1011 Sheridan Avenue

Concourse | built 1929

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1929
Tiffany Arms Realty Corp. builds a seven-story apartment house around a deep courtyard
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Tiffany Arms Realty Corp. built this seven-story Renaissance Revival apartment house in 1929 under permit NB 2318-1928, designed by Schaefer & Rutkins. The building wraps around a deep T-shaped courtyard and is trimmed in terra cotta, with a projecting entrance pavilion in the court and round-arched windows on the sixth story. A store was later added at its southeast corner.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1929
Schaefer & Rutkins design the building around the time their partnership apparently ends
Albert E. Schaefer, from an old Bronx family, and Harry B. Rutkins, a 1926 City College graduate, designed large apartment houses in the Bronx and upper Manhattan until their firm apparently broke up around 1929. In 1937 Rutkins was one of seven people found guilty of second-degree manslaughter after an unfinished apartment house collapsed at 112 East Mosholu Parkway. As its architect he got a suspended sentence.
“In 1937, Rutkins and six others were found guilty of second-degree manslaughter for the collapse of an apartment house under construction…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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