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1923 240 West End Avenue
Featured in Andrew Alpern’s book The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter page 322
NB 646-1923
West 71st Street, 278-282
15-sty bk apt, 60×80
Cost:
$650,000
Owner:
280 W. 71st St. Corp, 155 W 72
Architect:
Rosario Candela, 200 W 72
Address in Real Estate Record:
71ST ST, 278-82 W
Located in West End – Collegiate Historic District Extension designated 25 June 2013
Architect Rosario Candela; Builder 280 West 71st Corporation 155 West 72nd Street; Joseph F. Faiella President; Anthony J. Romagna Secretary – Southeast corner 71st Street (Alpern Acanthus page 322)
WEST END AVENUE DOCUMENTATION Survey 2008
Address: 240 West End Avenue, southeast corner West 71st Street
Block / Lot: 1162/63
NB Number: 646-23 Date: 1923
Original Use: Apartment House No. of units: 62
Stories: 16 Height : 160’
Estimated Cost: $650,000
Façade Materials: main material brick
base brick lower floors brick
trim limestone/terra cotta cornice n/a
Structure: steel
Original Owner: 280 West 71st Street Corporation, 155 West 72nd Street, Joseph F. Faiella, president
Architect: Rosario Candela, 200 West 72nd Street
Landmark Status: None
Comments: Candela designed a red brick Neo-Classical building for this corner site. The entrance is flanked by fluted Corinthian pilasters. There is modest limestone trim on the lowest three floors and terra cotta above. A long balcony on the fifteenth story is detailed with urns, garlands, and blind fans. Candela designed the building with sixty-two one- and two-bedroom apartments, four per floor.
Bibliography: Alpern, Andrew, The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter (New York: Acanthus Press, 2001), 322-23. (source)
240 West End Avenue building website 240westend.com
