George F. Pelham

George F. Pelham.
The entrance to 112 East 17th Street (1890-91), built as the Fanwood Hotel, between Union Square East and Irving Place in the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan
34-42 West 96th Street (1897), five townhouses in Renaissance Revival stye between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan
444 East 58th St Façade, example of Corinthian columns
Window treatment on the Hotel Bedford (1928-29), 118 East 40th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan
A balcony at 81 Irving Place (1930) at the corner of East 19th Street in Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan

George Frederick Pelham (1867[1] – February 7, 1937) was a Canadian-American architect and the son of George Brown Pelham, who was also an architect.[2]

Life and career

Pelham was born in Ottawa, Ontario, coming to New York City when his father opened an architectural office there in 1875. The elder Pelham designed for the city's Department of Public Parks, and employed his son as a draftsman in his firm.

The first building architected by George F. Pelham was NB 880-1889, at 200 West 99th Street, a 5-story brick and stone flat, 25×89, tin roof, built for Martin J. Barron.[3]

After being privately tutored in architecture, the younger Pelham opened his own office in 1890, specializing in apartment houses and hotels, row houses, and commercial buildings and utilizing the Renaissance Revival, Gothic Revival, Beaux-Arts, and Colonial Revival styles. His work is particularly represented on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He designed buildings for 43 years;.[4] Over his career, George F. Pelham designed at least 1245 buildings in New York City per the Office for Metropolitan History, founded by Christopher Gray (architectural historian).

George F. Pelham at one time provided typical drawings for tenements (24 apartments on 6 floors, on a lot 25-feet wide) for $25 a set.[5]

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.[6] The synagogue is no longer extant.

Pelham was 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.[7]

There are three buildings designed by George F. Pelham in the Sutton Place neighborhood, all located on East 58th Street: 444 East 58th Street, 422 East 58th Street, and Stonehenge 58 (400 East 58th Street).

For many years, his office was at 200 West 72nd Street, originally built as a clubhouse for the Colonial Club of New-York. Pelham, like Rosario Candela, chose that address because a number of developers had their offices there, including Paterno & Son and Anthony Campagna.[8]

The last building architected by George F. Pelham was NB 66-1931, at 1082-1084 Amsterdam Avenue, a 19-story and penthouse apartment, 50×90, built for St. Johns House, Inc., Herman A. Axelrod, president.[3]

Pelham's son George Fred Pelham Jr. joined the firm in 1910[4] and continued the family tradition; he was the architect of a number of New York City buildings, such as Castle Village in 1938-1939, 411 West End Avenue in 1937, and 1150 Park Avenue in 1940.

