The Beresford

	The Beresford
	U.S. Historic district; Contributing property
	NYC Landmark
	The Beresford
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Coordinates	40°46′57″N 73°58′19″W / 40.78250°N 73.97194°WCoordinates: 40°46′57″N 73°58′19″W / 40.78250°N 73.97194°W
Built	Various
Part of	Central Park West Historic District (ID82001189)
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	November 9, 1982
Designated NYCL	September 15, 1987

The Beresford is a luxury, 23-floor "pre-war" apartment building at 211 Central Park West, between West 81st and 82nd Streets, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.

Overview[]

Designed by the architect Emery Roth, The Beresford, completed in 1929, is one of the most prestigious addresses in Manhattan and one of the city's most elite co-ops running along Central Park West. In recent years, apartments have sold for between $3 million and $22 million. One unit is currently listed for $62 million, making it one of Manhattan's most expensive properties.^[2] It is one of five Roth apartment blocks on Central Park West, including The El Dorado, The San Remo, The Alden and The Ardsley.^[3] The Beresford is the largest by volume. Its mass is relieved by horizontal belt courses, staggered setbacks governed by the 1916 Zoning Resolution,^[4] which provide some apartments with terraces, and architectural detailing that gives an impression of Georgian houses embedded in the mass. It takes its name from the Hotel Beresford, which had occupied the site since 1889.^[5] The Beresford has two very prominent street-front facades,^[6] crowned by its three distinctive octagonal copper-capped corner towers,^[7] the eastern facade overlooks Central Park; and the southern facade overlooks Theodore Roosevelt Park, the park that contains the American Museum of Natural History.^[8]

The massive block is opened to the west, giving it a U-shape, wrapped round a central court. Three elevators give separate access to small foyers, originally each accessing two apartments of a scale that was eliminated in New York, both by the stock market crash and the new Multiple Dwellings Law.^[9]

Notable residents[]

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Notes[]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "The Beresford at 211 Central Park West in Upper West Side".
^ Alpern, Andrew. Apartments for the Affluent: a Historical Survey of Buildings in New York. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975.
^ The connection is noted by Richard Plunz, A History of Housing in New York City: dwelling type and social change in the American metropolis, 1990:196
^ Gray, Christopher (September 14, 1997). "The Beresford, the San Remo, the Majestic, the El Dorado, the Century; Namesake Precursors of Central Park West's Towers". New York Times. Retrieved September 5, 2009.
^ As well as similarly treated frontage along West 82nd Street
^ The southwest one masks the water tank; the other two corner tower contain multi-level apartments (The Upper West Side Book), the northeast one owned by John McEnroe ((New York Sun) "A Penthouse at the Beresford Is Listed at $28 Million", 2 August 2007 accessed 16 October 2009).
^ Brockmann, Jorg et al. (2002). One Thousand New York Buildings, p. 354., p. 354, at Google Books
^ Pluntz 1990:196 contrasts its amenities with the reduced apartment scale of The El Dorado, The Majestic and The Century, built or completed during the early years of the Great Depression.

References[]

Brockmann, Jorg and Bill Harris. (2002). One Thousand New York Buildings. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal. ISBN 9781579122379; OCLC 48619292

External links[]

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[2] "The Beresford at 211 Central Park West in Upper West Side".

[3] Alpern, Andrew. Apartments for the Affluent: a Historical Survey of Buildings in New York. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975.

[4] The connection is noted by Richard Plunz, A History of Housing in New York City: dwelling type and social change in the American metropolis, 1990:196

[5] Gray, Christopher (September 14, 1997). "The Beresford, the San Remo, the Majestic, the El Dorado, the Century; Namesake Precursors of Central Park West's Towers". New York Times. Retrieved September 5, 2009.

[6] As well as similarly treated frontage along West 82nd Street

[7] The southwest one masks the water tank; the other two corner tower contain multi-level apartments (The Upper West Side Book), the northeast one owned by John McEnroe ((New York Sun) "A Penthouse at the Beresford Is Listed at $28 Million", 2 August 2007 accessed 16 October 2009).

[8] Brockmann, Jorg et al. (2002). One Thousand New York Buildings, p. 354., p. 354, at Google Books

[9] Pluntz 1990:196 contrasts its amenities with the reduced apartment scale of The El Dorado, The Majestic and The Century, built or completed during the early years of the Great Depression.

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