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NB 575-1922
West 85th Street, 310
9-sty f p bk apt, 75×85
Cost:
$500,000
Owner:
310 W 85th St. Corp, 2300 Bway
Architect:
Gaetan Ajello, 52 Vanderbilt av
Address in Real Estate Record:
85TH ST, 310 W
1922 NY City Directory lists Anthony A. Paterno address as 2300 Broadway
Builders Purchase Apartment Site: The De Coppett Mansion on West 85th Street Sold to A. Paterno and V. Cerabone May 17, 1922: A deal involving about $1,000,000 was closed yesterday in the heart of the upper west side apartment house section when Anthony A. Paterno, operator and builder, and his associate in several recent building apartments, Victor Cerabone, purchased the old De Coppett mansion on Eighty-fifth Street, just west of West End Avenue, and two adjacent parcels. The buyers will form a new corporation for the erection of a high-class nine-story apartment on the site of the De Coppett house, which has a frontage of 75 feet and a depth of 102.2 feet. Mr. Paterno and his associate also purchase 302 and 318 West Eighty-fifth Street, two private dwellings. Mr. Paterno has just completed at 505 West End Avenue, the northwest corner of Eighty-fourth Street, a high-class fourteen-story fireproof building. The specific reason for purchasing 302 West Eighty-fifth Street is to protect the northerly light of this building. By the purchase of 302 and also 318, they have also protected the easterly and westerly sides, which insures perfect light, making it equal to a corner. Mr. Cerabone has also erected a number of high-class apartments on the west side, and has just completed 320 West Eighty-ninth Street, on a plot 62 by 102.2, a nine-story building considered one of the most attractive apartment houses in the section. The De Coppett mansion will be demolished in the early part of the December and the new building finished and ready for occupancy about July 1, 1923. Earle & Calhoun were the brokers in this transaction.
310 West 85th Street, AKA 310-314 West 85th Street
Date: 1922-1923
NB Number: NB 575-1922
Type: Apartment Building
Architect: Ajello, Gaetan
Developer/Owner/Builder: 310 W 85th Street Corp
NYC Landmarks Designation: Historic District
Landmark Designation Report:Riverside Drive – West End Historic District Extension I
National Register Designation: N/A
Primary Style: Romanesque Revival
Primary Facade: Brick and Stone
Stories: 9
Window Type/Material: Unknown
Structure: Significant Architectural Features: Rusticated stone base with high water table; central entrance with stone enframements with wood and glass double- eaf doors; astragal belt course spans width of the building marking transition between the first and second stories; tripartite belt course spans the width of the facade between the second and third stories; second story arched windows framed in stone; stone bracketed balconettes mark the paired stone enframed windows at the third, fifth and eighth stories; stone banding at the eighth story acts as sills for the arcaded windows at the ninth story; denticulated cornice at the roof line; Special Windows: Rounded arched windows at the ninth story
Site Features: Side service alley
North Facade: Designed (historic) Door(s): Replaced primary door; secondary entrance at first story west part of facade Windows: Replaced (upper stories) Security Grilles: Not historic (upper stories); Cornice: Original Sidewalk Material(s): Concrete Curb Material(s): Stone
West Facade: Not designed (historic) (partially visible) Facade Notes: Brick facade; one-over-one windows
East Facade: Not designed (historic) (partially visible) Facade Notes: Brick facade; one-over-one windows
Historic District: Riverside Drive-West End HD Extension I
Alterations: Windows replaced; through the wall air-conditioners at the fifth story; non-historic light fixtures at main entrance (LandmarkWest.com)
New – York Tribune (1911-1922); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]. 17 May 1922: 19.
New – York Tribune (1923-1924); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]. 04 Dec 1923: 24.
