Circa 1916  //  ARCHITECT: Robert T. Lyons  //  BUILDER: Bing & Bing Cons. Co.   A few weeks back, I posted about “house architects — i.e. the on-staff architects of major builder-developers in the prewar era. In the case of Bing & Bing, they worked with several prominent...

Circa 1929 // ARCHITECT: Emery Roth // BUILDER: Bing & Bing Cons. Co.   This set of six 11-story coop buildings takes up much of the north and south sides of this stretch of 73rd Street between Second & Third Avenues. Although somewhat unremarkable from the exterior, each...

Circa 1930  //  ARCHITECT: DePace & Juster  //  BUILDER: Samuel Silver   This is one of Park Avenue’s premier full-service cooperative buildings. Located at the intersection of 89th Street — and I think it is, also, one of the most handsome structures on the Avenue. Rising...

Circa 1928  //  ARCHITECT: Leonard Cox & Arthur Holden Assoc.  //  BUILDER: John K. Turton & Co., Inc.   Relatively uneventful from the outside, this building is a star on the inside! 333 E. 57th Street is set back a few feet behind the lot-line along East 57th Street to...

Circa 1917  //  ARCHITECT: Warren & Wetmore  //  BULIDER: Harry Fischel   This 12-story cooperative building is somewhat typical of very restrained architecture that graces Fifth Avenue. As is quite well known, Fifth Avenue has been the address of choice of the city’s elite...

Circa 1915  //  ARCHITECT: Robert T. Lyons  //  BUILDER: Bing & Bing Cons. Co.   993 Park Avenue is another collaboration between Lyons and the Bing brothers. This 13-story coop has 49 units (originally less). Larger than 955 Park Avenue, built the year before and sitting on a...

Circa 1914  //  ARCHITECT: Robert T. Lyons  //  BUILDER: Bing & Bing Cons. Co.   This building is one of a number of structures designed by Robert T. Lyons and constructed by the Bing brothers, Alexander and Leo. Any buildings with a “Bing & Bing” provenance are held in...

Circa 1916  //  ARCHITECT: Emery Roth //  BUILDER: Bing & Bing Construction, Inc.   This building is quite extraordinary in a number of ways. The facade is unusual for it’s just the right amount of Gothic-inspired ornamentation. Of particular interest is the entrance portal,...

Circa 1927  //  ARCHITECT: J.E.R. Carpenter  //  BUILDER: Dwight P. Robinson & Co., Inc.   This building is considered one of Carpenter’s later masterpieces. The facade is very interesting in the way the light stone at the bottom gradually transitions to the yellowish brick of...

Circa 1925  //  ARCHITECT: Nathan Korn  //  BUILDER: H.R.H. Construction Corp.   944 Fifth Avenue is the epitome of blue-blood reserved elegance — nothing showy or trendy here. The facade is clad completely in smooth stone, and classically ornamented on the lower floors with a...