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Real estate record and builders' guide: v. 82, no. 2103: July 4, 1908

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u RECORD AND GUIDE July 4, 190S (C) AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF RECENT WORK; WELL DESIGNED. Madison Avenue, southeast corner 04th Street. Buckley Realty & Construction Co., Builder. Wm. E. Mowbray, Architect. and see what the result is. The twenty-five foot tenement with its murky hallways, nai^row staircases, is practically ex- tinc^t. actually extinct so far as new buildings are concerned. Buildings have been increased in size and on the whole they are better constructed, better planned, better lighted. More¬ over, this increase in size, this substitution of fifty foot lots or larger for the old invariable' twenty-five foot lot. has pro¬ duced a very much higher grade of architectural effect and has permitted the "outer court." THE PATERNO APARTMENTS. IKith Street, near Riverside Drive. Paterno Bros., Builders, Schwartz & Gross. Architects. This "outer court" is a very sane and logical modification of plan, A great many minds have become interested in the problem and they are working it out every year to better re- suits. This is particularly true of the plans of all buildings above the lowest grade. In the first attempt at expressing the new idea the "outer court" was treated as a mere indentatiori in the building. There was merely a rough inner coUrt al¬ lowed to remain open on one side to the street, and in the centre of this indentation the entrance was placed. It was simply a matter of plan and received no architectural treat- (PLATB D.) THE NEW ADDITION TO THE HENDRIK HUDSON. THE CLARENDON APARTMENT HOUSE. A good example of modern architectural design. . Riverside Drive, Southeast Corner S6th Street, ■Broadway and llOth Street. William L. Rouse, Architect. Ronald H.' Macdonald & Co,, Builders. Charles B. Birge, Architect. ■V