Paterno Castle (New York City)

The Paterno Castle in 1908, from The New York Times

Paterno Castle was an estate in the Hudson Heights section of the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City which featured a Neo-Gothic mansion built in 1905 and based on a European castle. It was owned by its namesake, the real estate developer and philanthropist, Dr. Charles V. Paterno.^[1] The castle cost more than half a million dollars to build.^[2] The interior featured a cellar dedicated to raising mushrooms and a swimming pool which employed filtered water from the nearby Hudson River, while, the grounds featured Italian gardens and pergolas.

The castle and most of the rest of the estate was razed in 1938 by Paterno in order to erect the "Castle Village" complex of co-operative apartments.^[3]

References

Notes

1. Oteri, Danielle. "A Neighborhood of Castles in the Sky: Washington Heights before The Cloisters" Metropolitan Museum of Art (November 15, 2013)
2. Hogarty, Dave. "Cornerspotted: Paterno Castle of Washington Heights" Curbed (May 15, 2012)
3. "Demolishing A Castle In New York 1938" (video) British Pathé

Further reading

• "The Lost 1909 Paterno Castle -- 185th Street and Riverside Drive" Daytonian in Manhattan (July 6, 2012)
• "Paterno Castle" My Inwood
• "Charles V. Paterno: His Castle Ruled Washington Heights" Keith York City
• "Dr. Charles V. Paterno Residence" New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists website
• "Postcards from the Edge of Town" Forgotten New York

External links

• Media related to Paterno Castle (New York City) at Wikimedia Commons

Coordinates: 40°51′11″N 73°56′25″W / 40.8531°N 73.9403°W