Neville & Bagge was a major residential architecture and construction firm in
New York City between 1892 and 1917. Its first office was in
Harlem at 217 West
125th Street.[1]
The partners of Neville & Bagge were Thomas Neville Sr., a builder from Ireland, and George Arthur Bagge, an architect from Manchester, England. Mr. Neville's son, Thomas P. Neville, also joined the firm as an architect. Little more is known about them; the firm's records and drawings are lost.[2] But Neville & Bagge buildings in
Manhattan number in the hundreds.[1]
Along with its competitors
Schwartz & Gross and
George Pelham, Neville & Bagge was one of the most prolific designers of multiple dwellings in Manhattan, especially in the uptown neighborhoods where construction was booming.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] In Morningside Heights: A History of Its Architecture and Development,
Andrew S. Dolkart writes:
Although generally unheralded, it was Schwartz & Gross, George Pelham, Neville & Bagge, and other speculative architects who, by the sheer volume of their work, created the architectural character and texture of many of New York's neighborhoods . . .[3]
Neville & Bagge applied for at least 531 new building permits between 1892 and 1917[1] and designed and built many residential landmarks such as:
The Garrison Apartments, 435 Convent Ave., New York, NY 10031. Designed and built by Neville & Bagge, 1909-1910.
The Cornwall, a 12-story Beaux-Arts building at 255 West
90th Street, noted for its elaborate balcony and window detail and ornate
Art Nouveau cornice.[16]
The 12-story Renaissance Revival building at 325 West End Avenue in the West End–Collegiate Historic District. [1][17][7]
The 6-story
limestone, brick, and terra-cotta
Neoclassical Revival building at 889
St Nicholas Avenue in the Hamilton Heights–Sugar Hill Northwest Historic District. The building housed Fat Man on Sugar Hill, a popular
barbecue restaurant from 1935-1965.[18][19][7]
8 Hamilton Heights apartment buildings on Broadway between West 140th and West 150th Streets: Ellerslie Courts at 3441-3459 Broadway; 3481-3483 Broadway; The Sarsfield at 3489-3495 Broadway; The Saguenay at 3488-3496 Broadway; The Castleton at 3480-3486 Broadway; Washington Court at 3504-3518 Broadway; The Mecklenberg at 3551-3559 Broadway; and The Rudsona at 3542 Broadway.[13]
El Nido Apartments at 121 St. Nicholas Avenue in Central Harlem, an ornate 7-story building with elaborate lintels over doors and windows and a heavy cornice.[8]
The 12 Beaux Arts townhouses at 452 to 474 West 141st Street in the
Hamilton Heights Historic District, which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. These townhouses are noted for their design patterns and the decorative variety of their facades.[24][25][7]
St. Cecilia's Convent, also known as the Regina Angelorum, at 112-118 East 106th Street in East Harlem, completed in 1907, designated a New York City Landmark in 1976, and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Neville & Bagge's design united two existing buildings behind a new façade to house both a convent for the
Sisters of Mercy and a home for working girls.[30][31][32] Neville & Bagge's combined building is adjacent to St. Cecilia Roman Catholic Church, which was designed and built earlier by
Napoleon Le Brun & Sons, from 1883 to 1887.[7]
^
abcdDolkart, Andrew (1998). Morningside Heights: a history of its architecture & development. The Columbia history of urban life. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 279, 295, 297, 299–300, 307, 313.
ISBN978-0-231-07850-4.
^White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot; Leadon, Fran; American Institute of Architects, eds. (2010).
AIA guide to New York City (5th ed.). Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 382, 387, 515, 549, 553, 652, 827, 833, 853.
ISBN978-0-19-538385-0.
OCLC464581439.
^Leadon, Fran (2018). Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. p. 257.
ISBN9780393357929.
^
abcdefghiDiamondstein-Spielvogel, Barbaralee (2016). The Landmarks of New York: An Illustrated, Comprehensive Record of New York City's Historic Buildings, Historic Districts, Interior Landmarks, Sidewalk Clocks, Streetlights, and Cultural Medallions (Sixth ed.). New York: Washington Mews Books. pp. 311–312, 404, 780, 791, 794, 797, 803, 809–811.
