The Beresford

Along with the Dakota and the San Remo, the Beresford is one of the Upper West Side’s most elegant and exclusive residential apartment buildings. Erected in 1929 (just weeks before the stock market crashed) and designed to look like an Italian palazzo, the three-towered Beresford is decorated with winged cherubim and dolphin statues in the Renaissance style and conceals an interior courtyard with a garden and fountain. I chose to include the Latin motto that really is on the building’s elevator doors—Fronte Nulla Fides or Place No Trust in Appearances-- in The Twilight Prisoner as a hint to Jack that Austin’s life may not be as perfect as it seems.