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1923 875 West End Avenue
Featured in Andrew Alpern’s book The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter page 338
Located in Riverside – West End Historic District Extension II designated 23 June 2015
Architect Rosario Candela; Builder 875 West End Avenue Corporation 2067 Broadway Ralph Ciluzzi President; Alexander McRae Treasurer – Southwest corner 103rd Street (Alpern Acanthus page 338)
WEST END AVENUE DOCUMENTATION Survey 2008
Address: 875 West End Avenue, southwest corner West 103rd Street
Block / Lot: 1890/24
NB Number: 557-23 Date: 1923
Original Use: Apartment House No. of units: 105
Stories: 15 Height: 175’
Estimated Cost: $1,200,000
Façade Materials: main material brick base limestone lower floors limestone trim terra cotta cornice metal
Structure: steel
Original Owner: 875 West End Avenue Corporation, Ralph Ciluzzi, owner, 2067 Broadway
Architect: Rosario Candela, 200 West 72nd Street
Landmark Status: None
Comments: This Italian Renaissance inspired building was designed with 105 apartments ranging from three to seven rooms. The lower stories are faced with rusticated limestone, while the upper floors are red brick with white terra-cotta trim. The terra cotta was provided by the Federal Terra Cotta Company. The building is entered through a shallow projecting entry with two-story Doric pilasters. Ralph Ciluzzi’s initials are carved into a cartouche above the entry.
Bibliography: Alpern Andrew, The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter (New York: Acanthus Press, 2001), 338-39. “New West End Avenue Project Appraised at $1,831,650,” Real Estate Record and Builders Guide 113 (8 March 1924): 11. “Unusual Building Activity Throughout West End Avenue,” Real Estate Record and Builders Guide 112 (17 November 1923): 617. (source)
The brick and limestone building was designed by Rosario Candela. It was erected in 1923–1924, and features marble floors, stained glass windows and ornate ceilings and moldings in the lobby. An advertisement in The New York Times of September 7, 1924 called it “The House with 1,500 Windows,” and boasted it was the “largest and most modern on the West Side.” From 875 West End building website 875westend.com
New York Herald Tribune (1926-1962); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]. 16 May 1943: C1.
