5. The Beaconsfield

The Grand Concourse is celebrated as an apartment house corridor and its buildings are generally well documented. By contrast, buildings “off the Concourse” often exist in relative obscurity.  One such building is The Beaconsfield at 1475 Sheridan Avenue, located one block to the east at the corner of East 172nd Street.

Built about 1929, little information is available about The Beaconsfield. But, it has an attractive facade of yellow, brown, and orange bricks, making use of brick projections and terra cotta to provide visual interest. Sitting on a hill sloping down from the Grand Concourse, its East 172nd Street frontage is a pedestrian step street

In 2013 ownership of The Beaconsfield changed hands and the new owners have restored the appearance of the ornate details around the building entrance, such as returning the green color to the leaf reliefs above the door that had been painted white.