New York Buildings Designed by H. I. Feldman -- page 5
Wadsworth Manor, an Art Deco apartment building in Washington Heights

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Along with Wadsworth Towers, Wadsworth Manor (45 -- 49 Wadsworth Terrace) is mentioned as an H. I. Feldman building in "Art Deco Architecture: Design, Decoration, and Detail from the Twenties and Thirties". The building was completed in 1929. "Living It Up: A Guide to the Named Apartment Houses of New York" (Atheneum, New York, 1984) says of this building:

Wadsworth Manor (45 -- 49 Wadsworth Avenue [sic]): A Bland six-story 1920s building
This characterization is unfair, and quite visibly untrue, since the building is decorated with beautiful terra cotta tiling along the first floor line, particularly above the front door.

Wadsworth Manor. Wadsworth Manor.
View of Wadsworth Manor from the street. The building entrance is crowned by colorful terra cotta tilework.

Wadsworth Manor.
The windows are surrounded by decorative vertical bands of brickwork. Towards the roof, the windows are capped by more terra cotta. The roofline itself is decorated with crenelattions. There is clearly nothing bland about this building!

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