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1930 230 Riverside Drive at 95th
– Ralph Ciluzzi (Kelley Paterno page 287; photo page 289)
1930
333
$1,400,000.00
RIVERSIDE DR, 230 18-sty & pent house apt, 108˙163
OWNER / OWNER ADDRESS
(o) Ciluzzi Constn Corpn., Ralph Ciluzzi, pres / (o) 2010 Bway COMMENTS
ARCHITECT / ARCHITECT ADDRESS
(a) Chas. H. Lench / (a) 110 W 34th (source)
ADDRESS IN REAL ESTATE RECORD:
RIVERSIDE DR, 230
230 Riverside Drive
Date: 1930-1931
NB Number: NB 333-1930
Type: Apartment Building
Architect: Lench, Charles H.
Developer/Owner/Builder: Ciluzzi Construction Corporation
NYC Landmarks Designation: Historic District
Landmark Designation Report: Riverside– West End Historic District Extension II
National Register Designation: N/A
Primary Style: Medieval Revival
Primary Facade: Brick, Stone, and Terra Cotta
Stories: 18 and penthouse
Window Type/Material: Mixed (upper stories); replaced (basement). (Special windows metal casements)
Entrance: With full surround, columns, and carved lintel and details (West) Accessibility ramp with pipe railing (South)
Significant Architectural Features:Stone water table; entrance with full surround, columns, and carved lintel and details; denticulated band course at first story; sill course and diagonal bond brick spandrel with diamond-shaped decoration at second story; molded band course at third story; chamfered corner offset by decorative moldings terminating in griffin gargoyles; bracketed hoods at 13th story; partially denticulated band course at 15th story incorporating bracketed balconette; two-story arcade at 16th and 17th stories with twisted columns; setbacks with denticulated coping; crenelated water tank enclosure with round-arched openings and gargoyles; possibly historic glass canopy at penthouse
Historic District: Riverside-West End Historic District Extension II
Alterations: Windows replaced. Through-wall air conditioners; marquee; first story grilles altered for air conditioners; siamese hose connection; lights; signage; camera; conduit; louvered vents. Non-historic grille altered for air conditioning; vent in wall; metal screen across light court; cables; through-wall air conditioners
Wish List: (source)
New York Herald Tribune (1926-1962); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]. 19 Apr 1931: E2.
LENCH, Charles Harris (1888-1972), a native of Channel, Newfoundland, was born on 5 May 1888 and educated at the Methodist College in St. Johns, Nfld. He spent one year in the office of William F. Butler, and in 1909 he moved to Toronto where he attended courses in architecture sponsored by the Ontario Association of Architects, working simultaneously in the offices of Burke, Horwood & White, and for George W. Gouinlock, assisting him with designs for several pavilions on the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition. In 1912 Lench left Canada and studied architecture at Harvard Univ., Cambridge in 1912-14, and in 1915-16, obtaining a masters degree in 1916. He then worked as a staff architect for Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co. before opening his own office in New York in 1919. His works included designs for churches, schools, auditoriums, clubs and residences, as well as plans for a church in Bonavista, Newfoundland where his father, Rev. Charles Lench, serves as a minister. From 1920 to 1940 he was listed as an architect in New York City (J. Ward, Architects in Practice: New York City 1900-1940, 1989, 47), and he was the author of The Promotion of Commercial Buildings (1932), a reference book on the relationship of the architect to the promotion and financing of income-producing buildings. This publication was based on series of lectures delivered by Lench at the School of Architecture at Columbia University in 1931. In 1947 Lench moved to Florida and continued to practise there. He died at Coral Gables, Florida on 27 June 1972 (death notice Miami News, 29 June 1972, 35; biog. in R. Hibbs, Who’s Who In and From Newfoundland, 1927, 126). (source)
In the Graduate Schools – Lench Conducts First Meeting of New Course for Architects Today – February 8, 1932
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