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1912 7th Avenue and 58th Street
aka 200 West 58th Street
1912
537
$300,000.00
7TH [Seventh] AV, s w cor 58th st 12-sty apartment house, 100.5˙90
OWNER / OWNER ADDRESS
(o) Paterno Const. Co / (o) 440 Riverside Drive COMMENTS
ARCHITECT / ARCHITECT ADDRESS
(a) G. Ajello / (a) 1 West 34th st (source)
Mentioned here: Faith in New York Property • Interview with Dr. Charles V. Paterno • 1926
Paterno Apartments, Midtown
Entrance Rondelle
Paterno Apartments (1912–13)
Architect: Gaetan Ajello
200 W. 58th St.
Midtown, New York
Uploaded on July 5, 2015 Taken on July 4, 2015
Built by the Paterno Construction Company of real estate developers Charles and Joseph Paterno: a “P” appears in a cartouche over the front entrance. Charles V. Paterno (1876–1946) built a castle at 185th Street and Riverside Drive in 1909, but he maintained an apartment here and owned a Packard in 1914.
Playright George S. Kaufman (1889¬–1961) lived here from 1921 to 1929. While living here, he wrote Dulcy (1921), Merton of the Movies (1922), Helen of Troy, New York (1923), Beggar on Horseback (1924), The Butter and Egg Man (1925), The Cocoanuts (1925), The Royal Family (1927), The Front Page (1928), Animal Crackers (1928), and Strike Up the Band (1930).
David Johansen (aka Buster Poindexter, b. 1950) lived here in the 1980s.
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