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1909 Stadium View 445 Riverside Drive
Located in the Morningside Heights Historic District designated 21 February 2017
NB 710-1909
Riverside Drive, east side, 107.6 n West 116th Street
two 12-sty brick and stone apartments, 58.9×99.1
COST:
$600,000
OWNER:
Paterno Bros., Inc, 510 West 114th st; Joseph Paterno, president; Charles V. Paterno, secretary and treasurer
ARCHITECT:
Schwartz & Gross, 347 5th [Fifth] av
ADDRESS IN REAL ESTATE RECORD:
RIVERSIDE DRIVE, e s, 107.6 n 116th st
445 Riverside Drive ( Stadium View )
Borough of Manhattan Tax Map Block 1990, Lot 67
Date(s): 1909-10 (NB 710-1909)
Architect(s) / Builder(s): Schwartz & Gross
Owner(s) / Developer(s): Paterno Bros.
Type: Apartment building
Style(s): Renaissance Revival
Stories: 12
Material(s): Brick; limestone; terra cotta; granite
Status: Contributing
History, Significance and Notable Characteristics
The Stadium View is a 12-story Renaissance Revival style apartment house, one of a pair
designed by Schwartz & Gross and built in 1909-10 by the Paterno Brothers, who were prolific apartment house builders in Morningside Heights between 1898 and 1924.The brick, limestone, and terra-cotta building has all the hallmarks of the Renaissance Revival style, including its three-story limestone base, central segmental-arched entrance with carved floral enframements, brick window enframements with decorative keystones, bracketed balconettes at upper stories, terra-cotta and molded stone transitional cornices, decorative spandrel panels, and an elaborate terra-cotta modillioned cornice.
Alterations
Riverside Drive Facade: Historic wrought-iron-and-glass awning removed from above main
entrance; two bronze address plaques flank the entrance; multiple windows replaced; metal accessibility ramp added to stoop; non-historic stone planters at stoop walls; non-historic metal security grilles at basement and multiple first-story windows
Site
Areaways flank the central entrance; sunken southern areaway with stone stairs, stone curb and wrought-iron fencing and newel posts; northern areaway with planting bed; stone curb and wrought-iron fencing and newel posts
Sidewalk / Curb Materials
Concrete sidewalk and stone curb
References
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(source)
Living It Up (published 1984) page 319: STADIUM VIEW, 445 Riverside Drive: A 12-story building of tan brick, with stone balconies handsomely adorned with ivy during the summer. At the time when this apartment house was constructed, circa 1900, plans to build an enormous stadium and marina on the Hudson River had been announced.
