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10 Grace Avenue: Great Neck Architect: Landmark Series

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Architect: Manoug Exerjian

10 Grace Avenue, Great Neck

A two-story, full-block, brick commercial building that takes advantage of its siting to wrap around the corner of Bond Street and Grace Avenue. (The brick exterior, now a pale pink, was originally intended to be painted white.) Its smooth wall surfaces and rounded corner emphasize the building’s streamlined quality. The projecting canopy at the cornice line and the long stretch of double-hung aluminum windows extending around the building at the upper story highlight the building’s horizontality. The storefronts at ground level retain their original sleekly curving plate-glass windows and aluminum bases, although some bases have been replaced with (or always were) stainless steel. Three porthole windows (3’6” in diameter) run along the first story of the Grace Avenue elevation. The building was originally designed with a setback second story and terrace, but the second story wall was brought out to the street wall of the first story instead. As built, the second-story only covered half the first story, extending to the middle of the Grace Avenue elevation. The first floor was divided into 10 stores and the second floor had five offices. The first-story roof of the Grace Avenue elevation had horizontal iron railings at the roofline and a flagpole at its southeastern corner. As seen from Grace Avenue, the porthole windows, iron roof railings, flagpole, and white walls of the original building would have evoked the Streamline Moderne’s homage to the ocean liner. In 1962, to add office space, the second story was extended to cover the entire building. The decorative iron railing and flagpole were removed, and a continuous band of double-hung aluminum windows was added. While the alteration plans (also by Exerjian) called for a porcelain enamel fascia board to run along the top of the windows, the existing fascia is wood. At this time, Exerjian created an interior open roof garden with a fountain at the center of the building. Many changes have been made to the retail interiors over the years. In addition, the restaurant at the southeastern corner of the building on Grace Avenue underwent an extensive refacing in 1984 that is not sympathetic to the building. The staircase to the second floor (at the Grace Avenue entrance) is the original marble with iron railings.

The building continues its original use of retail and office space. The Petite Shop, a children’s clothing store at the corner of Grace Avenue and Bond Street, has been in the building almost since it opened, and still uses its original signage.

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9 Bond Street: Great Neck Architect: Landmark Series

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Architect: Jacob W. Sherman

9 Bond Street, Great Neck

Although conceived by a different architect, the original design mimicked that of 10 Grace Avenue, built three years earlier (see survey form for 10 Grace Avenue). In keeping with the Streamline Moderne, the building has a low, horizontal aspect, and is unified by the projecting band that runs along its entire length. The exterior walls were originally brick laid with headers at every third course. The parapet is coped with stone. The Bond Street corner of the building is rounded with two-inch pipe rails at the roofline. There are three porthole windows at the Grace Avenue elevation. The design included eight commercial spaces (currently there are seven). The basement provided storage for each store. Storefronts had aluminum and white plaster facing on fascias and bases. These are not extant.The pipe railings and porthole windows evoke the nautical feeling of the Streamline Moderne. The original storefronts, with their enframements of aluminum and white plaster, would have underscored the sleekness of the original building.

This building replaced an earlier building on the site, a one story office designed by Arthur C. Jackson for Grace Properties in 1940.

Frederick’s Luncheonette has been located in this building since shortly after it was built. A 1976 fire in Frederick’s resulted in extensive repairs and renovations.

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7 Bond Street: Great Neck Architect: Landmark Series

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Architect: F. Albert Hunt & Edwin Kline

7 Bond Street, Great Neck

This three-story, 11-bay, red brick building has small front and rear courts. The building is designed in an “H”-plan and includes commercial space at the street level. The roofline is varied for interest. (The original cast-stone copings at the roofline have been replaced with aluminum.) The design of the façade is symmetrical. The recessed central entrance bay on the principal façade is located at the connector of the “H,” and is fronted by a small landscaped court. A small plaque with relief ornament is located just under the roofline on this bay. The entrance is enframed with an elaborate NeoJacobean door surround. A small cartouche over the door reads “Plaza Apts.” Projecting wings, decorated with Art Deco stone finials at the top corners, flank this central bay. Storefronts are located in the projecting wings. The original specifications called for wrought-iron balconies on third-floor windows of the principal facade and wrought iron security bars on the lower-level windows (some are extant).

