A. Darabondi

Full name: Asa Daribondi. Born 28 MAY 1886; disappeared 1950; declared dead 2 SEP 1960. Architect of record for the conversion of the Lundine mansion into the McAllistor Building apartment complex (permit addendum 2 MAR 1953). From the Art Life Dossier and The Daribondi Clipping.

Spelling

Sources spell it both **"Darabondi"** and **"Daribondi."** Tracked here under Darabondi; first name **Asa** per The Daribondi Clipping.

Chicago Origins (The Daribondi Clipping)

A ~1906 Chicago newspaper hailed the "young Asa Daribondi" as Chicago's "Picasso" of architecture — a native prodigy whose strange buildings came to him in his dreams and were appearing in wealthy neighborhoods near the lake (Lake Michigan).

He Builds From Dreams — and He's From Chicago

**Dream-architecture** is exactly what the night floors are (a structure grown from a sleeper's dream — The Sleeping Man's Library). Daribondi was doing it in **Chicago decades before** the 1953 Lundine conversion. And **Chicago** is where **Decraig Corp** (the induction-kit supplier) is based. The architect who designed the impossible building may have been designing impossible buildings his whole life.

New York Career (The Daribondi Books)

His Chicago work (1905–1921) was a series of strange, misshapen structures he called "Thought Buildings." After a 1921 "religious revelation" / "drug experience," he moved to New York and lived at an unnamed midtown hotel.
The nine buildings he erected in NYC all still stand. Unlike the Chicago work, they are mundane and of-the-age — ordinary but for small, obsessed-about flourishes. The McAllistor Building is one of these: an ordinary house hiding impossible geometry inside.
A 1928 photo places him at an art deco hotel with a "B" on each door, facing Madison Square Park (the Eternal Light Flagstaff reflected in the glass) — a hotel he "helped restore in lieu of payment" and lived in. Almost certainly the Hotel Broadalbin (The Daribondi Books).

Nine Ordinary-Looking Buildings, All Still Standing

He learned to **hide the dream behind a mundane façade.** Nine such buildings remain in Manhattan; the McAllistor and, by the photo, the Broadalbin are two of them. How many of the other seven are hiding night floors?

Boston — Dorchester House (Session 8)

The crew's research places Daribondi as the designer of the Dorchester House Psychiatric Facility in Boston — the same architect as the McAllistor Building.

His Footprint Isn't Just the Nine, and Isn't Just NYC

Dorchester House is in **Boston**, outside the "nine NYC buildings" of The Daribondi Books — so his impossible architecture reaches **further than the crew knew.** If the facility is his, it likely hides its own night floors; and any credit on its **1986 renovation** is a **posthumous permit** (he was declared dead in 1960) — the same signature-after-death trick as the 1953 McAllistor refit.

Criminal Record

Suspected of having drowned at least five — possibly up to twenty — children between 1947 and 1950. Never tried; disappeared in 1950, leaving the drowned body of five-year-old Isabelle Sauer and huge debts. Declared legally dead by his mother, 2 SEP 1960.

The Logbook Runs to 1921

He left a **log book tracking child deaths back to 1921** — the year he arrived in New York — though he was only *suspected* of killings from 1947. The private ledger predates the public crime by **26 years** (The Daribondi Books). Where the logbook is now is unknown.

A Vanished Man's Signature on a Later Permit

Darabondi **disappeared in 1950** yet is the **architect of record on the 1953 refit permit** — work credited to a man three years after he vanished. Same impossibility as the paperwork that is 50 years old yet recent, and the tenants whose minds go up while their bodies sleep.

Same Birthday as the Owner

**28 MAY 1886** — the **exact birthday of Henry Lundine**, the building's owner. Architect and owner, born the same day. A doubling of the kind the case keeps producing.

Open Questions

A suspected serial drowner of children designed the building's layout — including, presumably, whatever geometry supports the night floors. Is the impossible architecture his?
Where did he go in 1950? (Same year Charles Lundine hanged himself.)
Relationship to Star Corporation and to Henry Lundine beyond the shared birthday.