514 West End Avenue

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1923 514 West End Avenue

NB 488-1923
West End Avenue, 514
15-sty bk apt, 62×69
Cost:
$650,000
Owner:
514 West End Ave. Corp, 2300 Bway
Architect:
G. Ajello, 52 Vanderbilt av
Address in Real Estate Record:
WEST END AV, 514

Located in Riverside – West End Historic District Extension I designated 26 June 2012

WEST END AVENUE DOCUMENTATION Survey 2008
Address: 514 West End Avenue, southeast corner West 85th Street
Block / Lot: 1232/61
NB Number: 488-23 Date: 1923
Original Use: Apartment House No. of units: 45
Stories: 15 Height: 150’
Estimated Cost: $650,000
Façade Materials: main material brick base stone lower floors limestone trim terra cotta cornice terra cotta
Structure: steel
Original Owner: 514 West End Avenue Corporation, 2300 Broadway; Anthony A. Paterno, president
Architect: Gaetan Ajello, 52 Vanderbilt Avenue
Landmark Status: None
Comments: Anthony Paterno’s initials can be seen in a roundel set atop the simple entrance enframement of this Neo-Renaissance style building with its rusticated limestone base and red brick above. The upper floors are trimmed with simple terra-cotta detail and a pattern of rusticated brick panels at the corners. According to the Real Estate Record, this building was designed with forty-five apartments, in suites of four or five rooms each. There were also nine servant’s rooms and three baths on the roof. The four room apartments were planned with a foyer, living room, two bedrooms, bath, and kitchen with dining alcove. The five room apartments had the addition of a full dining room that
could also be used as a third bedroom.
Bibliography: “Unusual Building Activity Throughout West End Avenue,” Real Estate Record and Builders Guide 112 (17 November 1923): 617. (source)

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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle • 28 October 1923
“Builders Get Adjoining West End Ave. Dwelling.” New – York Tribune (1923-1924), May 15 1923, p. 21.
The New York Herald, New York Tribune (1924-1926), Jul 13 1924, p. 1.
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From the library of Mary Faiella Turkus, granddaughter of Rose Paterno
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