Mini Course: Art Deco on the Upper West Side – Part 1

Landmark West! is sponsoring a two-part series exploring the Art Deco Architecture of the Upper West Side.  For more information and to register, click here.

Though Art Deco began in New York City as a skyscraper style, it soon spread to other building types.  One walk along Central Park West (5/17) and a second along Broadway and Riverside Drive (5/23) offer a close look at the Art Deco buildings that helped create Manhattan’s major residential skyline.  We will learn about many famous Upper West Side apartment buildings including the Century, the Majestic, and the El Dorado, as well as the Normandy and the Master Apartments.  Other buildings included in the tour are the Broadway Fashion Building, four-stories of commercial space in a Moderne glass box; Joan of Arc Junior High School (once known as “the skyscraper school”); Boak & Paris’s Midtown Theater (now Metro Theater); and one of Manhattan’s last surviving Horn & Hardart automat buildings (with splendid Art Deco terra-cotta).