1927–1928: CONSTRUCTION BEGINS…

Poster text:

“The three five-story tenement houses on a plot 75 by 100 feet at 110 to 114 East Eighty-ninth Street were sold yesterday… The property has been purchased by the Dalton Schools, Inc.”
—The New York Times, October 14, 1927.

The houses are demolished and the construction of 108 East 89th Street begins in 1928. The building is designed by Architect, Richard H. Dana.