Yankee Arms

811 Walton Avenue | also 127 East 157th Street, 129 East 157th Street, 133 East 157th Street | Concourse Village | built 1927

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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.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1926

    Franklin, Bates & Heindsmann design an H-plan apartment house for the Henora Corp.

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    Filed as NB 2593-1926 and finished in 1927, this six-story Renaissance Revival building has addresses on Gerard Avenue, Walton Avenue and East 157th Street. Its H-shaped plan opens into ample courtyards on both its west and east facades, with smaller light wells to the north and south. The capital has terra-cotta window frames with triangular pediments and garlanded panels under a modillioned cornice, and stores, visible in a 1940s tax photo, may date from the start.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1926

    Two alumni of Charles Kreymborg's office and a third partner design the building

    Edward W. Franklin and Allan Bradley Bates met while working in the office of the architect Charles Kreymborg and became partners in 1925. Theodore Edward Heindsmann joined them a year later, forming Franklin, Bates & Heindsmann. The Landmarks Preservation Commission notes that little is known about the three men, born in 1893, 1898 and 1890 respectively.

    “Franklin and Bates met in the office of Charles Kreymborg and formed a partnership in 1925 that Heindsmann…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1939

    October 29

    A newspaper ad calls the building the Yankee Arms, trading on the nearby stadium

    A classified advertisement in the New York Times on October 29, 1939, named this apartment house the Yankee Arms. The Landmarks Preservation Commission calls the name a plain attempt to cash in on the building's closeness to Yankee Stadium.

    “…was at one point referred to by the name Yankee Arms, an obvious attempt to capitalize on the building's proximity to the stadium…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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