601 West End Avenue | |
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General information | |
Type | Cooperative apartments |
Architectural style | Neoclassical |
Location | Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City, U.S. |
Address | 601 West End Avenue, New York, NY 10024 |
Coordinates | 40°47′28″N73°58′36″W / 40.791029°N 73.976580°W |
Completed | 1915 |
Owner | 601 West End Avenue, Inc. |
Technical details | |
Material | Structural Steel and Concrete Slabs |
Floor count | 13 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Emery Roth |
Developer | Alfred Saxe |
601 West End Avenue is a luxury apartment building on West End Avenue on the northwest corner of West 89th Street in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The thirteen-story building was designed by noted architect Emery Roth and built in 1915. In a review by the architectural critic Carter B. Horsley, the building was praised as "one of the city's most elegant and distinguished apartment buildings." [1]
In his book Mansions in the Sky, Steven Ruttenbaum observes that 601 West End Avenue "exhibits an eclectic mixture of neo-classicism and the Vienna Secession" and is "notable for its discipline and sobriety." The building, he wrote, originally had only one apartment per floor. [2]
The architecture critic Carter B. Horsley wrote "The building's façade is nicely modeled to accent its verticality, but is punctuated by a very large wrought-iron entrance marquee and large balconies on the fourth, fifth and twelfth floors. The 13th floor has arched windows below the building's simple cornice." [1]
In 1915, the developer Alfred Saxe purchased the two row houses on the corner of 89th street. [3] Emery Roth's plans filed in May that year, placed construction costs at $260,000. [2]
Originally the building residents were affluent and would have maintained a domestic staff in their large 3,000-square-foot (280 m2) apartments. In a 1930 article detailing a burglary, The New York Times details the staff: "In 1930 Joseph Baumann, who ran a furniture business, and his wife occupied the sixth floor apartment. Living with them were four servants, a butler, maid, nurse (who had charge of an infant), and a cook. On June 12 that year, Mrs. Baumann entered a hospital for a minor operation. When she returned home four days later, she discovered $100,000 in jewels missing from her bedroom." [4]
Sometime during or after the Great Depression the building was converted into a Single Room Occupancy hotel with 117 rooms. [5]
In 1943 [5] the building was bought and converted into a nursing home. In 1957, it was remodeled as the Mayflower Nursing Home. The home was operated by Bernard Bergman. [6] However, the nursing home faced closure in 1975 due to reported deficiencies in care and safety violations. [6]
In 1977, 601 West End Avenue was sold out of foreclosure for $500,000, with a subsequent $1 million construction bond to facilitate its conversion into a cooperative. [6] The Recycling for Housing Partnership of Austin Laber and Jerome Kretchmer was the group behind the conversion. [7] The remodel setup the building with two apartments per floor with a penthouse on the roof.
The building continues to be run as a cooperative. Apartments now sell for over $2 million. [8]
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