Friendship Apartments

Built in 1941.

Owner: Cosmopolitan Realty Co.

General contractors: Cathay Construction Co.

"Practical, simple but modern throughout." Such was the summary for the building at the corner of Route du Pere Huc and Route Gustave de Boissezon – "a section of the French Concession rapidly developing into a first-class residential district." 

The general contractors was a firm owned by the architect N. N. Emanoff, who also designed the building together with E. L. Gindper. The plumbing and heating engineers and contractors were the Shanghai Waterworks Fittings Co., while China Engineers were the electrical contractors.