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Architect: Blum And Blum

February 27, 2014 by Andy

Projects:

840 Park Avenue (1912)
929 Park Avenue (1913)
555 Park Avenue (1913)

Adlon – 200 West 54th Street (1913)
120 West 86th Street (1912)
166 West 72nd Street (1911)
Gramont Annex – 207 West 98th Street (1911)
Aljomar – 828 Seventh Avenue (1913)
105 West 72nd Street (1913)
The Beaumont – 730 Riverside Drive (1913)
The Dallieu – 838 West End Avenue (1912)
The Andrew Jackson – 720 Riverside Drive (1912)
780 West End Avenue (1914)
The Vauxhall – 780 Riverside Drive (1914)
138 East 36th Street (1916)
144 East 36th Street (1916)
College Heights – 500 West 140th Street (1916)
101 East 74th Street (1916)
75 Fort Washington Avenue (1914)
156 East 79th Street (1915)
183 Vermilyea Avenue (1916)
879 West 180th Street (1915)
145 East 49th Street (1916)
201 West 54th Street

Filed Under: Architects Tagged With: Architects, George & Edward Blum, Park Avenue

Architect: J E R Carpenter

February 4, 2014 by Andy

Projects:
960 Park Avenue (1912)
246 West End Avenue (1913)
3 East 85th Street (1913)
635 Park Avenue (1914)
640 Park Avenue (1914)
907 Fifth Avenue (1916)
630 Park Avenue (1917)
550 Park Avenue (1917)
115 East 82nd Street (1921)
4 East 66th Street / 845 Fifth Avenue (1920)
950 Park Avenue (1921)
30 Central Park South (1921)
145 East 52nd Street (1921)
920 Fifth Avenue (1922)
1148 Fifth Avenue (1923)
1143 Fifth Avenue (1923)
1060 Park Avenue (1924)
4 East 95th Street (1924)
580 Park Avenue (1923)
620 Park Avenue (1924)
655 Park Avenue (1924)
1150 Fifth Avenue (1924)
145 East 73rd Street (1925)
455 East 51st Street (1924)
1030 Fifth Avenue (1925)
1120 Fifth Avenue (1925)
610 Park Avenue (1925)
173 – 175 Riverside Drive (1927)
1165 Fifth Avenue (1926)
1170 Fifth Avenue (1926)
1035 Fifth Avenue (1926)
1115 Fifth Avenue (1926)
988 Fifth Avenue (1926)
810 Fifth Avenue (1926)
112 Central Park South (1927)
170 East 79th Street (1926)
950 Fifth Avenue (1927)
825 Fifth Avenue (1927)
812 Park Avenue (1927)
1060 Fifth Avenue (1928)
14 East 90th Street (1929)
625 Park Avenue (1929)
1 East 88th Street / 1070 Fifth Avenue (1929)

Filed Under: Architects Tagged With: Architects, Fifth Avenue, JER Carpenter, Park Avenue, Rosario Candela

840 Park Avenue

February 5, 2013 by Andy

Completed in 1912 by the architectural team of George and Edward Blum, the building is relatively short in stature, reaching only 12 stories with 18 units. Designed in the neo Italian renaissance style, most of the building is clad in limestone, although the very top of the façade is terra cotta, balanced symmetrically along both faces are iron balconies. Elegant central arched entryway with foliate keystone. The top story crowned by cornice and round arched panels has some very beautiful detail work.

It’s noteworthy that The Blum’s also designed the building right across on 76th, 830 Park Avenue, which is lightyears different from 840, offers a nice contrast and illustrates the Blum’s design range.

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Filed Under: Park Avenue Tagged With: George & Edward Blum, Italian Renaissance, Park Avenue

800 Park Avenue

February 2, 2013 by Andy

800 Park is an odd paradox, it is a gorgeous building with some amazingly unique brickwork, yet there is little written about it on other websites or in any of the usual architectural archives (Columbia). It was built in 1924 by The Starrett Brothers, the architects / designers were Electus Litchefield & Pliny Rogers. The building has 15 stories with one apartment per floor, the main entryway is on Park Avenue where it has a generous 120 feet of frontage, moderately thin lot of only 44 feet on 74th street. Design-wise 800 Park probably best fits in with the neo Italian renaissance style. There is a three story gracious although simple limestone base, the fourth floor and the thirteenth floor each have checkered brickwork on an otherwise unadorned façade.

A really beautiful building that is eye catching from the street, and not nearly enough information on, I’d like to keep an eye out on this one, to revisit and add to this as maybe more can be discovered.

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Filed Under: Park Avenue Tagged With: Litchefield & Rogers, Park Avenue, Starrett Brothers

778 Park Avenue

January 21, 2013 by Andy

778 Park Avenue is the twin sitting side by side across 73rd street from 770 Park, both on the west side of the street, mimicking each other and their design, both buildings were designed by Rosario Candela. 778 was completed in 1931, at a height of 18 stories, with 18 apartments.

778 is another Georgian style building, although has a much richer façade than its earlier twin to the south. The base is a four story limestone pedestal with a linear first floor of larger “blocks”, the third through the fourth floors are smoother, three ornately flourished pediments, regularly spaced swags and medallion decorations. From the fifth floor up the remainder of the building is clad in red brick. Once again, as with 770, at the twelfth floor the façade falls back in to a series of setbacks culminating in a central tower.

If those who chose to call a place home means anything to its quality, notable residents of 778 Park were Brooke Astor (Mrs. Astor had a 14 room duplex on the 15th and 16th floor) and more recently Vera Wang, before she moved to her father’s apartment at 740 Park, William F. Buckley Jr, Mark and Renee Rockefeller and Zygmunt and Audrey Wilf.

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Filed Under: Park Avenue Tagged With: Neo-Georgian, Park Avenue, Rosario Candela

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