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Cleburne Building

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Alternative names
  
924 West End Avenue

Country
  
United States

Opened
  
1913

Architecture firm
  
Schwartz & Gross

Structural system
  
Skyscraper

Type
  
Condominium

Completed
  
1913

Town or city
  
New York City

Construction started
  
1912

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Architectural style
  
Arts and Crafts Movement

Address
  
West End Avenue and 105th Street

Cleburne Building (also known as 924 West End Avenue) is an apartment building located at West End Avenue and 105th Street in Manhattan, New York City.

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Map of Cleburne Building, New York, NY 10025, USA

The Cleburne was completed in 1913 by real estate developer Harry Schiff on the site of the mansion of Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus who perished on the RMS Titanic. There is a memorial to Mr. and Mrs. Straus in nearby Straus Park.

The building, which is designed in the Arts and Crafts Movement style has a handsome porte-cochère.

Notable residents

  • Madeleine L'Engle
  • Estelle Parsons
  • Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter
  • Charlie Smalls, composer of "The Wiz"
  • References

    Cleburne Building Wikipedia