In 1982 the building underwent extensive renovations designed by architect Walter Blum of Great Neck. These included repair of the original lobby paneling, renovations to kitchens and bathrooms, a new asphalt shingle roof, new double-hung aluminum windows, removal of dumbwaiters, removal of Colonial Revival door surrounds at the storefronts and Art Deco stone finials, cleaning of stonework, and repointing of brick. The biggest change was the installation of an elevator, which necessitated cutting through the center of the building to form an elevator shaft, which reduced the available floor space of several apartments. In 1983, Blum designed a new landscaping plan for the Bond Street elevation. These included new brick sidewalks and walkway in keeping with VGNP requirements (which replaced the original walkway of bluestone flags) and plantings of flowering dogwood, cedar, rhododendron, red azalea, little leaf holly, and pachysandra.

The original building permit was granted in March of 1931. In June of that year an additional permit was granted for the inclusion of a penthouse. Construction was estimated to cost $96,500.

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6 Bond Street: Great Neck Architect: Landmark Series

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Architect: Roslyn Lindheim of Forest Hills

6 Bond Street, Great Neck

This modest store once boasted such decorative features as a brickwork façade and cornice moldings on its storefront windows. Beginning in the 1960s there have been renovations to the building that replaced these architectural features. Today it is a modern stucco structure with 4 stores including a Haagen Dazs ice-cream store.
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5 Bond Street: Great Neck Architect: Landmark Series

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Architect: Manoug Exerjia

5 Bond Street, Great Neck

This elegantly streamlined three-bay, three-story, brick building was designed with three retail spaces at the first floor, six offices and restrooms arranged around a center hall at the second, and a live/work apartment, most likely for the architect’s own use, at the top floor. Three horizontal zones in the smooth red-brick façade delineate each story. The storefronts have their original curved plate-glass windows. Store windows are framed with aluminum and stainless steel bases and aluminum fascias. The stucco panels over each storefront held the original shop signage (this treatment was also used by Exerjian at the Townhouse shops). These are now obscured by canopies. The second-story windows, in four groups of three, are separated by plain stucco panels. The rounded northwest corner heightens the sense that the windows run in a continuous band around the corner. The third floor penthouse is set back off a terrace that runs the full width of the building. Deeply projecting eaves create the sense of an awning over the terrace. A decorative brick pattern is used to call attention to the rounded corner The horizontal emphasis; use of smooth, flat wall surfaces and materials (e.g., stucco and aluminum); projecting thin-slab roof; rounded corner; and flush, banded windows are hallmarks of the Streamline Moderne. In addition, the building has vague nautical references in its setback penthouse terrace, which evokes the deck of an ocean liner, and in the spiral staircase connecting the second and third floors.


Manoug Exerjian also designed the Gilchrist Apartments at the southwest corner of Schenck Avenue and Gilchrist Road (1946), 10 Grace Avenue (1947), the Townhouse apartments on Cutter Mill Road (1948-49), and the Eden Terrace Apartments at 71 Grace Avenue (1956). At some point, probably in the late 1950s, the penthouse was converted to office space. Fire damage occurred in retail spaces in 1958, 1964, and 1984.

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New York Telephone Company Central Office: Great Neck Architect: Landmark Series

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Architect: Unknown

Great Neck

Erected in 1929 The Telephone building is five bays wide, ten bays long, and two stories tall. Its plan is rectangular with a small open courtyard at the back of the building. Despite its low massing, a strong vertical emphasis created by its Art Deco features, including the pilaster-like projections that dominate the Barstow and Welwyn façades. Orange iron-spot brickwork is laid in geometric and stylized patterns typical of the Art Deco style, including chevron and zigzags. A transom with zigzag panes is over the front door (the door is not original). The original four-over-four steel double-hung windows are extant. The hipped copper roof is set back behind a parapet topped with stone copings. The gabled Art Deco dormers are situated over the receding surfaces of the central bays and underscore the style’s verticality. Low granite stairs lead to the main entrance.

Construction was completed in November 1929. The new building was designed to service Great Neck, Port Washington, Manhasset, and the Imperial central office districts. Lines and desks were installed about December 15, 1929. The business office opened to the public on April 28, 1930. Service was scheduled to begin May 19, 1930. The building included “a manual switchboard of the latest type with positions for thirty operators.” It also included office space for local staff and a public business office. The design was intended to allow for additions of up to six stories, and space at the back of the lot was meant for the erection of an annex when the growth of the community required an increase in service. Effort was made to ensure that the design conformed to the “high class residential character of Great Neck” and to preserve the trees on the site. The architectural firm of Vorhees, Gemelin and Walker designed many buildings for the New York Telephone Company during the late 1920s, and further research should be undertaken to determine if they designed this building as well.

Source: http://www.greatneckplaza.net/historic/vsurvey.php?p=telephone