188 East 167th Street

also 1188 Grand Conc, 1188A Grand Conc, 1188 Grand Concourse | Concourse | built 1938

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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.

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  1. 1938

    Jacob M. Felson designs an Art Deco apartment house at the Grand Concourse and East 167th Street

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    North American Holding Corp. built this six-story apartment house in 1936-38 under permit 261 of 1936, with Jacob M. Felson as architect. Its stepped beige brick facade is decorated with contrasting brick, and it has a marquee, decorative fire escapes and a transom bar that still carries the original house numbers. A subway entrance stands beside it at the corner of East 167th Street.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1938

    Movie-house architect Jacob M. Felson becomes president of an apartment-building firm

    Jacob M. Felson (1886-1962) came to the United States from Russia with his parents in 1888, studied at Cooper Union and began practicing architecture in 1910. His New York work included numerous apartment houses and movie theaters, and in 1938 he became president of Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc., a firm that put up apartment buildings. Eight apartment houses in the Grand Concourse Historic District are his, including this one.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 2006

    This building's pleated corner windows may have inspired the Bronx Museum's fan-fold addition

    Seen from the side, the corner windows of 1188 and its neighbor 1166 Grand Concourse, set in bands of orange and red brick, form an overlapping, pleated pattern. A Landmarks Preservation Commission walking tour by historian Matthew Postal suggests that this effect may have inspired the fan-folded addition built at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2006.

    Source: nyc.gov

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