{"nrhp_refnum":"82003346","name":"Park Plaza Apartments","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1005 Jerome Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"The Bronx","state":"NY","lat":40.83055006300003,"lon":-73.92462455399993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-06-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An eight-story Art Deco apartment house at 1005 Jerome Avenue in the West Bronx, New York City, across from John Mullaly Park. It was designed by the office of Horace Ginsberg, built 1928-31, and rebuilt after a 1929 fire.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Park Plaza is one of the first Art Deco apartment houses in the Bronx and a pioneering work that introduced the style to the borough. Designer Marvin Fine adapted elements of Manhattan skyscraper Art Deco, drawing on Raymond Hood and William Van Alen, to low-rise apartment living. Its success led to dozens of further Art Deco apartment commissions for the firm.","narrative":"Park Plaza is an eight-story apartment house on Jerome Avenue in the West Bronx, facing John Mullaly Park. Built between 1928 and 1931 for speculative builders Simon and Louis Bregman, it was designed by the office of Horace Ginsberg, with elevations by Marvin Fine. It is made up of five brick blocks with polychrome terra-cotta banding showing flamingos, fountains, and a sunrise behind a Bronx apartment house. Construction was nearly finished when a fire in June 1929 destroyed the building. It was rebuilt at a reduced height of eight stories instead of ten, with the planned roofline ornament removed. Its significance lies in its role as one of the earliest Art Deco apartment houses in the Bronx. Fine blended ideas from Manhattan skyscraper architects Raymond Hood and William Van Alen and applied them to a low-rise residential type. The design still shows some historicist traces, but it started a wave of Art Deco apartment buildings across the borough.","period_of_significance":"1928-31","architect_builder":"Horace Ginsberg, Marvin Fine","architectural_style":"Art Deco","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in good condition and altered; it has slightly under 200 apartments and keeps its modernistic lobby details.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.995643-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82003346.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003346/5499ff1f59-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003346/5499ff1f59-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Park_Plaza_Apts_1001_Jerome_Av_jeh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Park_Plaza_Apts_1001_Jerome_Av_jeh.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"87001388","name":"Grand Concourse Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/grand-concourse-historic-district-87001388/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316499","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Plaza_Apartments_(Bronx)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7137939"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/the-bronx/park-plaza-apartments-82003346/"}