Audubon Park Historic District
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Riviera (790 Riverside Drive, main entrance)
Designed by Rouse and Goldstone, the Riviera cost $1,700,000 when it
was completed in 1911, significantly more than any other building in Audubon Park. Balconies at the fourth and ninth floors and a cornice at the fourth and eleventh floors momentarily interrupt a brick façade with corner stone section that rises above the three-story limestone base to the eleventh floor. Magnificent Venetian windows embellish the top floor. A tiled courtyard on Riverside Drive leads to a second entry and a third, less-elaborate entry is on 156th Street.
One of the most imposing buildings constructed on the river front, the Riviera, has just been completed, occupying the entire block on the Drive overlooking the Hudson between 156th and 157th Streets...The apartments of 9 and 10 rooms have three baths, while smaller suites are supplied with two baths, and the latest improvements
New York Times
March 26, 1911
With permission:
Milstein Division of United States History, Local History & Geneology,
The New York Public Library,
Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
