The San Remo stands at 145 and 146 Central Park West, between 74th and 75th Streets on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Emery Roth designed it, construction began in 1929, and it was completed on September 21, 1930. It replaced an eleven-story San Remo of 1891. The building is 27 stories and 400 feet (120 meters) tall, with a 17-story base around an internal courtyard and two ten-story towers.
Each tower is topped by a temple in the Corinthian order, patterned after the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates. The style is Renaissance Revival.
The building soon faced financial trouble. Its mortgage holder, the Bank of United States, collapsed, and it went through receivership and foreclosure. It became a housing cooperative in 1972, and the city designated it a landmark in 1987. Past residents include Diane Arbus, John Barrymore and Stephen Sondheim.
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