Graham Court
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Italian Renaissance |
| Location | Manhattan, New York City (Harlem) |
| Address | 1921-1935(or 1923-1937) Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, New York, NY 10026 |
| Coordinates | 40°48′12.26″N 73°57′8.28″W / 40.8034056°N 73.9523000°W |
| Construction started | 1898 |
| Completed | 1901 |
| Height | Eight stories |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Clinton and Russell |
| Main contractor | Developed by William Waldorf Astor |
Coordinates: 40°48′12.26″N 73°57′8.28″W / 40.8034056°N 73.9523000°W
Graham Court is a historic Harlem apartment building. It was commissioned by William Waldorf Astor, designed by the architects Clinton and Russell, and constructed in 1899-1901 as part of the great Harlem real-estate boom.
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the building a landmark in 1984, characterizing the Graham Court as "one of the premier reminders of the urban development of Harlem at the turn of the century" and "one of the signal achievements in the history of the apartment house in New York City."The New York Times suggested that it might be Harlem's "equivalent to the Dakota".
It has 800 rooms, currently divided into 93 apartment units. The property is eight stories and contains eight elevators. It runs the full 7th avenue blockfront between 116th & 117th streets, and goes 175 feet deep on the side street.
It is a "boxy mass" designed in the mode of an Italian palazzo. The first two floors of the exterior facade are of rusticated limestone, with tan or gray brick above and a crowning story of foliate terra cotta capped by a copper cornice.
The building is divided horizontally into three parts. The main façade, on Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Boulevard, is divided into five parts vertically as well, having slightly projecting central and end pavilions. The two-story rusticated base, consisting of limestone set in alternating wide and narrow horizontal bands which show only the horizontal joints, has simple rectangular and rises above an areaway with molded watertable and wrought-iron railing.
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