The Ashley
160 East 163rd Street | also 930 Grand Conc, 930 Grand Concourse | Concourse Village | built 1948
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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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- 1941
World War II building restrictions stall the Ashley for several years after it is proposed
Ashley Apartments, Inc. first proposed this apartment house in 1941, but wartime limits on construction held it up for several years. A new-building permit, number 101 of 1944, was finally issued, and the building went up between 1944 and 1948, a few years after the same company's smaller building at 180 East 163rd Street.
- 1948
H. Herbert Lilien completes the Ashley, a stepped ten- and eleven-story Moderne apartment house
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Designed by H. Herbert Lilien for Ashley Apartments, Inc., the Ashley rises 11 stories on its western half and 10 on its eastern half. It is faced in beige brick with marble sills and wrap-around corner windows. The main entrance on the Grand Concourse sits under a cast-stone canopy with a geometric frieze and circular lights set into its underside, above a floor of orange ceramic tile.
- 1948
Architect H. Herbert Lilien adds the Ashley to his string of Bronx Moderne apartment houses
H. Herbert Lilien (1898-1982), born in New Jersey, studied at the School of Fine Arts and Engineering at Fawcett and had an architecture practice in New York by 1923. Through the Depression and into the early 1940s he designed many Art Deco and Moderne apartment buildings, four of them in the Grand Concourse Historic District, including the Ashley. He kept working into the 1950s before retiring to Florida.
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