690 Gerard Avenue

also 131 East 153rd Street | Concourse Village | built 1935

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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. 1935

    Robert E. Golden designs an Art Deco apartment house at Gerard Avenue and East 153rd Street

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    The Gerard-153d Street Corp. built this six-story building in 1935 under permit 474 of that year to designs by Robert E. Golden. Its beige and orange brick is worked into a rusticated base, horizontal and vertical bands and striated spandrel panels, and the corner windows wrap around, rounded where the west and south facades meet. The cast-stone entry portico has a stepped pediment with narrow windows on either side of the door.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1935

    Developer Abraham Stillman heads the company behind 690 Gerard Avenue

    Abraham Stillman was president of the corporation that developed this building. He also led the Walpark Building Co., which built the similar 711 Walton Avenue, and the Bandes Stillman Construction Co., credited with three buildings close by at 109 East 153rd Street and 691 and 705 Gerard Avenue, all within the Grand Concourse Historic District.

    “Abraham Stillman, president of the Walpark Building Co., was also president of corporation that developed this building…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1935

    Former draftsman Robert E. Golden designs the building after praised garden-apartment work

    Robert E. Golden (1892-1965), born in New York, listed himself as a draftsman in 1920 and was in partnership with Nathan Rotholz from 1923 to 1925. Around 1927 he designed a mews of six shallow U-shaped buildings around a terraced garden near Pelham Parkway, which historian Richard Plunz ranked among the city's best of its kind. In the historic district he designed two Art Deco buildings, this one and 711 Walton Avenue; in 1942 he worked for Alfred Hopkins Associates.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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