ART DECO APARTMENT BUILDINGS
680 West 204th Street, 1935
686 West 204th Street, 1931
687 West 204th Street, 1935
George G. Miller
Inwood is not only the largest enclave of Art Deco apartment houses in Manhattan; it is also one of the largest Art Deco architecture concentrations in the United States. Uniformly five or six stories in height, these buildings comprise many of the streetwalls of the neighborhood and possess elements such as corner steel-casement windows, rounded-masonry corners, curved metal fire escapes, geometric parapets and simple but decorative brickwork, with lobbies that incorporate marble or other stone, handpainted murals, custom lighting and terrazzo floors.