George F. Pelham

George Frederick Pelham (b. c. 1857 - d. February 7, 1937) was an American architect. He worked for 43 years during which he designed numerous apartment buildings and office buildings in New York City. His final building was the Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company Building.

Mr. Pelham was also the architect of the Chalfonte Hotel at 200 West 70th Street in Manhattan. Built in 1927, it was later converted to rental apartments and is still standing today.[1]

In 1905, he designed the Riverdale apartment building at 67 Riverside Drive for developer John Louis Miller. It opened on October 31, 1907. In 1905 he also designed a new synagogue building for Brooklyn's Beth Jacob Anshe Sholom, based on Arnold Brunner's West Side Synagogue building on Manhattan's West 88th Street.[2]

Building List [3]

Building Name Floors Year
1. St. James House 20 1931
2. 121 East 31st Street 12 1931
3. 1120 Park Avenue 19 1930
4. 47 East 88th Street 16 1930
5. Atlantic Bank 16 1930
6. 81 Irving Place 14 1930
7. 98 Riverside Drive 17 1929
8. Bedford Hotel 17 1929
9. 50 West 96th Street 15 1929
10. 944 Park Avenue 15 1929
11. Belvoir Apartments 16 1928
12. 245 Fifth Avenue 26 1927
13. 33 Riverside Drive 17 1927
14. 585 West End Avenue 17 1927
15. 115 East 86th Street 16 1927
16. 310 West 106th Street 16 1927
17. The Broadmoor 16 1927
18. Beekman Apartments 15 1927
19. Chalfonte Hotel 15 1927
20. 263 West 38th Street 17 1926
21. 1225 Park Avenue 16 1926
22. 20 West 77th Street 16 1926
23. Park Royal Hotel 16 1926
24. 164 West 79th Street 15 1926
25. Hotel Milburn 15 1926
26. The Olcott 16 1925
27. 10 West 86th Street 15 1925
28. 1136 5th Avenue 15 1925
29. 910 West End Avenue 15 1925
30. Surrey Apartments 15 1925
31. 1160 Park Avenue 14 1925
32. Hotel Plaza Athénée 16 1924
33. The Florence 16 1924
34. 140 West 86th Street 15 1924
35. 161 West 54th Street 15 1924
36. 290 Riverside Drive 15 1924
37. Bradford Hotel 15 1924
38. Butler Hall 15 1924
39. The Gatsby 15 1924
40. 300 Riverside Drive 14 1924
41. 136 East 36th Street 12 1924
42. Marboro Apartments 16 1923
43. 135 East 74th Street 12 1923
44. Oxford Apartments 15 1922
45. 29 East 64th Street 12 1922
46. 710 West End Avenue 15 1920
47. 270 West End Avenue 13 1918
48. Bellguard Apartments 12 1915
49. Buchova Apartments 12 1915
50. 36 West 25th Street 16 1912
51. 44 West 28th Street 16 1912
52. 675 West End Avenue 16 1912
53. 133 West 21st Street 12 1911
54. 37 West 28th Street 12 1911
55. 72 Madison Avenue 12 1911
56. 15 East 32nd Street 12 1909
57. Fowler Court 12 1909
58. The Lansdown[4] (now The Lyric) 6 1908
59. The Riverdale 9 1907
60. Dream Hotel 13 1904
61. 504-508 East 12th Street 6 1904
62. Parc 77 13 1903
63. 175 West 79th Street 16
64. 21 East 90th Street 16
65. 400 East 58th Street 16
66. 14 East 90th Street 12
67. Hadson Hotel 12
68. The Fanwood 6 1890

Notes

  1. ^ George Frederick Pelham, Brief Biographies of American Architects: Who Died Between 1897 and 1947, Society of Architectural Historians. Retrieved 3 April 2007.
  2. ^ Kaufman, David. Shul with a Pool: The "synagogue-center" in American Jewish History, Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England, 1999, ISBN 978-0-87451-893-1, pp. 186–187.
  3. ^ The History of the Riverdale, 2007, Kelsey & Associates, Inc.
  4. ^ "Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}". "Apartment Buildings of the Metropolis". http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=287188&imageID=465604&total=301&num=160&parent_id=286807&word=&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=0&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&imgs=20&pos=180&snum=&e=w. Retrieved 10/12/11.