General Information

The Langham apartment building in Manhattan was designed in the French Second Empire style by architects Clinton and Russell and constructed between 1905 and 1907. The site was filmed by Woody Allen in 1986 in “Hannah and her Sisters”- it was there that the eponymous heroine lived and her memorable Thanksgiving dinners were held each year.

Additional Information

The Langham was listed as a contributing property to the Central Park West Historic District when the district was listed on the US National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is also part of the Upper West Side/Central Park West local historic district.

History: Highlights

By September 1906 the finishing touches were applied and The Langham was fully complete and open for rental in 1907. The reporting from The New York Times lavished praise upon the building when it opened, noting among its modern amenities “real ice.” The apartments rented for $500 per month and attracted wealthy and successful tenants early on.

History: Explained

In 1902 the property on which The Langham stands belonged to the same family (the Clarks) who owned the prestigious Dakota apartment. The location remained vacant until the Clark family liquidated it in 1902. The site was purchased by Abraham Boehm and Lewis Coon but remained vacant until 1904. Architects Clinton and Russell, working for Boehm and Coon, filed plans for a US$2 million building in 1904. In 2006, when the building was put up for sale, a writer for the New York Sun reported that estimates of the price went as high as $600 million.