Graham Court
1923-1937 Seventh Avenue

Architect: Clinton and Russell

Builder: The Astor Family

Built: 1901

Graham Court, the prototype for the Apthorp built in 1908 on West 79th Street, was designed a few years earlier by the same architects. It is smaller than its more famous relative and more modest in its use of materials and ornamentation, but it does boast a handsome two-story Palladian entrance passageway to the interior court. The plan is similar to that of the Apthorp, the circulation being divided among four passenger elevators, each of which serves three apartments. The suites themselves generally contain spacious front rooms, usually including a very large foyer or reception room. The bedrooms, however, are quite small, and the apartments, with the exception of the corner units, have awkward circulation patterns and wholly inadequate closet space.

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Housing Corpora-
tives (Brian
mons). Engineers:
Arthur L. Zigas (me-
Coffey and Levine);
contractor: HRH

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Architects: Davis,
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berg & Associates;
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Redevelopment
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engineers: Robert
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uction Corp.
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associates (Harold
Robert Rosenwas-
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Douglass Ur-

Cathedral Parkway's location
places it at the edge of a uni-
versity community and near
the northern boundary of
Central Park. The architects
have worked hard and with
considerable success to break
down the scale of what
might otherwise have been
an unendurably massive
structure in this modestly-
scaled residential neighbor-
hood.

August 1972

Eighth Avenue

West 132 Street

West 131 Street

St. Nicholas Park House
New York
Bond-Ryder Associates

fig. 38a: east elevation

fig. 38b: detail plan of apartments

fig. 38c: typical floor plan

fig. 39: site plan