Cleburne Building (also known as 924 West End Avenue) is an apartment building located at the northeast corner of

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and West 105th Street on the

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. The Cleburne was completed in 1913 by real estate developer Harry Schiff on the site of the mansion of

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and Mrs. Isidor Straus who perished on the . There is a memorial to Mr. and Mrs. Straus in nearby

Straus Park __NOTOC__ Straus Park is a small landscaped park on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, at the intersection of Broadway, West End Avenue, and 106th Street. The most notable feature is a bronze 1913 statue by American artist Augustus Lukeman of a ...

. The building, which is designed in the Arts and Crafts Movement style, has a handsome

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Notable residents

* Madeleine L'Engle *

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and

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, composer of "The Wiz"

References

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