Location: 2501 Palisade Avenue Block: 5745 Lot: 290, Tax Addresses 2501 Palisade Avenue, 2501A Palisade Avenue, 2501B Palisade Avenue, 2501C Palisade Avenue, 2505 Palisade Avenue, 2505A Palisade Avenue, 2505B Palisade Avenue, and 2505C Palisade Avenue. Bins # 2093896, 2093897, 2093898, 2093899, 2093900, 2093901, 2093902 and 2093903.
Status: Never landmarked or heard.
Description from the Bronx Survey: The Villa Charlotte Bronte at 2501 Palisades Avenue, Riverdale, is a garden-type apartment house. Built in 1925-6 by the Northern Realty Company, the complex was designed by Robert Gardner. Sixteen single family apartments are arranged within two groups, each containing four connected sections. The buildings are stuccoed and the roofs are tiled. Set below street level, there are flying staircases leading to balconies that join various entrances.
Stairs also lead to entrances at grade level. The complex is a picturesque series of structural forms with balconies, dormers, a variety of windows, doors and chimneys. Beautifully sited overlooking the Hudson River, the Villa Charlotte Bronte represents a handsome solution to the problem of fitting an apartment house into a cliffside site. Robert Gardner (1866-1937) designed a number of garden apartment houses at the beginning of his career.
Later he worked mainly on the design of public buildings, including the Staten Island Institute of Architecture. He was an archeologist and author of The Parthenon, Its Science and Form, a book which theorized Greek mastery of proportion solely by means of the square and the compass.
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