Great Houses of New York, 1880-1940. Volume 2

Urban Domestic Architecture Series

GREAT HOUSES of

New York 1880–1940 VOLUME II

Michael C. Kathrens

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i n 2005 acanthus press released Great Houses of New York: 1880–1930, a volume documenting the important houses erected in the city during a period of unparalleled prosperity and expansion. The book focused on residential projects by major American architects and, by extension, their contributions to the development of the Great House tradition in this country and within Western culture in general. Because of space limitations the publisher and I were compelled to omit many seminal houses from this earlier work. Fortunately we can now rectify these regrettable omissions with a second volume, introducing equally important, if lesser known, projects and the architects and decorators who created them. —Michael C. Kathrens, April 2012

To Jean Kathrens and Marci McMillen

con t en t s

introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Heber R. Bishop / Adolph Lewisohn 881 Fifth Avenue . . . . . 31 Charles L. Tiffany 27 East 72nd Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Louis Stern 452 Madison Avenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Henry O. Havemeyer 1 East 66th Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Isaac V. Brokaw 1 East 79th Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 H.A.C. Taylor 3 East 71st Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Oliver Gould Jennings 7 East 72nd Street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 William J. Schieffelin 5 East 66th Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 James F. D. Lanier II 122 East 35th Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Isaac L. Rice 346 West 89th Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Payne Whitney 972 5th Avenue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 R. Livingston Beeckman 854 5th Avenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Elihu Root 733 Park Avenue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Jeanette Dwight Bliss 9 East 68th Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 C. K. G. Billings Fort Tryon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Ernest Flagg 109 East 40th Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 James B. Clews 1 East 85th Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

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Edwin Gould 936 Fifth Avenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Percy R. Pyne 680 Park Avenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Oakleigh Thorne 783 Park Avenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Reginald De Koven 1025 Park Avenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Lewis Gouverneur Morris 1015 Park Avenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Lucy Drexel Dahlgren 15 East 96th Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 William Woodward 9 East 86th Street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Henry P. Davison 690 Park Avenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Charles M. MacNeill 15 East 91st Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Harold I. Pratt 60 East 68th Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Alice T. McLean 125 East 54th Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Anne Morgan 3 Sutton Place. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Thomas W. Lamont 107 East 70th Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 William Fahnestock 457 Madison Avenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Marshall Field III 4 East 70th Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 William Vincent Astor 130 East 80th Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 William Ziegler Jr. 166 East 55th Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Arthur Lehman 45 East 70th Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Virginia Graham Fair Vanderbilt 60 East 93rd Street . . . . . . . 265 Edward A. Norman 124 East 70th Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

the architects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

GREAT HOUSES of

New York 1880–1940 VOLUME II

James F. D. Lanier II House 123 East 35th Street hoppin & koen, 19 01– 03

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HIS SUMP TUOUS MUR R AY HILL residence was the home of James Franklin Doughty Lanier II (1858–1928), of French Huguenot descent, and his wife Harriet Bishop Lanier (1860– 1931), the daughter of sugar magnate Heber R. Bishop.

James’s grandfather, J. F. D. Lanier I (1800–81), made a banking and railroad fortune in Indiana before moving to New York in 1849 and opening the banking and investment house of Winslow, Lanier & Co. with partner Richard Winslow. After graduating from Princeton in 1880, the younger Lanier joined his grandfather’s firm and initiated a successful career in finance. He also excelled at fox hunting and was an early member of the Meadowbrook Hunt Club, as well as a pioneer automobile enthusiast and member of the Automobile Club of America. Meanwhile, his wife, with her passion for music, founded the Society of the Friends of Music in 1913, an organization that promoted “rare and little-known works, old and of today.” The couple also had a country estate in Westbury, Long Island, which they sold soon after acquiring their Newport villa, Gravel Court, in 1905.

