The Garrison Apartments
435 Convent Avenue | also 418 West 149th Street | Sugar Hill | built 1910
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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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- 1910
Neville & Bagge complete Emsworth Hall on Convent Avenue
Harlem-based architects Neville & Bagge design a six-story apartment building at Convent Avenue and West 149th Street for owner E. M. Krulewitch. Its style is Beaux-Arts with French Renaissance Revival touches, and it is built of granite, brick, and terra cotta. It opens as Emsworth Hall and holds 29 apartments.
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- 1926
Samuel Cottman begins offering the building's apartments to Black buyers as a cooperative
Samuel J. Cottman, a Black real estate developer, starts advertising apartments at the building on a cooperative plan to Black buyers, and The New York Age covers the sale on its front page in October. By 1929 the shareholders incorporate as The Garrison Apartments, Inc. Descendants of one early board member say the name honors the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison.
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- 1929
The Garrison becomes Sugar Hill's first Black-owned cooperative
The deed to the former Emsworth Hall passes to The Garrison Apartments, Inc., making it Sugar Hill's first Black-owned cooperative. Peter B. Codrington serves as the board's first president and leads it through the Great Depression, a time when most co-op buildings in New York and Chicago went bankrupt. By 1936 owners occupy 26 of the 29 apartments.
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- 2000
The Garrison joins the Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Historic District
The city designates the Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Historic District, which includes 435 Convent Avenue, as a landmark district. The National Register of Historic Places lists the district two years later, in 2002.
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