![]() New York Herald Tribune (1926-1962) New York, N.Y. Pictured (artist’s illustration) in Andrew Alpern’s book Historic Manhattan Apartment Houses on page 45. Jackie, A New Yorker NovemThe Brooklyn Daily Eagle Candela, along with developers James Lee and Anthony Paterno, and architect William Lawrence Bottomley, created a new kind of apartment cooperative (with huge closets, views of the East River, and outdoor space) that was designed to appeal to well-to-do families. ![]() The 1929 building (an innovative development) was another Rosario Candela design. STREETSCAPES | 1 GRACIE SQUARE It’s One Building, but It Looks Like Six By Christopher Gray Ma( source) (source) Historic building brochure complete at linkĪfter her parents divorced, Jackie moved with her mother, sister, and servants to another building developed by James Lee, 1 Gracie Square (at 84th Street), near Yorkville, on the upper East Side. The crowning touch was a faceted copper roof ringed by gargoyles and topped with a weather vane in the form of a two-masted sailing ship. On the roof, the water tank enclosure, often a throwaway item, was handled like a Gothic folly, its octagonal form held up by buttresses. The theme is carried down to the first-floor walls, where the limestone was carefully cut and laid in irregular blocks, as if they had been built with scavenged material. Even the brick varies: the east section is a darker shade than the west. The Gracie Square side is an interlocking puzzle of vertical runs of quoining, horizontal courses of stone, irregular balconies and oddly placed moldings. What purchasers got on the outside was a single structure so variously adorned that it looked like half a dozen. Together, they designed a 15-story co-op building suggesting a replica of an old English castle, with simplex, duplex and triplex units of 6 to 11 rooms. Paterno worked with Rosario Candela, who would achieve renown for luxury buildings like 740 Park Avenue, and with William Lawrence Bottomley, a country-house architect who also built town houses and clubs. Paterno was known mostly as an Upper West Side developer before his involvement with Gracie Square. Paterno who worked through the First Avenue Association to rename the area after the Gracie family’s mansion, built in 1799 at 88th Street and East End Avenue, which itself started life as plain old Avenue B. Paterno – southeast corner 84th Street and East End Avenue (Alpern Acanthus page 291) ( source) ( source) ( source) ( source) Historic building brochure complete at link ( source ) Historic building brochure complete at link Paterno, pres, 578 Madison avĪrchitect Rosario Candela Associated Architect William Lawrence Bottomley Architects for cooperative tenant/owners Shreve & Lamb Builder Anthony A. ![]() Paterno (Kelley Paterno page 287)įeatured in Andrew Alpern’s book The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter page 291ġ Sutton Square Corp., Anthony A.
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