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1909 Aqua Vista 460 Riverside Drive
Located in the Morningside Heights Historic District designated 21 February 2017
1950 Paterno Family (Kelley Paterno page 287)
460 Riverside Drive ( Aqua Vista )
Borough of Manhattan Tax Map Block 1990, Lot 50
Date(s): 1909-10 (NB 717-1909)
Architect(s) / Builder(s): Schwartz & Gross
Owner(s) / Developer(s): M. E. Paterno Realty Co.
Type: Apartment building
Style(s): Renaissance Revival with alterations
Stories: 12
Material(s): Brick; limestone; terra cotta
Status: Contributing
History, Significance and Notable Characteristics
The Aqua Vista is a 12-story brick-and-limestone clad apartment building designed by Schwartz & Gross and built in 1909-10 by M. E. Paterno Realty Company one of the companies operated by members of the Paterno family active in the development of Morningside Heights between 1898 and 1924. Renaissance Revival style features include a three-story rusticated limestone base, central segmental-arched entrance with carved foliated enframements, decorative limestone keystone lintels and quoins, bracketed balconettes at upper stories, terra-cotta and stone denticulated cornices, decorative spandrel panels.
Alterations
Riverside Drive Facade: Cornice removed; wrought-iron-and-glass entrance awning removed; some windows replaced; non-historic light fixtures at main entrance; non-historic metal-security grilles at some first-floor windows; non-historic metal security camera poles
Site
Enclosed areaways flank central entrance; sunken southern areaway with stone basement stairs enclosed by stone curb with cast-iron railings and newel posts; central planting bed with iron fencing and newel posts shared with 464 Riverside Drive
Sidewalk / Curb Materials
Concrete sidewalk and metal curb
References
N/A
(source)
1909
717
$360,000.00
RIVERSIDE DRIVE, e s, 100 s 119th st two 12-sty brick and stone apartment houses, 62.6˙81
OWNER / OWNER ADDRESS
(o) M. E. Paterno Realty Co – / (o) 15 Claremont av COMMENTS
ARCHITECT / ARCHITECT ADDRESS
(a) Schwartz & Gross / (a) 347 5th [Fifth] av (source)
Living It Up (published 1984) page 46: AQUAVISTA, 460 Riverside Drive: A tan-brick building of 12 stories, with balconies; circa 1900. The water being viewed is the Hudson, which the building faces.
New – York Tribune (1900-1910); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]. 07 Aug 1909: 9.
