Perfectly located. Friendly staff. Love the roof top!

Named after Anson Green Phelps, the industrialist and grandfather of the buildings developer, this exuberant Beaux Arts hotel and apartment building was inspired by French hotels. However, at eighteen stories it is much taller than its 6-story models. The largest and grandest of the New York apartment-hotels, it functioned as a place where one could live temporarily, but in grand style.In addition to the ample apartments, the Ansonia featured a grand ballroom, several cafes, tea rooms, writing rooms, a lobby fountain with live seals, a palm court, a Turkish bath and the worlds largest indoor swimming pool. These amenities enticed many famous cultural personalities to take up residence in the building. The Ansonias enormous bulk is somewhat reduced by its complex massing and its intricate ornamentation. Light courts break up the monumental facade and allow the maximum amount of light and air to penetrate the interior.The Ansonia is typical of the standard of luxury applied to turn of the century apartment buildings on Manhattans Upper West Side.With seventeen stories and 300 suites, the Ansonia is covered with ornament and balconies, marked by beautifully scaled corner towers, and topped by mansards in the very best French tradition.Despite the proliferation of ornamentation, the effect of the whole is one of lightness, grace and elegance. The tiers of windows, recessed courts and rounded towers establish a sense of the vertical, while a series of balconies emphasize the horizontal.The extensive ornamentation and lacy ironwork combined with the smooth panels of the brick work creates a dramatically elegant surface.The Ansonia was constructed with heavy, all masonry fireproof materials with heavy interior partitions to separate the individual apartments, thus making them virtually soundproof as well.

My favorite building in New York City, on of the best buildings ever build in NYC!!!

Magnificent building

Spectacular building to stand and stare at

Exterior is something you seldom see.

Ansonia is an old and very beautiful house with its own name.

Good reception, answer adapted to our questions.

Apartment To expensive

It is the building that describes the book The invention of a murder by Jed Rubenfeld (in the book they change the name El Balmoral)

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