422 East 58th Street


422 East 58th Street is a historic residential cooperative at 422 East 58th Street on the Sutton Place neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The building was designed by George F. Pelham in the Beaux-Arts style and was built for Simon Morris in 1900 for $40,000, originally as a middle-class walk-up rental building managed. In 1940 the building was upgraded with an elevator. It is one of three George F. Pelham buildings in the Sutton Place neighborhood, together with 444 East 58th Street, from 1901, and Stonehenge 58 from 1928. Both 422 and 444 are in the Beaux-Arts architectural style, while 400 is in the Colonial Revival architecture style.

Site

422 East 58th Street is located at 422 East 58th Street on the Sutton Place neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
As of 1815, the 422 East 58th Street area was farmland. According to The Iconography of Manhattan Island, Block 1369, which is where 444 East 58th Street lies, was at the Thomas C. Pearsall Farm.
By 1879 the street grid had been implemented and two tonhouses had been built, on 422 E 58th Street and on 424 E 58th Street. Close by Riverview Garden had also been erected.
The 1891 map shows no changes.

Architecture

422 East 58th Street was designed by George F. Pelham in the Beaux-Arts style in 1899 and was built by Simon Morris in 1900 for $40,000, originally as a middle-class walk-up rental building. In 1940, the building was upgraded with an elevator.

Form

The building has 6 floors, with 2 apartments per floor, and a basement. The common laundry room is located on the ground floor.

Facade

The facade follows the characteristic tripartite composition of base, shaft, and capital, executed in red brick with a rusticated brownstone base, limestone trim, and terra-cotta ornamentation. Architectural features include arched and keystoned openings, horizontal belt courses, terra-cotta swags and cartouches, and a projecting metal cornice with dentils and modillions.
The main entrance is a recessed brownstone arch framed by voussoirs and accessed by a short stoop with wrought-iron railings. Windows are vertically aligned double-hung sash units set within molded stone surrounds, and upper stories display decorative terra-cotta panels and floral reliefs.
Its design closely parallels Pelham's nearby 444 East 58th Street, also executed in the Beaux-Arts style. Together, they exemplify Pelham's adaptation of Beaux-Arts principles to medium-scale apartment houses in the Sutton Place and Beekman Place districts.

History

In October 1899 Dora Haft and Isaac Haft sold 422 and 424 East 58th Street to Sarah Morris and Simon Morris. A different record from October 20, 1900. stresses the same sale, but of the complete building.
On December 10, 1904, 422 East 58th Street was sold to Bernard Brindze. and was acquired by Joseph B Bloomingdale. During Bernard Brindze's ownership, in 1910, the building was listed at a New York Tribune article as one to be renovated by New York Edison Company to receive modern lighting. 1914's Copartnership and Corporation Directory listed Bernard Brindze as president of Collander Realty Corporation. On January 21, 1928, Collender Realty sold the building to the New York Orthopaedic Hospital. At the time, the building was also known as "The Francis".
On October 15, 1968, Ugo M. Tavella sold the building to Binghamton Properties, which turned the building to 422 East 58th Associates.
On May 5, 1969, 422 East 58th Associates sold the building to Route 303 Properties, which on May 20, 1969, sold it to 422 East 58th Street Realty.
On May 7, 1991, the building was sold to JAL 58 Associates.
On July 30, 2015, Sutton 58 purchased the air rights of 422 East 58th Street.

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