documentation as the subject of recent legal action concerning tenants development intentions and the intent of the City s UDAAP process, the history this building remains unknown. Block / Lot 330 West 86 th Street b/w West End and Riverside Built: not yet known Architect: not yet known
Ballet Hispanico Originally carriage houses, this Romanesque revival structure was rehabilitated in 1989 by Buck & Cane to serve as the home of the minority-oriented dance group. The AIA Guide declares it to be modest, but the arch is enough. Block / Lot 167-169 West 89 th Street @ Amsterdam Avenue Built: 1892 Architect: Frank Rooke
Holy Name of Jesus Church As Upper West Side settlement extended North along the Bloomingdale Road in the 19 th century, a cluster of houses had grown around St. Michael's Episcopal Church (1805) at 99 th St. Called Bloomingdale Village, and the settlement s nearest Catholic services were at St. Paul the Apostle (1858) on 59 th St. or Annunciation (1853) on 131 st St. By 1867 the Catholic community of the Bloomingdale Village wanted a church of their own, and began appealing to the Archdiocese of New York City for a pastor to establish a parish. The structure they commissioned is built of richly carved pink Milford granite, with beautiful Munich stained glass windows. The AIA Guide describes the building as having a forbidding Gothic Revival façade, but that it is more pleasing within, particularly its hammer-beamed ceiling and roof. Block 1868 / Lot 29 740 Amsterdam Avenue @ 96 th Street Built: 1898 Architect: T.H. Poole
RNA House According to New York 1960, the RNA House "housed 208 families in a structure reminiscent of I.M. Pei's Kips Bay Plaza. Although the building's front was described by Norval White and Elliot Willensky as a concrete beehive of a façade, it rather effectively honored the wall of this important crosstown street, despite being slightly set back from the building." Block 1226 / Lot 45 150-160 W. 96 th St b/w Col. and Amst. Built: 1967 Architect: Edelbaum & Webster
New Amsterdam AIA Guide says concrete balconies, private with cheek walls, exposed concrete floor slabs, and floor-tofloor window assemblies, contribute to a better-thanaverage effort. Block 1226 733 Amsterdam Avenue @ 96 th Street Built: 1971 Architect: Gruzen & Partners