ISBN9781479883011.
^
abcGoldberger, Paul (1979). The city observed, New York: a guide to the architecture of Manhattan (1st ed.). New York: Vintage. pp. 290–291, 314–315.
ISBN978-0-394-72916-9.
^Dolkart, Andrew (January 1, 1997). Touring Historic Harlem: Four Walks in Northern Manhattan. New York: New York Landmarks Conservancy. pp. 7–16, 108.
ISBN9780964706118.{{
cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (
link)
^Dunlap, David W. (1990). On Broadway: a journey uptown over time. New York: Rizzoli. pp. 285-289.
ISBN978-0-8478-1181-6.
^Francis, Dennis Steadman (1979). Architects in practice, New York City, 1840-1900. New York: Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records, Inc. pp. 13, 57.{{
cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (
link)
^Stern, Robert A. M.; Gilmartin, Gregory; Massengale, John Montague (1983). New York 1900: metropolitan architecture and urbanism, 1890-1915. New York: Rizzoli. pp. 303-304.
ISBN978-0-8478-0511-2.
^National Archives Catalog. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Sugar Hill Historic District, February 25, 2002; p 33.
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319973.
^National Archives Catalog. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Sugar Hill Historic District, February 25, 2002; p 30.
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319973.
^Dolkart, Andrew S. (1998). Morningside Heights: a history of its architecture & development. The Columbia history of urban life. New York, NY: Columbia Univ. Press. pp. 291, 307.
ISBN978-0-231-07850-4.
^National Archives Catalog. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Sugar Hill Historic District, February 25, 2002; pp 44, 75.
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319973.
^National Archives Catalog. National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form, Saint Cecilia's Church and Convent, January 5, 1984; p 7.
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319927
^National Archives Catalog. National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form, Saint Cecilia's Church and Convent, January 5, 1984; pp 2, 6.
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319927
Neville & Bagge was a major residential architecture and construction firm in
New York City between 1892 and 1917. Its first office was in
Harlem at 217 West
125th Street.[1]
The partners of Neville & Bagge were Thomas Neville Sr., a builder from Ireland, and George Arthur Bagge, an architect from Manchester, England. Mr. Neville's son, Thomas P. Neville, also joined the firm as an architect. Little more is known about them; the firm's records and drawings are lost.[2] But Neville & Bagge buildings in
Manhattan number in the hundreds.[1]
Along with its competitors
Schwartz & Gross and
George Pelham, Neville & Bagge was one of the most prolific designers of multiple dwellings in Manhattan, especially in the uptown neighborhoods where construction was booming.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] In Morningside Heights: A History of Its Architecture and Development,
Andrew S. Dolkart writes:
Although generally unheralded, it was Schwartz & Gross, George Pelham, Neville & Bagge, and other speculative architects who, by the sheer volume of their work, created the architectural character and texture of many of New York's neighborhoods . . .[3]
Neville & Bagge applied for at least 531 new building permits between 1892 and 1917[1] and designed and built many residential landmarks such as:
The Garrison Apartments, 435 Convent Ave., New York, NY 10031. Designed and built by Neville & Bagge, 1909-1910.
