917 Sheridan Avenue

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

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1939
Bio Associates builds a Moderne apartment house at East 163rd Street
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Bio Associates, Inc. built this six-story Moderne apartment house in 1939-40 under permit NB 636-1939, to plans by Charles Kreymborg. The cast-stone entry portico has a stepped parapet, narrow windows screened by cast-stone lattices, and a small octagonal oculus over the door, which has since been filled with a light fixture. A storefront was already in place by the time of a 1940s tax photograph.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1939
Self-taught Bronx architect Charles Kreymborg designs the building
Charles Kreymborg (c. 1876-1941), a native New Yorker who grew up in the Bronx, never studied architecture formally. He learned to draw through the E. G. Saltman Drawing Materials Company and apprenticed with architect Charles Stegmeyer before opening his own practice by 1900. His firm grew into one of the Bronx's main designers, and he alone designed this building, 860 Grand Concourse and 923 Walton Avenue in the district.
“The elder Kreymborg designed the apartment houses at 860 Grand Concourse, 917 Sheridan Avenue and 923 Walton Avenue…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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