One East 66th Street

One East 66^th Street is the first building on upper Fifth Avenue to dispense with the fiction of an actual avenue address.  A bit of an oddity, the not-quite-Art Deco structure was the last design of the great Rosario Candelo, who completed it in 1930 – yet the building itself was not begun until 1947, due to the Great Depression.  The highly articulated bays and stepped massing are unexpectedly dramatic and bear comparison with 20 Fifth Avenue, a similarly sculptural work.

Tags: Apartment Houses, Art Moderne, Rosario Candela, The Upper East Side