Works

Building Name Floors Year
The Fanwood (112-114 East 17th Street) 6 1890-91[9]
331 W 84th Street 5 1894
18 North Moore Street 5 1894[10]
93 Crosby Street 6 1894-95[11]
347 West Broadway 7 1895-96[12]
495 Broome Street 7 1895-96[13]
397 Washington Street 6 1895-96[14]
303-309 West 103rd Street (row houses) 3 1895-96[15]
42 Hudson Street 6 1896[16]
16-22 West 68th Street (row houses) 5 1896[17]
97 Wooster Street 7 1896-97[18]
34-42 West 96th Street (row houses) 4 1897[19]
616 West 113th Street (row house) 4 + basement 1897
32-36 West 85th Street (row houses) 5 1897[20]
526 West 114th Street 5 1897[21]
422-424 East 58th Street 6 1900[3]
237-241 East 53rd Street (NB 1289-1900, two 6-story and basement brick and stone flats, 27.2×86.4, Original owner: Jacob Kassewitz) 6 1900[3]
444-446 East 58th Street (NB 418-1901, 6-story brick flat and store, 41.6×84.5, Original owner: Levy & Haft) 6 1901[3]
234-236 East 58th Street (NB 774-1901, two 6-story brick tenements, 30×88.9, Original owner: Morris Jacobson) 6 1901[3]
125 Second Avenue 7 1901[22]
Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun (117 East 85th Street)[23] 5 1902[23]
441-461 East 140th Street, The Bronx (tenements) 5 1902-03[24]
226-228 East 53rd Street (NB 175-1903, 6-story brick tenement, 40×87.5, Original owner: Abraham Silverson, Germania Bank Building) 6 1903[3]
Parc 77 (50 West 77th Street) 13 1903
36 West 22nd Street 7 1903[25]
77 Second Avenue 6 1903[26]
Dream Hotel (210 West 55th Street) 13 1904
224-226 Avenue B 6 1904[27]
504-508 East 12th Street 6 1904
315 East 84th Street 6 1905
243-253 East 78th Street 6 1905
Woodward Hall (50 East 96th Street) 6 1905
The Fairholm (503 W. 121st Street) 6 1905[28]
Congregation Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom (274–276 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn) Unknown 1905[29]
[Eleanor Thomas] Elliott Hall (49 Claremont Avenue)[30] 6 1906
Kennedy House (47 Claremont Avenue) 6 1906
Concord Hall (468 Riverside Drive) 12 1906-07
The Riverdale (67 Riverside Drive) 9 1907
17 West 17th Street 11 1907[31]
The Lansdown[32] (352-354 West 46th Street, now the Lyric) 6 1908
The Cliffden (265 Riverside Drive) 11 1909[33]
15 East 32nd Street 12 1909
Fowler Court (400 Riverside Drive) 12 1909
Raymore Court (238 West 106th Street) 6 1910[34]
Hadson Hotel (31 West 34th Street) 12 1910[35]
133 West 21st Street 12 1911
37 West 28th Street 12 1911
72 Madison Avenue 12 1911
137-139 Grand Street 7 1911[36]
The Woodhull (62 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn) 8 1911[37]
Soundview Court (260 Convent Avenue) 10 1911-12[38]
36 West 25th Street 16 1912
44 West 28th Street 16 1912
675 West End Avenue 16 1912
Francis Edmund Court (423 West 120th Street) 10 1912
385 Edgecombe Avenue 6 1913[39]
123 Second Avenune 5 (formerly 3) 1913
533-539 West 150th Street (row houses) 5 1915
Bellguard Apartments (216 West 89th Street) 12 1915
Buchova Apartments 12 1915
270 West End Avenue 13 1918
710 West End Avenue 15 1920
Oxford Apartments (205 West 88th Street) 15 1922
29 East 64th Street 12 1922
Marboro Apartments (171 West 79th Street) 16 1923
135 East 74th Street 12 1923
130 East 94th Street 9 1923
Hotel Plaza Athénée (37 East 64th Street) 16 1924
The Florence (545 West End Avenue) 16 1924
314 West 77th Street 9 1924[40]
140 West 86th Street 15 1924
161 West 54th Street 15 1924
290 Riverside Drive 15 1924
Bradford Hotel (210 West 70th Street) 15 1924
Butler Hall (400 West 119th Street) 15 1924
The Gatsby (65 East 96th Street) 15 1924
300 Riverside Drive 14 1924
136 East 36th Street 12 1924
Hudson View Gardens (116 Pinehurst Avenue) 6 1924-25[41]
The Olcott (27 West 72nd Street) 16 1925
10 West 86th Street 15 1925
1136 5th Avenue 15 1925
910 West End Avenue 15 1925
Surrey Apartments (215 West 83rd Street) 15 1925
1160 Park Avenue 14 1925
964 Madison Avenue 5 1925[42]
263 West 38th Street 17 1926
1225 Park Avenue 16 1926
20 West 77th Street 16 1926
Park Royal Hotel (23 West 73rd Street) 16 1926
164 West 79th Street 15 1926
Hotel Milburn (242 West 76th Street) 15 1926
585 West End Avenue 17 1927
115 East 86th Street 16 1927
310 West 106th Street 16 1927
The Broadmoor (235 West 102nd Street) 16 1927
The Marbro (171 West 79th Street) 16 1927[43]
175 West 79th Street 16 1927[43]
21 East 90th Street 16 1927[43]
245 Fifth Avenue 26 1927
33 Riverside Drive 17 1927
Beekman Apartments (30 Beekman Place) 15 1927
Chalfonte Hotel (200 West 70th Street) 15 1927
400 East 58th Street (NB 499-1928, 16-story brick apartment, 111×100, Original owner: Ashwood Realty Corp., Samuel Silver, president), also known as Stonehenge 58[44] 16 1928[3]
Belvoir Apartments (470 West End Avenue) 16 1928
Bedford Hotel (118 East 40th Street) 17 1928-29
98 Riverside Drive 17 1929
50 West 96th Street 15 1929
944 Park Avenue 15 1929
400 East 58th Street 16 1929[43]
14 East 90th Street 12 1929[43]
1120 Park Avenue 19 1930
47 East 88th Street 16 1930
Atlantic Bank of New York (960 Sixth Avenue) 16 1930
81 Irving Place 14 1930[45]
St. James House (501 West 113th Street) 20 1931
121 East 31st Street 12 1931
Sources (unless otherwise noted):[46][47]

