West End Avenue – the stretch of 11th Avenue above W 59th Street – is one of New York’s architectural time capsules. The avenue boasts four historic districts, from W 70th Street to W 94th Street. The West End Preservation Society even argued that the entire avenue should be an historic district.
Personally, I find this half-mile section between W 76th and W 86th to be the most picturesque.
West End Avenue Selected Buildings
Odd-numbered buildings are on the west side of the avenue; even-numbered buildings are on the east side.
- Address/Name | Architect | Year Completed
- W 75th – W 76th Streets
- 333 WEA | Emery Roth | 1925
- 336 WEA | Boak & Paris | 1932
- W 76th – W 77th Streets
- 341 WEA | Lamb & Rich | 1891
- 343 WEA | Lamb & Rich | 1891
- 345 WEA | Lamb & Rich | 1891
- 347 WEA | Lamb & Rich | 1891
- 349 WEA | Lamb & Rich | 1891
- 351 WEA | Lamb & Rich | 1891
- 353 WEA | Lamb & Rich | 1891
- 355 WEA | Lamb & Rich | 1891
- 357 WEA | Lamb & Rich | 1891
- 340 WEA | Edward L. Angell | 1890
- 342 WEA | Edward L. Angell | 1890
- 344 WEA | Edward L. Angell | 1890
- 346 WEA | Edward L. Angell | 1890
- 348 WEA | Edward L. Angell | 1890
- 350 WEA | Clarence True | 1892
- 352 WEA | Clarence True | 1892
- 354 WEA | Clarence True | 1892
- 356 WEA | Clarence True | 1892
- 358 WEA | Clarence True | 1892
- W 77th – W 78th Streets
- 365 WEA | Sugarman, Hess & Berger | 1924
- 375 WEA | Schwartz & Gross | 1911
- 360 WEA – West End Collegiate Church | Robert W. Gibson | 1892
- 378 WEA | Schwartz & Gross | 1915
- W 78th – W 79th Streets
- 380-390 WEA – Apthorp Apartments | Clinton & Russell | 1908
- W 79th – W 80th Streets
- 411 WEA | George F. Pelham, Jr. | 1936
- 400 WEA – Wexford | Margon & Holder | 1931
- W 80th – W 81st Streets
- 425 WEA | Townsend & Harde | 1900
- 431 WEA – Calhoun School | Costas Machlouzarides | 1975
- 420 WEA | Schwartz & Gross | 1916
- W 81st – W 82nd Streets
- 441-451 WEA | George F. Pelham | 1926
- 440 WEA | Schwartz & Gross | 1928
- 450 WEA | Boak & Paris | 1931
- W 82nd – W 83rd Streets
- 460 WEA – Mickey Mantle School (Public School 9) | C.B.J. Snyder | 1896
- W 83rd – W 84th Streets
- 483 WEA | Schwartz & Gross | 1915
- 495 WEA – Hohenzollern | George F. Pelham | 1907
- 490 WEA | Neville & Bagge | 1913
- W 84th – W 85th Streets
- W 85th – W 86th Streets
- W 86th – W 87th Streets
- 263 W 86th Street – Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew | R.H. Robertson | 1897
West End Avenue Recommended Reading
- Wikipedia entry
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designation report West End-Collegiate Historic District (1984)
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designation report Riverside-West End Historic District (1989)
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designation report Riverside-West End Historic District Map (1989)
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designation report Riverside-West End Historic District Extension I (2012)
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designation report West End-Collegiate Historic District Extension (2013)
- The New York Times West End Avenue: Prospects of a Singular Thoroughfare (September 10, 2013)
- The New York Times If You’re Thinking of Living On/West End Avenue; Quiet, Convenient, Diverse and Involved (February 23, 2003)
- The New York Times Streetscapes | West End Avenue | Homage to the Humdrum (November 21, 2008)
- The New York Times STREETSCAPES/West End Avenue and 78th Street; A Blazing Red That Reproached A Sea of Brown (July 4, 2004)
- The New York Times Streetscapes/83rd Street and West End Avenue; For McKim, Mead & White, Even Minor Was Major (November 9, 2003)
- The New York Times Streetscapes | West End Avenue | A Preservation Handbook in a Few Short Blocks (June 24, 2007)
- West End Preservation Society web site