Bronx Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Building

1130 Grand Conc | also 1130 Grand Concourse | Concourse | built 1926

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1925

    The Bronx County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children builds its Children's Shelter

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    Raldiris & LaVelle designed this three-story red brick and limestone building, filed as NB 677-1925 and completed in 1926, for the Bronx County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. A double dog-leg staircase climbs to an entry under a Corinthian portico whose entablature still reads "Children's Shelter." Round-arched second-story windows, some with fanlights, and a pediment decorated with anthemia complete the Classical Revival front.

    “Corinthian portico supported by paneled bases and columns in antis, "Children's Shelter" still visible in the entablature…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1951

    The Bronx Y.M. & Y.W.H.A. buys the former shelter and adds a wing

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    The Bronx Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association bought the building in 1951 and hired Leo Stillman to design a two-story addition with a basement (ALT 555-1951). The new wing was first meant to wrap the old building on three sides, but the plans changed in 1953 and only its southern half went up, finished in brick and stone.

    “…originally intended to surround the existing building on three sides, the plans were altered in 1953, and only the southern half of the addition was built…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1980

    The Girls Club of New York buys the building, later a site of Bronx Works

    In 1980 the Y.M. & Y.W.H.A. sold the former shelter to the Girls Club of New York. Starting in 1993 the building became one of the many locations of the Citizens Advice Bureau, the social service agency now known as Bronx Works, which serves kids, teenagers and families. Two years later, in 1995, the bureau and the Girls Club merged into one organization.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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