30 Morningside Apartments

 interesting place, apartments, movie / film / TV location, French Renaissance (architecture)

Designed c. 1904 by Ernest Flagg (with Charles W. Clinton as consulting architect) as part of St. Luke's Hospital to become the Plant, Scrymser, Travers, and Minturn pavilions. The handsome French Renaissance Revival style buildings were clad in rusticated stone and buff-colored brick, with mansard roofs, taking inspiration from the Luxembourg Palace. The building was intended to be fireproof, constructed with materials that inhibited germs, provide maximum southern exposure and adequate heating and ventilation for patients. Some of Flagg's architectural features actually masked mundane functions: Large chimneys were ventilating shafts, corner turrets held stairs and toilets, and the central pavilion's dome housed the hospital's operating theater and water tank. Each pavillion was differentiated by function, representing the various treatment, scientific, administrative, housing, and other aspects of the increasingly complex modern hospital.

The Plant and Scrymser Pavilions, added to the east of the original complex, facing Morningside Park, provided facilities for wealthy private patients, helping to subsidize other hospital programs. Margaret J. Plant, widow of Henry Bradley Plant, became a major philanthropist with the inheritance of her husband's fortune, earned mainly from Southern railroads, steamship lines, and hotels. The Scrymser Pavilion was named for James Alexander Scrymser, a pioneer in the development of telegraph cable lines in the Western Hemisphere, whose legacy of over one million dollars was received by the hospital after the death of his widow Mary Catherine in 1926.

The building was sold for $111.5M. It has since been converted in 2019 by CetraRudy Architects to residential use for DelShah Capital which resulted in 32 studios, 62 one bedroom, 81 two bedroom, 27 three bedroom, and 4 four bedroom units. Interiors were outfitted with appliances by Blomberg and Bosch. In 2023, the restoration was awarded the Lucy G. Moses award from the New York Landmarks Conservancy. Prior to restoration, the exterior was used as a filming location for S1E1 of the ABC series "Pan Am".

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