735 Walton Avenue

also 740 Gerard Avenue | Concourse Village | built 1927

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

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1927
Tiffany Av. Realty builds a matching twin to 721 Walton Avenue
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This six-story building went up in 1927 in tandem with its neighbor at 721 Walton Avenue, and the two are nearly identical, each entered through a terra-cotta portico of paired Doric pilasters crowned by three urn finials. Since then the original six-over-six sashes have been replaced, the original main entry on the Gerard Avenue side has been bricked in, and the storefronts on that side have been altered and replaced.
“This building was built in conjunction with and is nearly identical in appearance to 721 Walton Avenue…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1927
A shared landscaped courtyard gives 721 and 735 Walton Avenue a garden-apartment feel
The Landmarks Preservation Commission singles out this pair of buildings for the courtyard they share. Many apartment houses in the district were built to their lot lines with large light courts that suggest a garden apartment on a tight lot. At 721 and 735 Walton Avenue, as at the Franz Sigel and Virginia apartments on the Grand Concourse, a common landscaped court between the buildings strengthens that effect.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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