The Cornwall, a 12-story Beaux-Arts building at 255 West
90th Street, noted for its elaborate balcony and window detail and ornate
Art Nouveau cornice.[16]
The 12-story Renaissance Revival building at 325 West End Avenue in the West End–Collegiate Historic District. [1][17][7]
The 6-story
limestone, brick, and terra-cotta
Neoclassical Revival building at 889
St Nicholas Avenue in the Hamilton Heights–Sugar Hill Northwest Historic District. The building housed Fat Man on Sugar Hill, a popular
barbecue restaurant from 1935-1965.[18][19][7]
8 Hamilton Heights apartment buildings on Broadway between West 140th and West 150th Streets: Ellerslie Courts at 3441-3459 Broadway; 3481-3483 Broadway; The Sarsfield at 3489-3495 Broadway; The Saguenay at 3488-3496 Broadway; The Castleton at 3480-3486 Broadway; Washington Court at 3504-3518 Broadway; The Mecklenberg at 3551-3559 Broadway; and The Rudsona at 3542 Broadway.[13]
El Nido Apartments at 121 St. Nicholas Avenue in Central Harlem, an ornate 7-story building with elaborate lintels over doors and windows and a heavy cornice.[8]
The 12 Beaux Arts townhouses at 452 to 474 West 141st Street in the
Hamilton Heights Historic District, which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. These townhouses are noted for their design patterns and the decorative variety of their facades.[24][25][7]
St. Cecilia's Convent, also known as the Regina Angelorum, at 112-118 East 106th Street in East Harlem, completed in 1907, designated a New York City Landmark in 1976, and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Neville & Bagge's design united two existing buildings behind a new façade to house both a convent for the
Sisters of Mercy and a home for working girls.[30][31][32] Neville & Bagge's combined building is adjacent to St. Cecilia Roman Catholic Church, which was designed and built earlier by
Napoleon Le Brun & Sons, from 1883 to 1887.[7]
^
abcdDolkart, Andrew (1998). Morningside Heights: a history of its architecture & development. The Columbia history of urban life. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 279, 295, 297, 299–300, 307, 313.
ISBN978-0-231-07850-4.
^White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot; Leadon, Fran; American Institute of Architects, eds. (2010).
AIA guide to New York City (5th ed.). Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 382, 387, 515, 549, 553, 652, 827, 833, 853.
ISBN978-0-19-538385-0.
OCLC464581439.
^Leadon, Fran (2018). Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. p. 257.
ISBN9780393357929.
^
abcdefghiDiamondstein-Spielvogel, Barbaralee (2016). The Landmarks of New York: An Illustrated, Comprehensive Record of New York City's Historic Buildings, Historic Districts, Interior Landmarks, Sidewalk Clocks, Streetlights, and Cultural Medallions (Sixth ed.). New York: Washington Mews Books. pp. 311–312, 404, 780, 791, 794, 797, 803, 809–811.
ISBN9781479883011.
^
abcGoldberger, Paul (1979). The city observed, New York: a guide to the architecture of Manhattan (1st ed.). New York: Vintage. pp. 290–291, 314–315.
ISBN978-0-394-72916-9.
^Dolkart, Andrew (January 1, 1997). Touring Historic Harlem: Four Walks in Northern Manhattan. New York: New York Landmarks Conservancy. pp. 7–16, 108.
ISBN9780964706118.{{
cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (
link)
^Dunlap, David W. (1990). On Broadway: a journey uptown over time. New York: Rizzoli. pp. 285-289.
ISBN978-0-8478-1181-6.
^Francis, Dennis Steadman (1979). Architects in practice, New York City, 1840-1900. New York: Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records, Inc. pp. 13, 57.{{
cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (
link)
^Stern, Robert A. M.; Gilmartin, Gregory; Massengale, John Montague (1983). New York 1900: metropolitan architecture and urbanism, 1890-1915. New York: Rizzoli. pp. 303-304.
ISBN978-0-8478-0511-2.
^National Archives Catalog. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Sugar Hill Historic District, February 25, 2002; p 33.
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319973.
^National Archives Catalog. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Sugar Hill Historic District, February 25, 2002; p 30.
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319973.
^Dolkart, Andrew S. (1998). Morningside Heights: a history of its architecture & development. The Columbia history of urban life. New York, NY: Columbia Univ. Press. pp. 291, 307.
ISBN978-0-231-07850-4.
^National Archives Catalog. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Sugar Hill Historic District, February 25, 2002; pp 44, 75.
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319973.
^National Archives Catalog. National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form, Saint Cecilia's Church and Convent, January 5, 1984; p 7.
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319927
^National Archives Catalog. National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form, Saint Cecilia's Church and Convent, January 5, 1984; pp 2, 6.
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319927