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1907 Broadview 606 West 116th Street
– Paterno Brothers, Inc. (Metropolis page 59)
116th Street between Broadway and Riverside Drive
1907
643
$225,000.00
116th st, s s, 100 w Broadway 12-sty brk and stone apartment house, 75˙82.11
OWNER / OWNER ADDRESS
(o) Paterno Bros / (o) 616 W 116th st COMMENTS
ARCHITECT / ARCHITECT ADDRESS
(a) Schwartz & Gross / (a) 35 W 21st st (source)
606 West 116th Street (aka 602-606 West 116th Street) ( Broadview )
Borough of Manhattan Tax Map Block 1896, Lot 74
Date(s): 1907-08 (NB 643-1907)
Architect(s) / Builder(s): Schwartz & Gross
Owner(s) / Developer(s): Paterno Bros.
Type: Apartment building
Style(s): Beaux Arts with Secessionist elements
Stories: 12
Material(s): Beige brick; limestone; terra-cotta
Status: Contributing
History, Significance and Notable Characteristics
The Westerfield and Broadview were designed by the firm of Schwartz & Gross and built in 1907-08 for the Paterno Brothers, prolific apartment house builders in Morningside Heights between 1898 and 1924. The Broadview is a 12-story Beaux Arts style apartment building with Secessionist details, including floral cast-iron balconette railings, and low-relief decorations with organic details. Beaux Arts elements include the rusticated limestone base, wide stone stoop with cheek walls, central entrance with swag and cartouche, beige brick at the upper stories, paired windows with transoms, keyed lintels, bracketed balconettes including at individual windows and full width, elaborate attic story with pediment and metal cornice.
Alterations
West 116th Street Facade: Facade repointed at several places; modillions and brackets removed from cornice; wrought-iron-and-glass awning removed at main entrance; main entrance doors and transom replaced; non-historic addresses incised on facade; non-historic metal security grilles at some first-story windows; siamese pipes at basement facade; electrical conduits at basement facade
Site
Two sunken areaways with stone stairs flank central entrance, with stone curb and castiron
railings, newel posts and gate
Sidewalk / Curb Materials
Concrete sidewalk and metal curb
References
N/A
(source)
Living It Up (published 1984) page 74: BROADVIEW, 606 West 116th Street: The architects were Schwartz & Gross for this 1907-1908 Paterno Brothers building. When it opened, there were four apartments to the floor at annual rents of $700 to $1,600. A glass entrance has been added.
