George F. Pelham

George Frederick Pelham was a Canadian-American architect and the son of George Brown Pelham, who was also an architect.

Life and career

Pelham was born in Ottawa, Ontario, coming to New York City when his father opened an architectural office there in 1875. The elder Pelham designed for the city's Department of Public Parks, and employed his son as a draftsman in his firm.
The first building architected by George F. Pelham was NB 880-1889, at 200 West 99th Street, a 5-story brick and stone flat, 25×89, tin roof, built for Martin J. Barron.
After being privately tutored in architecture, the younger Pelham opened his own office in 1890, specializing in apartment houses and hotels, row houses, and commercial buildings and utilizing the Renaissance Revival, Gothic Revival, Beaux-Arts, and Colonial Revival styles. His work is particularly represented on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He designed buildings for 43 years;. Over his career, George F. Pelham designed at least 1245 buildings in New York City per the Office for Metropolitan History, founded by Christopher Gray (architectural historian).
George F. Pelham at one time provided typical drawings for tenements for $25 a set.
In 1905, he designed the Riverdale apartment building at 67 Riverside Drive for developer John Louis Miller. It opened on October 31, 1907. In 1905 he also designed a new synagogue building for Brooklyn's Beth Jacob Anshe Sholom, based on Arnold Brunner's West Side Synagogue building on Manhattan's West 88th Street. The synagogue is no longer extant.
Pelham was the architect of the Chalfonte Hotel at 200 West 70th Street in Manhattan. Built in 1927, it was later converted to rental apartments and is still standing today.
There are three buildings designed by George F. Pelham in the Sutton Place neighborhood, all located on East 58th Street: 444 East 58th Street, 422 East 58th Street, and Stonehenge 58.
For many years, his office was at 200 West 72nd Street, originally built as a clubhouse for the Colonial Club of New-York. Pelham, like Rosario Candela, chose that address because a number of developers had their offices there, including Paterno & Son and Anthony Campagna.
The last building architected by George F. Pelham was NB 66-1931, at 1082-1084 Amsterdam Avenue, a 19-story and penthouse apartment, 50×90, built for St. Johns House, Inc., Herman A. Axelrod, president.
Pelham's son George Fred Pelham Jr. joined the firm in 1910 and continued the family tradition; he was the architect of a number of New York City buildings, such as Castle Village in 1938-1939, 411 West End Avenue in 1937, and 1150 Park Avenue in 1940.

Works

Building Name	Floors	Year
The Fanwood	6	1890-91
331 W 84th Street	5	1894
18 North Moore Street	5	1894
93 Crosby Street	6	1894-95
347 West Broadway	7	1895-96
495 Broome Street	7	1895-96
397 Washington Street	6	1895-96
303-309 West 103rd Street	3	1895-96
42 Hudson Street	6	1896
16-22 West 68th Street	5	1896
97 Wooster Street	7	1896-97
34-42 West 96th Street	4	1897
616 West 113th Street	4 + basement	1897
32-36 West 85th Street	5	1897
526 West 114th Street	5	1897
424-424 East 58th Street	6	1900
237-241 East 53rd Street	6	1900
444-446 East 58th Street	6	1901
234-236 East 58th Street	6	1901
125 Second Avenue	7	1901
Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun	5	1902
441-461 East 140th Street, The Bronx	5	1902-03
226-228 East 53rd Street	6	1903
Parc 77	13	1903
36 West 22nd Street	7	1903
77 Second Avenue	6	1903
Dream Hotel	13	1904
224-226 Avenue B	6	1904
504-508 East 12th Street	6	1904
315 East 84th Street	6	1905
243-253 East 78th Street	6	1905
Woodward Hall	6	1905
The Fairholm	6	1905
Congregation Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom	Unknown	1905
Elliott Hall	6	1906
Kennedy House	6	1906
Concord Hall	12	1906-07
The Riverdale	9	1907
17 West 17th Street	11	1907
The Lansdown	6	1908
The Cliffden	11	1909
15 East 32nd Street	12	1909
Fowler Court	12	1909
Raymore Court	6	1910
Hadson Hotel	12	1910
133 West 21st Street	12	1911
37 West 28th Street	12	1911
72 Madison Avenue	12	1911
137-139 Grand Street	7	1911
The Woodhull	8	1911
Soundview Court	10	1911-12
36 West 25th Street	16	1912
44 West 28th Street	16	1912
675 West End Avenue	16	1912
Francis Edmund Court	10	1912
385 Edgecombe Avenue	6	1913
123 Second Avenune	5	1913
533-539 West 150th Street	5	1915
Bellguard Apartments	12	1915
Buchova Apartments	12	1915
270 West End Avenue	13	1918
710 West End Avenue	15	1920
Oxford Apartments	15	1922
29 East 64th Street	12	1922
Marboro Apartments	16	1923
135 East 74th Street	12	1923
130 East 94th Street	9	1923
Hotel Plaza Athénée	16	1924
The Florence	16	1924
314 West 77th Street	9	1924
140 West 86th Street	15	1924
161 West 54th Street	15	1924
290 Riverside Drive	15	1924
Bradford Hotel	15	1924
Butler Hall	15	1924
The Gatsby	15	1924
300 Riverside Drive	14	1924
136 East 36th Street	12	1924
Hudson View Gardens	6	1924-25
The Olcott	16	1925
10 West 86th Street	15	1925
1136 5th Avenue	15	1925
910 West End Avenue	15	1925
Surrey Apartments	15	1925
1160 Park Avenue	14	1925
964 Madison Avenue	5	1925
263 West 38th Street	17	1926
1225 Park Avenue	16	1926
20 West 77th Street	16	1926
Park Royal Hotel	16	1926
164 West 79th Street	15	1926
Hotel Milburn	15	1926
585 West End Avenue	17	1927
115 East 86th Street	16	1927
310 West 106th Street	16	1927
The Broadmoor	16	1927
The Marbro	16	1927
175 West 79th Street	16	1927
21 East 90th Street	16	1927
245 Fifth Avenue	26	1927
33 Riverside Drive	17	1927
Beekman Apartments	15	1927
Chalfonte Hotel	15	1927
400 East 58th Street, also known as Stonehenge 58	16	1928
Belvoir Apartments	16	1928
Bedford Hotel	17	1928-29
98 Riverside Drive	17	1929
50 West 96th Street	15	1929
944 Park Avenue	15	1929
400 East 58th Street	16	1929
14 East 90th Street	12	1929
1120 Park Avenue	19	1930
47 East 88th Street	16	1930
Atlantic Bank of New York	16	1930
81 Irving Place	14	1930
St. James House	20	1931
121 East 31st Street	12	1931