The El Dorado
Manhattan, United States
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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The El Dorado stands at 300 Central Park West on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a landmark Art Deco cooperative apartment building constructed between 1929 and 1931. Designed by the architect of record Margon & Holder with consulting architect Emery Roth, the structure features twin twelve-story towers rising from a seventeen-story base, creating a distinctive silhouette along Central Park. The facade combines cast stone on its lower stories with tan and brown brick arranged to emphasize vertical lines, while the main entrance showcases three angular bronze archways. Angular stone balconies ornament upper-story apartments, and sculpted finials crown the towers. When it opened, the building contained two hundred apartments with fifteen hundred rooms. The marble-lined lobby and basement levels—later equipped with a gym in the 1990s—complete its Art Deco appointments. Originally developed by Louis Klosk, the building was foreclosed following the 1929 Wall Street Crash and eventually became a housing cooperative in 1982. It is both a New York City designated landmark and a contributing property to the Central Park West Historic District.
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- Type
- skyscraper
- Heritage
- New York City Landmark, National Register of Historic Places contributing property
- Place
- Manhattan, United States
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