CONTEMPORARY NY
photo of 9 West 121st Street (detail) New York Architecture Images-Harlem and the Heights

4 to 22 and 13 to 21 West 121st Street

architect

Cleverdon and Putzel

location

4 to 22 and 13 to 21 West 121st Street

date

1887-90

images

photo of 4 - 14 West 121st Streetphoto of 13 - 21st West 121st Street

 

photo of 9 West 121st Street (detail)photo of 17 West 121st Street (detail)
The firm of Cleverdon and Putzel, architects of speculative row houses, was the most prolific design team in the Mount Morris Park area. This series of homes (1887-90) is typical of middle-class housing created by untrained designers for developers who realized reasonable profits by employing non-professionals. The capriciously carved details in the form of humorous faces add a liveliness to the otherwise standard brownstone design of the time. One wonders who the models for these characters were, and if they were flattered by their likenesses!

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