Walcourse Arms

955 Walton Avenue | Concourse | built 1927

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1926
Ellis, Aaronson & Heidrich design the Colonial Revival Walcourse Arms
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Walcourse Arms was filed as NB 3079-1926 and built in 1926-27 for the 955 Walton Ave. Corp. to designs by Ellis, Aaronson & Heidrich. Unlike its Renaissance Revival neighbors, it is Colonial Revival: Corinthian columns at the entry portico hold up an entablature whose frieze spells out the building's name, metal balconettes perch on brackets at the second and sixth stories, and fan pediments crown the outer sixth-story windows.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
A new three-man firm, one partner a Russian immigrant, takes on Walcourse Arms
Edmund Lewis Ellis, a Nebraska native in practice in New York by 1902, formed the firm in 1926 with Stephen L. Heidrich, born in Union, New Jersey and apparently trained as both engineer and architect, and Harry Aaronson. Aaronson had come from Russia with his family in 1905 and drafted for Gronenberg & Leuchtag before the partnership. Walcourse Arms is the firm's only building in the Grand Concourse Historic District. After Ellis died in 1929, Heidrich and Aaronson worked together until 1937.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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