San Remo Apartments (originally San Remo Hotel)
IN THE San Remo Apartments, Emery Roth successfully combined nostalgia for Old World elegance with the modernist aesthetic of skyscraper living. The San Remo’s Italian Renaissance styling, though pared down to a picturesque minimum, is sufficient to conve
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CENTRAL PARK WEST
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EMERY ROTH ,
1930
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subtly picturesque, as if daubed in watercolor: a few courses of red roof tile, beige brick, whitish limestone, tan terra cotta, and green metal railings under the green copper lanterns. When the San Remo opened in 1930, it was advertised as the “Aristocrat of Central Park West”; however, a year later it was still one-third
[ 1 ] The San Remo’s romantic towers were inspired by the drum of the Choregic Monument of Lysicrates.
vacant because of the stock market crash. The duplex tower apartments shared no party walls with other apartments and offered terraced views in nearly all directions. Some living rooms are 22 by 36 feet, under 11-foot ceilings. Semiprivate elevators carried tenants to within a few feet of each apartment. Roth’s biographer Steven Ruttenbaum rightly calls these residences “mansions in the clouds.” The San Remo is the last of the great premodern luxury residences. Even Roth’s El Dorado, completed the next year, sported finials that resemble miniature setback skyscrapers.
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