George F. Pelham

George Frederick Pelham (1867 – February 7, 1937) was a Canadian-American architect and the son of George Brown Pelham, who was also an architect.

Life and career Pelham was born in Ottawa, Ontario, coming to New York City when his father opened an architectural office there in 1875. The elder Pelham designed for the city's Department of Public Parks, and employed his son as a draftsman in his firm.

The first building architected by George F. Pelham was NB 880-1889, at 200 West 99th Street, a 5-story brick and stone flat, 25×89, tin roof, built for Martin J. Barron.

After being privately tutored in architecture, the younger Pelham opened his own office in 1890, specializing in apartment houses and hotels, row houses, and commercial buildings and utilizing the Renaissance Revival, Gothic Revival, Beaux-Arts, and Colonial Revival styles. His work is particularly represented on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He designed buildings for 43 years. Over his career, George F. Pelham designed at least 1245 buildings in New York City per the Office for Metropolitan History, founded by Christopher Gray (architectural historian).

George F. Pelham at one time provided typical drawings for tenements (24 apartments on 6 floors, on a lot 25-feet wide) for $25 a set.

In 1905, he designed the Riverdale apartment building at 67 Riverside Drive for developer John Louis Miller. It opened on October 31, 1907. In 1905 he also designed a new synagogue building for Brooklyn's Beth Jacob Anshe Sholom, based on Arnold Brunner's West Side Synagogue building on Manhattan's West 88th Street. The synagogue is no longer extant.

Pelham was the architect of the Chalfonte Hotel at 200 West 70th Street in Manhattan. Built in 1927, it was later converted to rental apartments and is still standing today.

There are three buildings designed by George F. Pelham in the Sutton Place neighborhood, all located on East 58th Street: 444 East 58th Street, 422 East 58th Street, and Stonehenge 58 (400 East 58th Street).

For many years, his office was at 200 West 72nd Street, originally built as a clubhouse for the Colonial Club of New-York. Pelham, like Rosario Candela, chose that address because a number of developers had their offices there, including Paterno & Son and Anthony Campagna.

The last building architected by George F. Pelham was NB 66-1931, at 1082-1084 Amsterdam Avenue, a 19-story and penthouse apartment, 50×90, built for St. Johns House, Inc., Herman A. Axelrod, president. 331 W 84th Street 5 1894 18 North Moore Street 5 1894 93 Crosby Street 6 1894-95 347 West Broadway 7 1895-96 495 Broome Street 7 1895-96 397 Washington Street 6 1895-96 303-309 West 103rd Street (row houses) 3 1895-96 42 Hudson Street 6 1896 16-22 West 68th Street (row houses) 5 1896 97 Wooster Street 7 1896-97 34-42 West 96th Street (row houses) 4 1897 616 West 113th Street (row house) 4 + basement 1897 32-36 West 85th Street (row houses) 5 1897 526 West 114th Street 5 1897 422-424 East 58th Street 6 1900 Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun (117 East 85th Street) 5 1902 441-461 East 140th Street, The Bronx (tenements) 5 1902-03 226-228 East 53rd Street (NB 175-1903, 6-story brick tenement, 40×87.5, Original owner: Abraham Silverson, Germania Bank Building) 6 1903 77 Second Avenue 6 1903 Dream Hotel (210 West 55th Street) 13 1904 224-226 Avenue B 6 1904 504-508 East 12th Street 6 1904 315 East 84th Street 6 1905 243-253 East 78th Street 6 1905 Woodward Hall (50 East 96th Street) 6 1905 The Fairholm (503 W. 121st Street) 6 1905 Congregation Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom (274–276 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn) Unknown 1905 [Eleanor Thomas] Elliott Hall (49 Claremont Avenue) 6 1906 Kennedy House (47 Claremont Avenue) 6 1906 Concord Hall (468 Riverside Drive) 12 1906-07 The Riverdale (67 Riverside Drive) 9 1907 17 West 17th Street 11 1907 The Lansdown (352-354 West 46th Street, now the Lyric) 6 1908 The Cliffden (265 Riverside Drive) 11 1909 15 East 32nd Street 12 1909 Fowler Court (400 Riverside Drive) 12 1909 Raymore Court (238 West 106th Street) 6 1910 Hadson Hotel (31 West 34th Street) 12 1910 133 West 21st Street 12 1911 37 West 28th Street 12 1911 72 Madison Avenue 12 1911 137-139 Grand Street 7 1911 The Woodhull (62 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn) 8 1911 Soundview Court (260 Convent Avenue) 10 1911-12 36 West 25th Street 16 1912 44 West 28th Street 16 1912 675 West End Avenue 16 1912 Francis Edmund Court (423 West 120th Street) 10 1912 385 Edgecombe Avenue 6 1913 123 Second Avenune 5 (formerly 3) 1913 533-539 West 150th Street (row houses) 5 1915 Bellguard Apartments (216 West 89th Street) 12 1915 Buchova Apartments 12 1915 270 West End Avenue 13 1918 710 West End Avenue 15 1920 Oxford Apartments (205 West 88th Street) 15 1922 29 East 64th Street 12 1922 Marboro Apartments (171 West 79th Street) 16 1923 135 East 74th Street 12 1923 130 East 94th Street 9 1923 Hotel Plaza Athénée (37 East 64th Street) 16 1924 The Florence (545 West End Avenue) 16 1924 314 West 77th Street 9 1924 140 West 86th Street 15 1924 161 West 54th Street 15 1924 290 Riverside Drive 15 1924 Bradford Hotel (210 West 70th Street) 15 1924 Butler Hall (400 West 119th Street) 15 1924 The Gatsby (65 East 96th Street) 15 1924 300 Riverside Drive 14 1924 136 East 36th Street 12 1924 Hudson View Gardens (116 Pinehurst Avenue) 6 1924-25 The Olcott (27 West 72nd Street) 16 1925 10 West 86th Street 15 1925 1136 5th Avenue 15 1925 910 West End Avenue 15 1925 Surrey Apartments (215 West 83rd Street) 15 1925 1160 Park Avenue 14 1925 964 Madison Avenue 5 1925 263 West 38th Street 17 1926 1225 Park Avenue 16 1926 20 West 77th Street 16 1926 Park Royal Hotel (23 West 73rd Street) 16 1926 164 West 79th Street 15 1926 Hotel Milburn (242 West 76th Street) 15 1926 585 West End Avenue 17 1927 115 East 86th Street 16 1927 310 West 106th Street 16 1927 The Broadmoor (235 West 102nd Street) 16 1927 The Marbro (171 West 79th Street) 16 1927 16 1928 1120 Park Avenue 19 1930 47 East 88th Street 16 1930 Atlantic Bank of New York (960 Sixth Avenue) 16 1930 81 Irving Place 14 1930 St. James House (501 West 113th Street) 20 1931 121 East 31st Street 12 1931

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