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Cleburne Building, 924 West End Avenue is an apartment building located at West End Avenue and 105th Steet in Manhattan, New York City.

The Cleburne was completed in 1913 by real estate developer Harry Schiff on the site of the mansion of Isidor Straus and Ida Straus who perished on the Titanic. There is a memorial to the Straus' in nearby Straus Park.[1]

The building, which is designed in Arts and Crafts movement style has a handsome Porte-cochere.[2]

Notable residents[]

  • Madeleine L'Engle[3]

References[]

  1. Streetscapes/Straus Park, 106th Street and West End Avenue; A Restored Memorial to 2 Who Died on the Titanic, New York times, Christopher Grey, August 23, 1998 [1]
  2. Streetscapes - West End Avenue, New York Times, Christopher Grey, Nov. 23, 2008, [2]
  3. West End Home of A Wrinkle in Time Author Sells for $4 M, by Lysandra Ohrstrom, March 7, 2008, New York Observer, [3]
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