George Frederick Pelham was an American architect

Architect

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. He worked for 43 years during which he designed numerous apartment buildings and office buildings in New York City

New York City

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. His final building was the Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company Building.

Mr. Pelham was also the architect of the Chalfonte Hotel at 200 West 70th Street in Manhattan

Manhattan

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. Built in 1927, it was later converted to rental apartments and is still standing today.

In 1905, he designed the Riverdale apartment building at 67 Riverside Drive

Riverside Drive (Manhattan)

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 for developer John Louis Miller. It opened on October 31, 1907. In 1905 he also designed a new synagogue building for Brooklyn's Beth Jacob Anshe Sholom

Congregation Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom

Congregation Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom is an Orthodox synagogue located at 284 Rodney Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York...

, based on Arnold Brunner

Arnold Brunner

Arnold William Brunner was an American architect who was born and died in New York City. Brunner was educated in New York and in Manchester, England. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied under William R. Ware. Early in his career, he worked in the architectural...

's West Side Synagogue building on Manhattan's West 88th Street.

Building List

	Building Name	Floors	Year
1.	St. James House	20	1931
2.	121 East 31st Street	12	1931
3.	1120 Park Avenue	19	1930
4.	47 East 88th Street	16	1930
5.	Atlantic Bank	16	1930
6.	81 Irving Place	14	1930
7.	98 Riverside Drive	17	1929
8.	Bedford Hotel	17	1929
9.	50 West 96th Street	15	1929
10.	944 Park Avenue	15	1929
11.	Belvoir Apartments	16	1928
12.	245 Fifth Avenue	26	1927
13.	33 Riverside Drive	17	1927
14.	585 West End Avenue	17	1927
15.	115 East 86th Street	16	1927
16.	310 West 106th Street	16	1927
17.	The Broadmoor	16	1927
18.	Beekman Apartments	15	1927
19.	Chalfonte Hotel	15	1927
20.	263 West 38th Street	17	1926
21.	1225 Park Avenue	16	1926
22.	20 West 77th Street	16	1926
23.	Park Royal Hotel	16	1926
24.	164 West 79th Street	15	1926
25.	Hotel Milburn	15	1926
26.	The Olcott Olcott Hotel The Olcott Hotel is an establishment on West Seventy-Second street in New York City's Upper West Side. It was built by the Lapidus Engineering Company beginning in late 1925. The edifice was one of a number of structures constructed at the time from Central Park West to Columbus Avenue on...	16	1925
27.	10 West 86th Street	15	1925
28.	1136 5th Avenue	15	1925
29.	910 West End Avenue	15	1925
30.	Surrey Apartments	15	1925
31.	1160 Park Avenue	14	1925
32.	Hotel Plaza Athénée	16	1924
33.	The Florence	16	1924
34.	140 West 86th Street	15	1924
35.	161 West 54th Street	15	1924
36.	290 Riverside Drive	15	1924
37.	Bradford Hotel Bradford Hotel (New York, New York) The Bradford Hotel is a New York City establishment which opened on October 18, 1924, at 206 - 22 West 70th Street in Manhattan. It cost $2,000,000 to build and was owned by the Lapidus Engineering Company...	15	1924
38.	Butler Hall	15	1924
39.	The Gatsby	15	1924
40.	300 Riverside Drive	14	1924
41.	136 East 36th Street	12	1924
42.	Marboro Apartments	16	1923
43.	135 East 74th Street	12	1923
44.	Oxford Apartments	15	1922
45.	29 East 64th Street	12	1922
46.	710 West End Avenue	15	1920
47.	270 West End Avenue	13	1918
48.	Bellguard Apartments	12	1915
49.	Buchova Apartments	12	1915
50.	36 West 25th Street	16	1912
51.	44 West 28th Street	16	1912
52.	675 West End Avenue	16	1912
53.	133 West 21st Street	12	1911
54.	37 West 28th Street	12	1911
55.	72 Madison Avenue	12	1911
56.	15 East 32nd Street	12	1909
57.	Fowler Court	12	1909
58.	The Lansdown (now The Lyric)	6	1908
59.	The Riverdale	9	1907
60.	Dream Hotel	13	1904
61.	504-508 East 12th Street	6	1904
62.	Parc 77	13	1903
63.	175 West 79th Street	16
64.	21 East 90th Street	16
65.	400 East 58th Street	16
66.	14 East 90th Street	12
67.	Hadson Hotel	12
68.	The Fanwood	6	1890