Theresa Towers
USA /
New Jersey /
Edgewater /
Seventh Avenue - Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, 2082-2096
World
/ USA
/ New Jersey
/ Edgewater
World / United States / New York
NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, interesting place, historic landmark
The Theresa was developed in 1913 by Gustavus Sidenberg, who manufactured ladies’ collars and then took a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. It appears that the apartment hotel was his only development project, for which he hired the three-year-old firm of George & Edward Blum. Apparently born well-to-do, both brothers went to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
The hotel was designed with lavish ornamentation. Spandrel panels — the rectangles below the windows — consist of diamond shapes made up of crisscross lines, something like the Islamic decoration of the 14th-century Alhambra. But looked at in another light, they could be the zigzag Art Deco of the 1920s. At the third-floor level runs a band of varying ornament, including projecting panels of glazed terra cotta surrounding roughened, sandpaperlike rectangles. From the 10th floor up, the main facade is covered with diaper-patterned terra cotta, a sort of tapestry of diamond shapes. This section ends in superscaled square-topped pediments, another Blum trademark. The window arches of this upper section are great half-rounds of sinuous, Art Nouveau-type ornament surrounding bulging orbs like mushroom caps.
Fidel Castro stayed here in 1960. This historic Harlem landmark is now used as an office building.
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The hotel was designed with lavish ornamentation. Spandrel panels — the rectangles below the windows — consist of diamond shapes made up of crisscross lines, something like the Islamic decoration of the 14th-century Alhambra. But looked at in another light, they could be the zigzag Art Deco of the 1920s. At the third-floor level runs a band of varying ornament, including projecting panels of glazed terra cotta surrounding roughened, sandpaperlike rectangles. From the 10th floor up, the main facade is covered with diaper-patterned terra cotta, a sort of tapestry of diamond shapes. This section ends in superscaled square-topped pediments, another Blum trademark. The window arches of this upper section are great half-rounds of sinuous, Art Nouveau-type ornament surrounding bulging orbs like mushroom caps.
Fidel Castro stayed here in 1960. This historic Harlem landmark is now used as an office building.
s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1843.p
hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015034804636?urlappend=%3Bseq...
hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015086699355?urlappend=%3Bseq...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Theresa
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 40°48'31"N 73°56'56"W
- Central Park 2.9 km
- Green-Wood Cemetery 17 km
- Fort Hancock Historic Core 37 km
- Hartshorne Woods County Park 46 km
- Donnell Estate (1902 - 1927) 49 km
- Bell Works Holmdel Complex 52 km
- Fort Monmouth Reuse and Redevelopment Area 55 km
- Ben Franklin Bridge 139 km
- Judge Morris Estate (White Clay Creek State Park) 193 km
- Fort DuPont 196 km
- Harlem (Manhattan, NY) 0.3 km
- South Harlem 0.5 km
- Morningside Heights 1.1 km
- Central Harlem 1.1 km
- East (Spanish) Harlem 1.4 km
- West Harlem 1.5 km
- Manhattan Valley 1.8 km
- Upper West Side 3.3 km
- Manhattan 3.6 km
- Queens 19 km