References

Notes

  1. ^ Harris and Shockley (1998), p.8
  2. ^ Shockley, Jay. Gansevoort Market Historic District Designation Report part 1 Archived 2012-10-19 at the Wayback Machine, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (September 9, 2003)
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Permit Search". Office for Metropolitan History. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
  4. ^ a b Presa (2010), p.177
  5. ^ Elliott, Cecil D. The American architect from the colonial era to the present. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co. p. 122. ISBN 0786413913. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ George Frederick Pelham Archived 2016-03-24 at the Wayback Machine, Brief Biographies of American Architects: Who Died Between 1897 and 1947, Society of Architectural Historians. Retrieved 3 April 2007.
  8. ^ [1] See the Building Permits Database put online by the Office for Metropolitan History. Pelham moved to West 72nd Street in 1918 or 1919, from 30 East 42nd Street. Candela worked at 200 West 72nd Street from 1922 to 1928, when he moved to 578 Madison Avenue.
  9. ^ Harris and Shockley (1998), p.38
  10. ^ Pearson (1991), p.314
  11. ^ Presa (2010), p.71
  12. ^ Wade, Pearson and Dillon (1973), p.153
  13. ^ Wade, Pearson and Dillon (1973), p.64
  14. ^ Bradley, Betsy. Tribeca North Historic District Designation Report Archived 2012-08-06 at the Wayback Machine New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (December 8, 1992) p.71
  15. ^ White and Willensky (2000), pp.336-337
  16. ^ Pearson (1991), p.83
  17. ^ White and Willensky (2000), p.358
  18. ^ Wade, Pearson and Dillon (1973), p.168
  19. ^ Pearson, Marjorie and Urbanelli, Elisa. Upper West Side / Central Park West Historic District Designation Report Volume 3: Building Entries Archived 2012-11-03 at the Wayback Machine New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (April 24, 1990) p.709
  20. ^ White and Willensky (2000), p.363
  21. ^ Dolkart, Andrew S. (1998). Morningside Heights: A History of its Architecture and Development. Columbia University Press. p. 349. ISBN 978-0-231-07850-4. OCLC 37843816.
  22. ^ "Village Preservation's Building Blocks web resource". Retrieved 2019-05-14.[permanent dead link]
  23. ^ a b Dunlap, David W. (13 July 2011). "Damaged Synagogue Is an Architectural Milestone Too". City Room Blog. New York Times.
  24. ^ White and Willensky (2000), p.550
  25. ^ Pearson (1989), p.850
  26. ^ " 77 Second Avenue" Archived 2013-03-11 at the Wayback Machine at the New York Landmarks website
  27. ^ Irma and Paul Milstein Division of U.S. History, Local History & Genealogy, The New York Public Library Main Branch. "A Model Tenement House". New York Public Library Digital Collections. Retrieved 10 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  28. ^ "Apartment Buildings of the Metropolis". Retrieved March 12, 2014.
  29. ^ Kaufman, David (1999). Shul with a pool : the "synagogue-center" in American Jewish history. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England. pp. 186–189. ISBN 0-87451-876-8. OCLC 39182482.
  30. ^ "Morningside Heights Historic District 3-D Map". NYC Landmark Preservation Commission. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  31. ^ Pearson (1989), p.485
  32. ^ "Apartment Buildings of the Metropolis". Retrieved October 12, 2011.
  33. ^ [2]"Upper West Side Building Tendencies," Real Estate Record and Guide (v. 85, no. 2181, January 1, 1910), p. 5.
  34. ^ Rasenberger, Jim. (9 March 2003). The Old Neighbors The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-05-22
  35. ^ "Hadson Hotel" on SkyscraperPages.com
  36. ^ Presa (2010), p.79
  37. ^ White and Willensky (2000), p.661
  38. ^ NYCLPC (2009), p.189
  39. ^ NYCLPC (2009), p.192
  40. ^ "314 West 77th Street". LANDMARK WEST. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  41. ^ White and Willensky (2000), p.529
  42. ^ White and Willensky (2000), p.412
  43. ^ a b c d e York City Geographic Information Service map[permanent dead link] Accessed:August 23, 2012
  44. ^ "Stonehenge 58". Stonehenge NYC. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
  45. ^ "81 Irving Place" at the Gramercy Neighborhood Associates website
  46. ^ The History of the Riverdale Archived 2008-05-10 at the Wayback Machine, 2007, Kelsey & Associates, Inc.
  47. ^ "George F. Pelham" on Phorio.com (addresses of named buildings)

Bibliography

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