Dillerwood Apartments
161 East 162nd Street | also 910 Grand Conc, 914 Grand Conc, 910 Grand Concourse | Concourse Village | built 1938
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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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- 1938
Israel L. Crausman designs the Dillerwood Apartments at the corner of East 162nd Street
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Dillerwood Realty Co. put up this eight-story Moderne apartment house with a penthouse in 1938, under new-building permit 600 of 1937, to plans by Israel L. Crausman. It is faced in beige brick with cast stone and marble trim. Its corners are rounded, with windows that wrap around them, and the main entrance has a curved cast-stone portico with stylized piers. The original multi-paned steel casements have since been replaced.
- 1938
Dillerwood Realty builds a matching row of Moderne apartment houses along East 162nd Street
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The Dillerwood was one of three look-alike buildings that the same developer and architect put up within two years of each other on the north side of East 162nd Street, along with 185 East 162nd Street and 909 Sheridan Avenue. About seven years later the pair added 910 Sheridan Avenue next door. The Landmarks Preservation Commission notes that similar Moderne buildings by other teams stand on the south side of East 163rd Street.
“The developer and architect for this building is the same as for 185 East 162nd Street and 909 Sheridan Avenue, which are similar in appearance, constructed within two years…”
- 1938
Bessarabian-born architect Israel Crausman designs five apartment houses in the district
Israel L. Crausman (1899-1989) was born in Bessarabia and came to the United States with his family when he was 13. He studied both architecture and engineering at Cooper Union and opened his own firm in 1922, going on to design apartment buildings, schools and armories in the city and in Westchester and Rockland counties. The Dillerwood is one of five apartment buildings he designed in what is now the Grand Concourse Historic District.
Nearby
- The Ashley160 East 163rd Street | 3 entries
- 185 East 162nd Street2 entries
- 180 East 163rd Street1 entry
- Concourse Plaza Hotel900 Grand Conc | 5 entries
- 909 Sheridan Avenue2 entries
- 917 Sheridan Avenue2 entries