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1923 Crestwood 522 West End Avenue
Featured in Andrew Alpern’s book The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter page 327
NB 588-1923
West End Avenue, 522-526
15-sty f p apt, 75×100
Cost:
$500,000
Owner:
522 West End Av Corp, 210 W 72d [72nd]
Architect:
Rosario Caudela , 210 W 72d [72nd]
Address in Real Estate Record:
WEST END AV, 522-26
Located in Riverside – West End Historic District Extension I designated 26 June 2012
Architect Rosario Candela; Builder 522 West End Avenue Corporation 200 West 72nd Street; Armino A. Campagna President; Anthony Campagna Treasurer – Easterly side between 85th and 86th Streets (Alpern Acanthus page 247)
WEST END AVENUE DOCUMENTATION Survey 2008
Address: 522 West End Avenue, east side between West 85th and 86th Streets
Block / Lot: 1233/2
NB Number: 588-23 Date: 1923
Original Use: Apartment House No. of units: 60
Stories: 15 Height : 155’
Estimated Cost: $500,000
Façade Materials: main material brick base limestone lower floors brick trim terra cotta cornice terra cotta
Structure: steel
Original Owner: 522 West End Avenue Corporation, 210 West 72nd Street, Armino A. Campagna,
president; Anthony Campagna, treasurer
Architect: Rosario Candela, 210 West 72nd Street
Landmark Status: None
Comments: A Renaissance inspired building with complex decorative detail, including twisted columns, shields, rampant baby lions, etc. The building was planned with sixty apartments, generally four per floor, with two two-bedroom units facing West End Avenue and two one-bedroom units to the rear.
Bibliography: Alpern, Andrew, The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter (New York: Acanthus Press, 2001), 327-29. (source)
New York Times (1923-); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]. 01 Nov 1924: 26.
The New York Herald, New York Tribune (1924-1926); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]. 03 Nov 1924: 22.
New York Times (1923-); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]. 17 Aug 1924: RE8.
