Our current penthouse apartment project at 370 Central Park West is situated in a classic 1918 example of half-timbered Tudor Revival architecture that’s unusual for New York.
Designed and built by Fred F. French Company, the building has considerable frontage of W 97th Street, broken up by wide and deep light courts.
The courts create an illusion of a micro community instead of a single apartment building and were originally walled in at street level, to create private gardens. The walls have since been replaced by iron fences. The building was converted to a cooperative in 1982.
The Fred F. French Company developed Tudor City from 1927-1932. The company also designed Gardens Apartment (now Tennis View Apartments) in Forest Hills – a smaller version of 370 Central Park West “more adapted to country use.”
Interestingly, 370 Central Park West is just outside NYC’s Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District, but just inside the National Register of Historic Places’ Central Park Historic District.
Marvin Custom Aluminum Clad Signature Double-Hung and Casement windows were selected to revive this unique apartment with a one of a kind double-height vaulted living room overlooking the bronze, copper and stone upper facade, roof and steeple of the former building of the First Church of Christ, Scientist — described by New York Times architectural historian Christopher Gray as "one of the city's most sumptuous churches.”
