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1922 915 West End Avenue
– Joseph Paterno President; Mrs. Jule H. Z. Paterno Vice President; Thomas McDonald Secretary; Anthony Campagna Assistant Secretary
Featured in Andrew Alpern’s book The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter page 342
NB 208-1922
West End Avenue, 911-919
15-sty bk tnt house, 100Ă—100
Cost:
$0
Owner:
915 West End Corp, 601 W 115th st
Architect:
Rosario Candela, 200 W 72d [72nd] st
Address in Real Estate Record:
WEST END AV, 911 to 19
Located in Riverside – West End Historic District Extension II designated 23 June 2015
Architect Rosario Candela; Builder 915 West End Avenue Corporation 601 West 115th Street Joseph Paterno President; Mrs. Jule H.Z. Paterno Vice President; Thomas McDonald Secretary; Anthony Campagna Assistant Secretary – Southwest corner 105th Street (Alpern Acanthus page 342)
WEST END AVENUE DOCUMENTATION Survey 2008
Address: 915 West End Avenue, southwest corner West 105th Street
Block / Lot: 1891/26
NB Number: 208-22 Date: 1922
Original Use: Apartment House No. of units: 90
Stories: 15 Height: 150’
Estimated Cost:
Façade Materials: main material brick base granite lower floors brick trim terra cotta cornice terra cotta
Structure: steel
Original Owner: 915 West End Avenue Corporation, 601 West 115th Street, Joseph Paterno, president
Architect: Rosario Candela, 200 West 72nd Street
Landmark Status: None
Comments: Like its neighbor to the south, this building was erected by developer Joseph Paterno who had his initials inscribed in a cartouche above the entrance. While Paterno’s pre-war building at no. 905 is twelve stories tall, this building has fifteen stories of apartments. It is a red brick structure with limestone at the entrance and terra-cotta trim elsewhere.
Bibliography Alpern Andrew, The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter (New York: Acanthus Press, 2001), (source)
915 West End Avenue building website 915wea.com
Start a downhill walk on West End Avenue at 105th Street, near the avenue’s terminus at Broadway. At the southwest corner, Rosario Candela designed 915 West End Avenue, one of his first buildings, in 1922. It has a certain dignified repose, but the exterior and the floor plans give no hint of the native genius his admirers often attribute to him. The apartment houses in their current state are rich with examples of how not to repair buildings: the corner on No. 915 has been rebuilt, but the new caulking is bright white and brought flush to the surface, fighting the varied reddish tones of the brick itself. But a thoughtful mason has done something unusual with the expansion joint. Instead of inserting a straight vertical gap all the way up, he has staggered it so it looks like old-fashioned quoining. STREETSCAPES | WEST END AVENUE A Preservation Handbook in a Few Short Blocks
New York Times (1923-); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]. 20 May 1923: RE12.
