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Claflin Avenue house
This residential building is one a row of three closely-spaced, detached brick houses with Gothic details on Claflin Avenue, between Eames Place and W. 195th Street in the Bronx, New York City.
Based on a brief item in the NY Times, dated 24 October 1925, it appears this group of houses was designed by Horace Ginsberg (who later changed his name to Ginsbern), a prominent Bronx architect. The text in the paper: "Claflin Avenue, west side, 79.04 feet north of Eames Place - Three 2-story brick dwellings, 30 x 54.4 feet. Keliman & Rosen, owners. Horace Ginsbeg, architect. $25,000"
Ginsberg/Ginsbern is better known for his work designing apartment houses, including the Art Deco style Park Plaza apartments on Jerome Avenue, which is a NYC Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the "Fish Building," on the Grand Concourse.
Claflin Avenue takes its name from the Claflin Estate, a large property in the northern Bronx which was one of the last large properties sold when it was subdivided and put up for auction in 1919 as the area urbanized with the extension of subway lines providing service to Manhattan. H.B. (Horace Brigham) Claflin was a "merchant prince of New York" and when his former estate was put up for sale, an ad for the auction, alluding to his mercantile background, stated that "Real Estate is Merchandise." See: digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/83acfcf0-69ca-0131-665c...
Claflin Avenue house
This residential building is one a row of three closely-spaced, detached brick houses with Gothic details on Claflin Avenue, between Eames Place and W. 195th Street in the Bronx, New York City.
Based on a brief item in the NY Times, dated 24 October 1925, it appears this group of houses was designed by Horace Ginsberg (who later changed his name to Ginsbern), a prominent Bronx architect. The text in the paper: "Claflin Avenue, west side, 79.04 feet north of Eames Place - Three 2-story brick dwellings, 30 x 54.4 feet. Keliman & Rosen, owners. Horace Ginsbeg, architect. $25,000"
Ginsberg/Ginsbern is better known for his work designing apartment houses, including the Art Deco style Park Plaza apartments on Jerome Avenue, which is a NYC Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the "Fish Building," on the Grand Concourse.
Claflin Avenue takes its name from the Claflin Estate, a large property in the northern Bronx which was one of the last large properties sold when it was subdivided and put up for auction in 1919 as the area urbanized with the extension of subway lines providing service to Manhattan. H.B. (Horace Brigham) Claflin was a "merchant prince of New York" and when his former estate was put up for sale, an ad for the auction, alluding to his mercantile background, stated that "Real Estate is Merchandise." See: digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/83acfcf0-69ca-0131-665c...