574 West End Avenue - A news blog for tenants by tenants
Description: A news blog for tenants by tenants
From the West End Preservation Society
“Developers often worked with a small group of architects who specialized in the design and planning of apartment buildings that would meet all of the local regulations while simultaneously providing units planned to meet the expectations of the upper-middle-class households who could afford West End Avenue rents. The most prolific architect active on West End Avenue was the firm of Schwartz & Gross (Figures 8-9). Simon Schwartz and Arthur Gross, architects who had met while studying at the Hebrew Technical
“Although Schwartz & Gross’s office designed scores of apartment buildings faced with Renaissance and Neo-Classical detail, they occasionally designed a building with extraordinarily unusual Arts and Crafts detail, with features seemingly inspired by the decorative designs of Louis Sullivan, notable on two of West End Avenue’s most beautiful buildings, the Chautauqua at no. 574, on the southeast corner of West 88th Street (1911, figure 7) and the Cleburne at no. 924, on the northeast corner of 105th Street
574 West End Avenue - A news blog for tenants by tenants