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 1928  //  ARCHITECT: Cross & Cross  //  BUILDER: Irons & Hoover, Inc.   This is a very distinguished building with many elements of classic prewar styling. There is a two-story smooth stone base, with rusticated corner quoins. The body of the building is of a red brick,...

Circa 1929  //  ARCHITECT: William Lawrence Bottomley & Rosario Candela  //  BUILDER: Anthony A. Paterno   This is a most interesting and unusual looking building, and I like it. The facade is organized to appear like two, or perhaps even three separate smaller buildings. This...

Circa 1930  //  ARCHITECT: Emery Roth  //  BUILDER: Gresham Construction Co., Inc.   This is a simple all-brick building that sits across from Carl Shurz Park. The facade is very understated, with almost no ornament at all — unusual for Roth. But what makes the building great is...

Circa 1931  //  ARCHITECT: Charles A. Platt  //  BUILDER: George A. Fuller, Co.   This is an extremely imposing building anchoring the East End Avenue “Gold Coast” facing lovely Carl Shurz Park. The entire building is clad in smooth stone, and the ceiling heights are obviously...

Circa 1928  //  ARCHITECT: Rosario Candela  //  BUILDER: Paterno Brothers   This building is across the street form 25 Sutton Place, and is another very restrained Candela building that defines the Sutton Place neighborhood. Number 30 is a larger building, playing on the same...

Circa: 1929  //  ARCHITECT: Sloan & Robertson  //  BUILDER: Todd & Brown, Inc.   The facade on One Beekman Place is quite uneventful. The entire building is clad in a brown brick, and only the narrow entrance portal is of a light stone, rising two stories. The only...

Circa 1928  //  ARCHITECT: Rosario Candela  //  BUILDER: Anthony Paterno   The exterior of this building is reserved in the extreme, especially compared to its larger sibling to the south, One Sutton Place South, also designed by Candela. A typical smooth two story stone base with 12...

Circa 1925  //  ARCHITECT: Rosario Candela + Cross & Cross  //  BUILDER: Max J. Kramer Co.   A large U-shaped Georgian style building originally conceived with only five apartments every two floors. The southern end consists of a 13-room simplex, a 12-room duplex in the center,...

Circa 1930  //  ARCHITECT: Bottomly, Wagner and White  //  BUILDER: James Stewart & Co.   Riverhouse is one of a very small number of ultra-prestigious cooperative apartments not located on the Upper East Side. Located at the end of 52nd Street, in the Beekman Place neighborhood,...