Cleburne Building Explained

Cleburne Building
Alternate Names:924 West End Avenue
Building Type:Cooperative
Architectural Style:Arts and Crafts Movement
Structural System:Skyscraper
Owner:Harry Schiff
Address:West End Avenue and 105th Street
Location Town:New York, NY
Location Country:United States
Start Date:1912
Completion Date:1913
Floor Count:13
Architect:Schwartz & Gross
Mapframe-Wikidata:yes

The Cleburne Building (also known as 924 West End Avenue) is an apartment building located at the northeast corner of West End Avenue and West 105th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City.

The Cleburne was completed in 1913 by real estate developer Harry Schiff on the site of the mansion of Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus who perished on the .[1] There is a memorial to Mr. and Mrs. Straus in nearby Straus Park.[2]

The building, which is designed in the Arts and Crafts Movement style, has a handsome porte-cochère.[3]

Notable residents

Notes and References

  1. White, Norval, and Elliot Willensky. AIA Guide to New York City. New York: Crown, 2000. Print.
  2. News: Gray . Christopher . Straus Park, 106th Street and West End Avenue; A Restored Memorial to 2 Who Died on the Titanic . The New York Times . August 23, 1998 . September 5, 2009.
  3. News: Gray . Christopher . Homage to the Humdrum . New York Times . November 21, 2008 . September 5, 2009.
  4. News: Ohrstrom . Lysandra . West End Home of A Wrinkle in Time Author Sells for $4 M. . New York Observer . March 7, 2008 . September 5, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090505085331/http://www.observer.com/2008/west-end-avenue-home-late-childrens-author-madeleine-lengle-franklin-sold . May 5, 2009 .
  5. News: Lian . Nancy . Celebrity Sightings . West 104th Street Block Association Newsletter . December 8, 2002 . May 7, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090106144503/http://www.bloomingdale.org/Newsletters/dec-02.pdf . January 6, 2009 .
  6. News: Dailey. Jessica. October 25, 2012. Borowitz Picks Up a Classic 7 for $2.635M. Curbed. June 17, 2017.

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