By 1900 fashionable society was moving northward, erecting houses on the blocks just east of

Inner Vestibule

Central Park. Because of this overwhelming migration it might appear nonsensical for Lanier to have built such an opulent home on East 35th Street, but even though Murray Hill was experiencing commercial development along Fifth Avenue, it still retained a tony residential atmosphere between Madison and Lexington Avenues—primarily due to prominent residents such as J. P. Morgan, J. Hampton Robb, and Captain J. Raphael De Lamar. In the end, the Lanier house overwhelmed its older and stodgier brownstone neighbors, which may have been exactly what its owner intended.

The house was designed by Francis L. V. Hoppin (1866–1941), of the firm of Hoppin & Koen, in a beautifully articulated Louis XVI manner. It replaced two narrow brownstones, which afforded it a 33-foot street frontage. The structure sits on a rusticated limestone base pierced by three round-topped openings that have swag-draped, scrolled keystones. Inserted in the easternmost aperture is a modeled set of oak doors surmounted by an oeil-de-boeuf window framed by carved cornucopia. The second and third floors are united by four limestone Ionic pilasters. Here the wall plane is of red brick, while the French doors of the piano nobile and the third-floor windows have elegantly rendered stone surrounds. A bracketed cornice holds an iron railing that fronts the fourth-

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Entrance Hall

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floor windows, while above is a copper-sheathed roof that has dormer windows topped by pediments.

Inside, a marble-lined vestibule leads to a gallery hall that has an architecturally treated Caen stone veneer whose innermost section has three stainedglass skylights. The white marble floor is bordered in green Vermont marble, and opposite the colonnade demarcating the adjacent staircase hall is a wall fountain of Italian Renaissance design. Immediately on the left is a silk-walled reception room that has white Louis XVI–style woodwork with gilded details, and at the rear of this level is a dining room that has a richly molded plaster ceiling and walls delineated by Corinthian pilasters. Upstairs, the Louis XVI drawing room has walls covered in French gray and white boiserie, with drapery and upholstery fabrics in blue and silver. An oak-paneled library and small smoking

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room fill the back of the house, the former having a marble mantel and bookcases guarded by delicate brass wire meshing. The third floor is devoted to a master suite consisting of two bedrooms, a boudoir for Mrs. Lanier, and two bathrooms. Each of these has a marble fireplace. Guest and children’s bedrooms are located on the fourth floor, and the top of the house contains 10 servants’ rooms. Two additional staff rooms are located in the basement, along with the kitchen and servants’ hall.

Following the death of Mrs. Lanier in 1931, three years after her husband’s, the house was inherited by their surviving son Reginald Bishop Lanier (1888– 1979). It remained in the family until after the death of Reginald’s widow, Helen Cameron Lanier, in 1987.

It is still in private residential use today.

top: Library; bot tom: Drawing Room

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Isaac L. Rice House—Villa Julia 346 West 89th Street herts & ta ll a n t, 19 01– 03

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ILLA JULIA IS ONE of only a handful of houses in the city to bear a name, not just an address. It was also one of a dozen freestanding homes erected on Riverside Drive between 1890 and 1910, when it was mainly dominated by upper-middle– class attached row houses. Isaac Leopold Rice (1850–1915), an academic turned corporate attorney, had purchased the irregularly shaped lot across from the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in 1899; it had a 110-foot frontage, but because of a curve in Riverside Drive it extended back 148 feet in mid-block and only 101 feet on its 89th Street corner. In 1901 Rice commissioned the firm of Herts & Tallant, best known for their theater designs, to create a fully detached house that would comfortably accommodate a family with six children. Rice named the house for his wife, the former Julia Hyneman Barnet (b. 1860), who founded the Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise to eliminate excessive whistle blowing from boats on the Hudson River and to create quiet zones around city hospitals.

A classically detailed brick and white marble perimeter wall is pierced on the west by a wide set of

West 89th Street (left) and Riverside Drive Facades

steps ascending to an elevated front door facing the river, while the northern side opens onto a bow-fronted porte cochere located within the basement of the house.

