737 Park Avenue

also 111 East 71st Street | Upper East Side | built 1940

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1940
Sylvan Bien designs an Art Moderne apartment house at 737 Park Avenue
In 1939 the 737 Park Avenue Corp. tore down seven rowhouses at Park Avenue and 71st Street, and Sylvan Bien designed the replacement. The Austrian-born architect mixed French neo-Classical details into an Art Moderne design, with a five-story limestone base under 14 stories of red brick. Apartments ranged from three to eight rooms.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1940
April 19
Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews leases an apartment before the building opens
Roy Chapman Andrews, the naturalist and explorer who directed the American Museum of Natural History, signed a lease on this date while the building was still under construction. By then he had written ten books, including Across Mongolian Plains. The extinct mammal Andrewsarchus was named for him.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
2011
737 Park Avenue's rental apartments are converted to condominiums
After a 2011 sale, the 104 rental apartments were reconfigured into 56 resident-owned units. The full-floor penthouse sold in June 2015 for $32.6 million, marketed as a "white box" without interior walls or finishes.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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