Eldorado Building,New York. The Eldorado at 300 Central Park West, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is the northernmost of four twin-towered luxury housing cooperatives[2] that face the west side of Central Park. The art deco style apartment building fills the complete blockfront extending between West 90th and West 91st Streets and overlooks the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir in Central Park. The Eldorado is located within the Upper West Side-Central Park West Historic District designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission,[4] and is a contributing property to the federally designated Central Park West Historic District. The Eldorado was the fourth and the last huge apartment building Emery Roth designed for the fast-changing Central Park West after the Beresford, the Ardsley and the San Remo. As experimented in the San Remo and at the same period by Irwin Chanin with his Art-Déco Century and Majestic Apts, the plan was put up according a U-shape form, bounding an open court, the fronting side supporting twin towers. But in this work (as in the Ardsley), Roth broke from his eclectic Beaux-Arts style to a more modern geometrical abstraction. The towers are beautifully sculptured in recessed decorative vertical piers as developed in the Barclay-Vesey Bldg, but enhanced here with two additional belfries, red-lighted at night. Initially, the scheduled design was more close to the 519 Eighth Avenue Bldg.
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