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1919 884 West End Avenue
NB 225-1919
West End Avenue, West 103rd Street, northeast corner
13-sty bk tnt, 100×98
Cost:
$750,000
Owner:
884 West End Av. Corp
Architect:
Gatean Ajello
Address in Real Estate Record:
WEST END AV, n e 103d
Located in Riverside – West End Historic District Extension II designated 23 June 2015
WEST END AVENUE DOCUMENTATION Survey 2008
Address: 884 West End Avenue, northeast corner West 103rd Street
Block / Lot: 1875/1
NB Number: 225-19 Date: 1919
Original Use: Apartment House No. of units: 78
Stories: 13 Height: 150’
Estimated Cost: $750,000
Façade Materials: main material brick
base stone lower floors limestone
trim terra cotta cornice terra cotta
Structure: steel
Original Owner: The 884 West End Avenue Corporation, 601 West 115th Street, Joseph Paterno, president
Architect: Gaetan Ajello, 1 West 34th Street
Landmark Status: None
Comments: 884 West End Avenue is somewhat simpler in ornamentation than Gaetan Ajello’s slightly earlier, pre-World War I buildings located just across West End Avenue. As on his other buildings, Ajello has clad this apartment house in white brick with matching terra-cotta trim. The building has unusual header-brick lintels. The two-story, segmental-arch entrance has a cartouche with Joseph Paterno’s initials. (source)
Frederic H. McCoun – senior partner in the NY law firm of Scudder, McCoun, Stockton, and Kerfoot.
