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1922 878 West End Avenue
Featured in Andrew Alpern’s book The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter page 340
NB 310-1922
West End Avenue, 874-878
15-sty bk apart house, 60×70
Cost:
$500,000
Owner:
878 West End Ave Corpn, 2050 Amsterdam av
Architect:
Rosario Candela, 200 W 72d [72nd]
Address in Real Estate Record:
WEST END AV, 874-6-8
Located in Riverside – West End Historic District Extension II designated 23 June 2015
Architect Rosario Candela; Builder 878 West End Avenue Corporation 2050 Amsterdam Avenue Ralph Ciluzzi President; Attilio D’Antona Secretary-Treasurer – Southeast corner 103rd Street (Alpern Acanthus page 340)
WEST END AVENUE DOCUMENTATION Survey 2008
Address: 878 West End Avenue, southeast corner West 103rd Street
Block / Lot: 1874/61
NB Number: 310-22 Date: 1922
Original Use: Apartment House No. of units: 56
Stories: 15 Height: 175’
Estimated Cost: $500,000
Façade Materials: main material brick base granite lower floors limestone trim terra cotta cornice metal
Structure: steel
Original Owner: 878 West End Avenue Corporation, 2050 Amsterdam Avenue, Ralph Ciluzzi, president
Architect: Rosario Candela, 200 West 72nd Street
Landmark Status: None
Comments: This modestly-detailed, Italian Renaissance-inspired building has a two-story limestone base with red brick and white terra cotta above. The building has a striking arched entrance flanked by twisted colonettes and a fine copper cornice. There is a “C,” for Ciluzzi, carved into the keystone of the entrance arch. The building was planned with fifty-six apartments, generally three one-bedroom and one two-bedroom apartments per floor.
Bibliography: Alpern, Andrew, The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter (New York: Acanthus Press, 2001), 340-41. (source)
Across 103rd Street, 878 West End, also designed in 1922 by Candela, presents a peculiar spectral air. The absolutely plain pointed Venetian arches, the dead-flat brick facade and the half-missing cornice make this a good candidate for a Stephen King movie. STREETSCAPES | WEST END AVENUE A Preservation Handbook in a Few Short Blocks
