Neville & Bagge

This architectural firm was responsible for numerous buildings on West End Ave, both large apartment buildings and smaller townhouses or rowhouses.

Buildings on West End Avenue include 325, 490, 498, 590, 702-704, 789, 801, 817, 850, 851, 860-868, 929 and 933.

“The firm of Neville & Bagge was established in 1892 with offices on West 125th Street in Harlem, a site convenient to the uptown neighborhoods where construction was booming. Although Neville & Bagge was one of the most prolific firms active at the turn of the century, almost nothing is known about either Thomas P. Neville or his partner George A. Bagge.

This lack of biographical information also holds true for most of the architects who designed speculative rowhouses.”
Andrew S. Dolkart, Morningside Heights: A History of Its Architecture and Development
(Columbia University Press, 2001), p. 279

“…unlike many of their colleagues, were able to evolve into an apartment-house firm when row-house production dwindled.
Their firm didn't last much past 1920, but in the early 1900's they churned out designs of very limited variety at an astonishing rate. In their peak year, 1909, they filed plans for 57 projects just in Manhattan. Neville & Bagge's bay-windowed facade for El Nido is seen on many rectilinear buildings. But on the angled corner site the commonplace blossomed into the wonderful.”
Christopher Gray, Streetscapes/El Nido, 116th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue; Amid a Grid of Boxes, a Triangular-Shaped Building, New York Times, March 16, 2003, section 11, p. 7