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| The Ontiora Addresses 200 West 55th Street or 856 Seventh Avenue New York, N.Y. 10019 Location West 55th Street and Seventh Avenue, southwest corner Neighborhood Midtown Built Nov. 2, 1882, to Sept. 29, 1883 Use Apartments and a deli. AIA Guide N/A Landmark Status Not a landmark — This was the last building put up by Edward S. Clark, who, with Hardenbergh as his architect, built the Van Corlear apartment house, which once stood across 55th Street from this building, the Wyoming apartment building, which once stood on the other side of Seventh Avenue and has been replaced by a building of the same name, the Dakota and rowhouses on West 73rd Street. At first it had one apartment per floor. Now there are 3 per floor. The Ontiora is next door to the famous Carnegie Deli. There was talk in 1997 that it and some adjacent properties would one day be fit for demolition. From The Times, in 1997: THE Clarks were famous for keeping their properties in top condition, but the Ontiora is now far from what Edward Clark envisioned: dirty and bedraggled, swamped by traffic and noise, the ground floor now turned over to commerce. The halls have open trash cans -- Clark would have had staff whisk any garbage away by dumbwaiter -- and the walls are grimy with age.Newspaper articles
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