Upper West Side, West End Avenue Between 91st and 90th Streets

Mary Sargent © 2008 …………………………………….. click to enlarge



Mary Sargent © 2008 …………………………………….. click to enlarge



Mary Sargent © 2008 …………………………………….. click to enlarge

Above are three shots which, together, show the entire east side of the street. North end, middle section and south end. You're going to have to pay close attention here, so drop everything and concentrate.

Okay, notice in the first photo that the end building is of a completely different style of architecture from the buildings next to it. I don't know what it's called (Italianate?), but I know it's different. It has ionic columns, and reddish brick and stripes at the top, whereas next to it is a row of typical New York brownstones.

In the next photograph, we see a good midsection of the brownstones, noticing that they are almost symmetrically organized. The windows at the top are entirely symmetrical, i.e., 2 square windows, 4 round windows, 4 square windows, 4 round windows, 2 square windows (you have to look at all three photographs to check this out). So they seem to have all been built by the same builder.

In the last photograph, we see that the end building is identical to the one on the north end. I don't know what to make of this. Was the entire block built as one? But why such disparate architecture? Or did some different architect just happen to obtain the two end lots? What really happened here?

See map.