Set between the arched openings of the latter is a pediment-topped tablet depicting the Rice children as allegories for the arts. These elements create a distinctive platform from which the Italian Renaissance–style villa rises. A belt course atop the first floor is executed as a modified entablature, which arches into a halfcircle above the centrally placed entrance to the house.

This primary entrance is entirely sheathed in marble, and its crowning arch, embellished with a large decorative keystone, is supported by attached Doric columns. Within this space the pediment-topped front door is crowned by a divided second-story window.

These Palladian elements are augmented by firstfloor windows framed by Doric columns that rest on marble balconies—such classical details help to give the house its monumental vitality and strong visual appeal. Although the second-story windows have flat arched lintels in the English style, the Italian influence returns at the top of the house, where there is a tile roof with projecting eaves in the Florentine manner.

The principal spaces within the house are decorated in traditional styles, and several rooms have wood paneling; the living room even has a highly

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Morris Schinasi House, 107th Street and Riverside Drive, ca. 1907

ornamental wooden ceiling. Perhaps the most important room in the house, at least for the owner—Rice was an inveterate player who developed a famous chess move called the Rice Gambit—was the chess room where many a tournament was held. This room was decorated in the American Arts & Crafts manner with sturdy playing tables surrounded by chairs with leather cushions.

According to an article in The New York Times, the Rice family was spending so much time abroad that they decided to sell Villa Julia, thereby forgoing its high maintenance costs, and Rice instead chose to house

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his family in a spacious apartment at the Ansonia. It has also been suggested, however, that Rice may have needed to sell the house due to losses he experienced during the Panic of 1907. In December of that year cigarette manufacturer Solomon Schinasi purchased the house for $600,000. The same year that Schinasi bought the house, his brother Maurice (Morris) was building an imposing white marble mansion at 107th Street and Riverside Drive. After residing at Villa Julia for almost two decades, the Schinasi family leased it to several institutions before finally selling the structure in 1954 to the Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim, under whose ownership it became a designated city landmark.

Since 1988 it has been occupied by Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan.

top: Chess Room; bot tom : Rice Family in the Library; Isaac L Rice

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Marshall Field iii House 4 East 70th Street david adler, 1925–27

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ARSHALL FIELD III (1893–1956) was principal heir to one of the greatest mercantile and real estate fortunes in the country. It had been created by his grandfather, founder of the Chicago emporium Marshall Field & Company. His own father, Marshall Field II, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1905, after which his widow took their son to England to live. After attending Eton and graduating from Cambridge, Field returned to the United States in 1914 to assume management of his grandfather’s estate. The following year he married Evelyn Marshall (1888–1979), daughter of the late Charles H. Marshall, who had been a partner in the New York investment house of Butler, Herrick & Marshall. During World War I Field joined the 1st Illinois Cavalry and served with distinction in the 122nd Field Artillery. Following the war he worked at investment houses in both Chicago and New York, before becoming a partner in the firm of Marshall Field, Glore, Ward & Co. in 1921.

Although retaining Chicago affiliations, Field committed himself to making New York his principal residence by asking John Russell Pope to design the

Facade Drawing by Schell Lewis

main house and polo stable complex at Caumsett, his 1,750-acre Long Island estate. Concurrent with the completion of the estate he decided to erect an imposing city residence as well, this time selecting noted Chicago architect David Adler for the commission. Begun in 1925, 4 East 70th Street had a 63-foot-wide facade and was built to a depth of 97 feet, thus making it one of the largest houses in the city. The Georgian facade of the six-story house was faced in brick with judiciously applied limestone detailing. Entrance was gained through a door with a stone surround capped by a broken pediment filled with a decorative cartouche. Adler tried to soften the structure’s massive appearance by the use of setbacks on its upper two stories and by adding projecting single-story limestone pavilions at either end of the facade. The rear elevation had a similar treatment, but with the addition of oval bust-filled niches placed above the first-floor windows. These ornamental niches were inspired by those found at Ham House in England. Here a bonnet-topped central doorway was fronted by a run of stone steps descending to the garden below. Small single-story pavilions with copper roofs topped by eagle finials projected from either end of the structure and were attached to limestone colonnades extending to 69th

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Street, where a garage and service complex was planned, but never built.

