Yorkville Bank Building
1511 3rd Avenue | also 203 East 85th Street | Yorkville | built 1905
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1905
Robert Maynicke's Yorkville Bank building opens on Third Avenue
Architect Robert Maynicke designs a four-story Italian Renaissance bank palazzo for the Yorkville Bank, which Reinhold Van Der Emde and Richard Adams founded in 1893. After the bank moves to temporary quarters on 83rd Street, the old buildings on the corner come down. The new banking hall opens on December 18, 1905, about ten months after construction begins.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1924
P. Gregory Stadler enlarges the bank with matching extensions
After the Yorkville Bank buys the adjoining building at 1515 Third Avenue in 1922, architect P. Gregory Stadler designs northern and eastern extensions to the 1905 structure. Completed in 1924, the additions closely echo Robert Maynicke's original Italian Renaissance detailing, so the enlarged bank reads as a single unified building along the avenue.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 2012
The city designates the Yorkville Bank Building a landmark
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designates the Yorkville Bank Building an individual landmark in 2012. Robert Maynicke designed the Renaissance Revival building at 1511 to 1515 Third Avenue for the bank, and it was built in 1905.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2018
A 2018 renovation brings retail and a health club to the old bank
The bank leaves the ground floor in 1991. A renovation in 2018 turns the first floor into a retail store and the upper floors into a health club. Robert Maynicke's design, including the arcade along the sidewalk, remains almost entirely intact.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- Yorkville Bank BuildingWikipedia
- Robert Maynicke's 1906 Yorkville Bank -- 1511 Third AvenueDaytonian in Manhattan
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