210 Avenue of the Americas

also 208 Avenue of the Americas | SoHo | built 1928

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

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1928
John B. Peterkin completes an Art Deco apartment house at Avenue of the Americas and MacDougal Street
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Built in 1928 for the 81 MacDougal Corporation, whose president was Nathaniel Rosenberg, the building rises six stories. John B. Peterkin used beige, orange and brown brick in geometric patterns to give the nearly flat front a sense of depth. Because the lot is irregular, the building has three designed facades, on Avenue of the Americas, Prince Street and MacDougal Street.
“…built in 1928 by the architect John B. Peterkin for the 81 MacDougal Corporation, of which Nathaniel Rosenberg was president.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1928
John B. Peterkin, architect of 210 Avenue of the Americas, also worked on the Socony-Mobil Building and the Coliseum
John B. Peterkin (1886-1969) specialized in apartment houses and civic buildings, often in a stripped Classical or streamlined Moderne manner. Besides this 1928 apartment house, his Manhattan commissions included 53 Park Place, 1016 Fifth Avenue, the Airlines Building opposite Grand Central, and the New York Coliseum of 1953-54. He also worked with Harrison & Abramowitz on the Socony-Mobil Building, now a city landmark.
“John B. Peterkin specialized in apartment houses and civic structures. Most of his designs were relatively free of ornament…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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