Unfortunately no known interior views exist, thus informed descriptions of the rooms’ decorative finishes are impossible to make. That said, we do know that most rooms were paneled in a Colonial or Georgian manner and were probably similar to those at Castle Hill, the Richard T. Crane Jr. estate in Ipswich, Massachusetts, that Adler was working on at the same time. Off the marble paved entrance hall were facilities for men and women on one side and a reception room on the other. The back of the house held a dining room that accessed a small adjacent space for the display of porcelain. In the center of the house was a large hall that had a staircase leading up to a 46-by-30-foot living room and a library of similar dimensions. The third floor contained Mrs. Field’s suite, which extended the entire width of the garden front. The suite consisted of a bedroom, boudoir, secretary’s office, and a maid’s pressing room.

Her husband’s rooms at the front of the house were connected to hers by a series of bath and dressing rooms. There were two guest rooms on this level, with additional guest chambers as well as children’s rooms on the floor above. The fifth and sixth floors were filled with staff accommodations.

The Fields divorced in 1930, and Evelyn retained ownership of the house. Two years later there was an opportunity to convert the structure into a clubhouse for the Intown Country Club, but these plans never reached fruition. In 1937 Evelyn, now Mrs. Diego Suarez, sold the house to developers who tore it down to make way for two apartment buildings: one facing 70th Street, and the other, 69th Street. By that time Evelyn was comfortably ensconced in an Adlerdesigned duplex apartment at the River House on East 52nd Street. Sadly, the architect’s most important urban work survived for only a decade.

Marshall Field III

Main Facade Under Construction

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top: Garden Facade Under Construction; bot tom: Colonnade Detail

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First, Second, and Third Floor Plans

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The American Architect: July 5, 1911: 142, 145 top and bottom

Architecture and Building: March 19, 1898: 68

The American Arc:hitect and Building News: December 10, 1887: 44; February 17, 1900: 46

Artistic Houses: 14 bottom

American Chess Bulletin: January 1916: 99 top and bottom American Homes of To-day, 1924: 212, 214 top and bottom, 224, 226, 227 top and bottom, 229 top Anastassios Mentis Photography: 267, 270 top www.Andreabrizzi.com: 272, 274, 276 (all), 277, 278, 279 The Architectural Forum: August 1924: 23; August 1924: 216, 220 top and bottom, 221 top and bottom, 222, 223; August 1928: 248, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257 Architectural Record: October-December 1891: 64, 65 top and bottom; April-June 1892: 52, 56, 57 top and bottom, 58 top and bottom; October 1900: 42, 43, 45 top; July 1900-April 1901: 72, 74, 75, 76 bottom; April 1902: 76 top; September 1907: 136, 138, 139 top and bottom, 140, 141; May 1913: 163; August 1917: 167 bottom, 168, 169; JulyDecember 1918: 32, 34, 35; March 1922: 229 bottom; July 1923: 184, 187, 206, 207, 208 top Architectural Review: January 1905: 93; July 1919: 194, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201 Architecture: July 15, 1900: 16 top and bottom; June 15, 1901: 49, 50 top and bottom, 51; May 1903: 94, 96-97; April 1911: 146; May 1919: 188, 191 top and bottom, 192 top and bottom, 193; August 1921: 210, 213; April 1933: 242, 245, 246 top and bottom, 247; April 1934: 258, 260 top and bottom, 261, 262 top and bottom

