More Notable Architecture Near Harlem's Regal Riverside Drive!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In West Harlem, where the same developers and architects who were responsible for the Upper West Side were active, several Broadway apartment houses were as palatial as their Riverside Drive counterparts. A fine example are two built

in 1913, on the west side of Broadway at 150th through 151st Streets.  Named the Northold and Southold Apartments these handsome but subdued buildings were by Mulliken & Moeller.

 

Harry Mulliken and Edgar Moeller had both been born in the early 1870's.  They met as students and each graduated from Columbia University's School of Architecture in 1895. Before joining forces in 1902, Mulliken had worked with the Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham and then the New York designer Ernest Flagg.

 

Their practice, which specialized in luxury apartments, was notable for employing voluptuously modeled masonry, both stone and terra cotta, judiciously juxtaposed with tapestry and Roman brick, laid in elaborate patterns. Crowned by a copper cornice, Northold and Southold Apartments, exemplary of their distinguished ouvre, boast particularly notable lobbies.  Increasinly a century ago, marble hall with moasic floors were seen as most suitable to forming a good initail impression in beter multipl dwellings.  Enduringly impressive, and therefore ecconomic in the long term, shuch lobbies were costly.  Trrra cotta or glazed art-tiles, somtimes even combined with brick, were equally long-lastiing, but at a fraction of the expense.  Employing tiles on both the walls and floor, supplied by the Encastic Tile Co. of Zanesville, Ohio, Mulliken & Moeller used modern mass-produced decorations to create a richly textured space redolent of olde-world charm

 

 

 

 

Mulliken & Moeller, 1913, 150th through 151st Streets and Broadway. Northold and Southold Apartments.