George_F._Pelham

George F. Pelham

George F. Pelham

American architect

George Frederick Pelham (1867[1] – February 7, 1937) was an American architect and the son of George Brown Pelham, who was also an architect.[2]

George F. Pelham.
The entrance to 112 East 17th Street (1890-91), built as the Fanwood Hotel, between Union Square East and Irving Place in the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan
34-42 West 96th Street (1897), five townhouses in Renaissance Revival stye between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue in the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan
Window treatment on the Hotel Bedford (1928-29), 118 East 40th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan
A balcony at 81 Irving Place (1930) at the corner of East 19th Street in Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan

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. 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 and Colonial Revival styles. His work is particularly represented on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He designed buildings for 43 years;[3] his final building was the Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company Building.

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.[4]

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.[5] The synagogue is no longer extant.

For many years the 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.[6]

Pelham's son George Fred Pelham Jr. joined the firm in 1910[3] 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

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References

Notes

  1. [1]
    Harris and Shockley (1998), p.8
  2. [2]
    Shockley, Jay. Gansevoort Market Historic District Designation Report part 1 Archived 2012-10-19 at the Wayback Machine, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (September 9, 2003)
  3. [3]
    Presa (2010), p.177
  4. [4]
    George Frederick Pelham Archived 2016-03-24 at the Wayback Machine, Brief Biographies of American Architects: Who Died Between 1897 and 1947, Society of Architectural Historians. Retrieved 3 April 2007.
  5. [5]
    Kaufman, David. Shul with a Pool: The "synagogue-center" in American Jewish History, Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England, 1999, ISBN 978-0-87451-893-1, pp. 186–187.
  6. [6]
    See the Building Permits Database put online by the Office for Metropolitan History. Pelham moved to West 72nd Street in 1918 or 1919, from 30 East 42nd Street. Candela worked at 200 West 72nd Street from 1922 to 1928, when he moved to 578 Madison Avenue.
  7. [7]
    " 77 Second Avenue" at the New York Landmarks website
  8. [8]
    "Village Preservation's Building Blocks web resource". Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  9. [9]
    "81 Irving Place" at the Gramercy Neighborhood Associates website
  10. [10]
    York City Geographic Information Service map[permanent dead link] Accessed:August 23, 2012
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    White and Willensky (2000), p.412
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    White and Willensky (2000), p.529
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    "314 West 77th Street". LANDMARK WEST. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  14. [14]
    NYCLPC (2009), p.192
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    NYCLPC (2009), p.189
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    Presa (2010), p.79
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    White and Willensky (2000), p.661
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    Rasenberger, Jim. The Old Neighbors The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-05-22
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    "Hadson Hotel" on SkyscraperPages.com
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    "Upper West Side Building Tendencies," Real Estate Record and Guide (v. 85, no. 2181, January 1, 1910), p. 5.
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    "Apartment Buildings of the Metropolis". Retrieved October 12, 2011.
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    "Morningside Heights Historic District 3-D Map". NYC Landmark Preservation Commission. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
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    Pearson (1989), p.485
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    "Apartment Buildings of the Metropolis". Retrieved March 12, 2014.
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    Kaufman, David (1999). Shul with a pool : the "synagogue-center" in American Jewish history. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England. pp. 186–189. ISBN 0-87451-876-8. OCLC 39182482.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
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    Irma and Paul Milstein Division of U.S. History, Local History & Genealogy, The New York Public Library Main Branch. "A Model Tenement House". New York Public Library Digital Collections. Retrieved 10 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  27. [27]
    Pearson (1989), p.850
  28. [28]
    White and Willensky (2000), p.550
  29. [29]
    Pearson, Marjorie and Urbanelli, Elisa. Upper West Side / Central Park West Historic District Designation Report Volume 3: Building Entries New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (April 24, 1990) p.709
  30. [30]
    White and Willensky (2000), p.363
  31. [31]
    Wade, Pearson and Dillon (1973), p.168
  32. [32]
    Pearson (1991), p.83
  33. [33]
    White and Willensky (2000), p.358
  34. [34]
    Wade, Pearson and Dillon (1973), p.153
  35. [35]
    Wade, Pearson and Dillon (1973), p.64
  36. [36]
    Bradley, Betsy. Tribeca North Historic District Designation Report Archived 2012-08-06 at the Wayback Machine New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (December 8, 1992) p.71
  37. [37]
    White and Willensky (2000), pp.336-337
  38. [38]
    Presa (2010), p.71
  39. [39]
    Pearson (1991), p.314
  40. [40]
    Harris and Shockley (1998), p.38
  41. [41]
    Dunlap, David W. (13 July 2011). "Damaged Synagogue Is an Architectural Milestone Too". City Room Blog. New York Times.
  42. [42]
    The History of the Riverdale Archived 2008-05-10 at the Wayback Machine, 2007, Kelsey & Associates, Inc.
  43. [43]
    "George F. Pelham" on Phorio.com (addresses of named buildings)

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