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The Eldorado at 300 Central Park West, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is the northern most of 4 twin-towered luxury real estate cooperatives that manage the west side of Central Park. The art deco design home or condominium building fills the full blockfront extending between West 90th and West 91st Streets and neglects the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Tank in Central Park. The Eldorado is located within the Upper West Side-Central Park West Historic District designated by the New york city city city City Landmarks Preservation Commission, and is a contributing commercial equipment to the federally designated Central Park West Historic District. The name is an inheritance from the previous El Dorado, a luxury elevator eight-story apartment or condo or apartment or condo block of 1902 that previously occupied the complete block-front site. The stock exchange crash that followed the start of constructing eventually overwhelmed its funding and by 1931 the structure remained in foreclosure and the home professional, Louis Klosk, a Bronx-based designer, lost it. It opened, reorganized under the Central Park Plaza Corporation. Early renters consisted of New York Senator Royal Copeland and the popular rabbi of Reform Judaism Dr. Stephen S. Wise and Barney Pressman, developer of Barneys New york city, the retail clothes store. More recent house owners have in fact been Alec Baldwin, Faye Dunaway, Moby, Fort Keillor, Tuesday Weld and Michael J. Fox. Author Sinclair Lewis selected a tower home in this structure considering that it had views which incorporated all the bridges of the city at that time. The structure was similarly the imaginary address of Marjorie Morningstar, the heroine of Herman Wouk's 1955 novel. The structure has 30 floors. The greatest floors continue to be in the 2 various towers-- a design it shares with other Central Park West co-ops like The San Remo, The Century, and The Majestic. It was built in 1929-- 1931 to the design of Margon & Holder, for the speculative home contractor Klosk. The repainted metal finials of the towers are a design of Emery Roth, in association with Margon & Holder. "The futuristic sculptural detailing of the El Dorado, together with its geometric accessory and patterns and its contrasting items and structures, make it one of the finest Art Deco structures in the city. The towers are ended by ornamented obstacles with abstract geometric spires that have been compared with Flash Gordon finials," observes Steven Ruttenbaum. Info are cast in replica stone, and there are bronze panels of low relief. The symmetrical massing of the building, with its terraced problems can be compared to the noticeably similar massing of Roth's classically extensive The Beresford, completed in 1929, months prior to design of The El Dorado started. It opened, restructured under the Central Park Plaza Corporation. Author Sinclair Lewis chosen a tower apartment or house in this developing since it had views which included all the bridges of the city at that time. The biggest floors are in the 2 separate towers-- a design it shares with other Central Park West co-ops like The San Remo, The Century, and The Majestic. 300 Central Park West
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