St. Urban (Manhattan)
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| Basic data | |
| Place: | New York City , United States |
| Construction time : | 1904-1905 |
| Status : | Built |
| Architectural style : | Beaux Arts architecture |
| Architect : | Robert T. Lyons |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | Apartments |
| Client : | Peter Banner |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height to the top: | 39.82 m |
| Height to the roof: | 46.03 m |
| Floors : | 12 |
| Building-costs: | $ 800,000 |
St. Urban is an exclusive, traditional apartment building in New York City on the Upper West Side , which is located between 88th Street and 89th Street and Central Park West , in the Upper West Side-Central Park West Historic District . The main address is 285 Central Park West and the secondary address is 2 West 89th Street . The annex is the apartment building 279 Central Park West . The Beaux Arts building with a facade made of sand-lime brick has 12 floors, a mansard roof with a copper facade over a steel frame and a tower in the northeast corner.
background
The pure construction costs of the building were 800,000 US dollars , not counting the equipment and the property. It was hoped that the apartments could be rented for between $ 3,000 and $ 4,500 annually. Since the prices were set too high, the building was foreclosed . The lawyer Albert Forsch later auctioned it for 1.13 million US dollars and sold it in August 1906 to the Barstun Realty Company , which from then on was able to rent it out successfully, mainly to German-Jewish business people and entrepreneurs.
In 1987 the project to have the building recognized as a landmark failed .
see more
279 Central Park West and the St. Urban
St. Urban from Central Park West
literature
- Andrew Alpern: Luxury apartment houses of Manhattan: an illustrated history , Dover Publications 1993, ISBN 0-486-27370-9 , pages 67-71
- D. Fitzgerald: Window on the Park: New York's Most Prestigious Properties on Central Park , Images Publishing Dist Ac 2009, ISBN 1-86470-276-1 , pp. 228-234
- Jenny Lawrence: A Centennial history of the St. Urban , ISBN 978-0-615-14926-4 , 205 pages
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Coordinates: 40 ° 47 ′ 13 ″ N , 73 ° 58 ′ 6 ″ W.