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Art Institute of Chicago: 238, 240 top Arts & Decoration: September 1926: 108, 110, 111, 112, 113 (all) Author’s Collection: 3, 10 top and bottom, 11, 12, 13, 14 top, 15, 18, 19, 20, 25, 27 left , 48 top and bottom, 60, 78, 80, 81, 82 top and bottom, 83 top and bottom, 84 top and bottom, 98, 104, 178, 181 top and bottom, 182, 244 Benedict, Scott: 85, 113, 127, 177, 183, 186, 209, 215, 263 Bowdoin College Library ,George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives: 120, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126 (all) The Brickbuilder: June 1913: 164, 167 top, 170 top and bottom, 171 Carlton Hobbs, llc: 264, 266, 267-268, 270 bottom

Monograph of the Works of McKim, Mead & White 1879-1915: 20 top, 38, 45 bottom, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 100, 102 top and bottom, 103, 105, 106 bottom; 152, 154, 156, 157 Museum of the City of New York: 93.1.1.18259 Madison Avenue, N. from 72 nd St., about 1900, Byron Company: 40-41; 93.1.1.17184 852 Fifth Ave, ca. 1901 Byron Company: 53-54; 93.1.1.17192 1 East 79 th St., ca. 1901 Byron Company: 62-63 Collection of the New-York Historical Society: 155 (neg. 69773), 158 (neg. 69780), 160 (69781), 161, (neg. 69776), 162 top (neg.

69826) and bottom (neg. 69775), 172 (neg.

69785), 174 (neg. 69795), 175 (neg. 69794), 176 (neg. 69794), 232 (neg. 69803), 233 (neg.

69802), 234 top (neg. 69818) and bottom (neg. 69806), New York Public Library: 180, 240 Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc.: May 1939: 33, 36 bottom,

Council on Foreign Relations: 202, 204-205, 208 bottom

Private Collection: 17, 59, 128, 130-131, 132 top and bottom, 134 top and bottom, 153 top and bottom, , 230, 236, 241

Finkle, Orin Z.: www.househistorian.com: 250

Ross, Donald O.: 86, 88, 89, 90, 91 top and bottom, 92

House & Garden: 36 top, 37 top

Smith, Diana: 30

Indoors & Out: March 1906: 114, 116, 117, 118 top and bottom, 119

Town & Country: October 14, 1911: 106 top, 107

Library of Congress: 73, 101 left and right, 115, 151 left and right, 165, 195, 21, 239 Library of Congress, Gottscho-Schleisner Photographs: 148, 149 top and bottom, 150 Marchand, Richard: 77, 271

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A. T. Stewart House, 13–14 Abbey, Edwin A., 32 Adam-style. See English: Adam Adler, David, 237, 239, 280 Aesthetic Movement, 21, 40, 42–45, 56–59, 281 Alavoine, Lucien, 21 Aldrich, Chester H., 185, 282–83. See also Delano & Aldrich Alice T. McLean House, 210–15, 282 Allard, Jules, 21, 27, 31–32 Allom, Charles, 21 American Academy (Rome), 281, 283, 285 American Architect, The, 145 American Arts and Crafts style, 98–99 American Federal style, 172–73, 176, 285. See also Federal Revival style Americas Society, 155 Anderson, Mrs. Millbank, 20–22. See also Millbank Anderson House Anne Harriman Vanderbilt House, 22–24 Anne Morgan House, 216–23, 289 apartments/apartment buildings, 25, 98, 244 designers of, 280–81, 283, 289–90 on Fifth Avenue, 18, 22, 117, 133, 137 great houses split into, 26–27, 39–40, 166 on Park Avenue, 80, 159–60, 189, 250, 267 replacing great houses, 24, 26, 70, 151, 160, 239 Architectural Forum, 275 Architectural Record, 137, 280 art collections, 13, 31–32, 47, 49, 53, 56–57, 121, 123, 133, 160, 176, 197, 261, 267 Art Deco, 206, 258–59, 283 art glass, 21, 40, 56 Art Nouveau, 21, 133–34 Arthur Curtiss James House, 20–22, 159 Arthur Lehman House, 258–63, 283 Astor, Caroline, 17, 179 Astor, Helen Huntington, 243–44 Astor House, 15, 17, 25 Astor, John Jacob, 243 Astor, John Jacob, IV, 17 Astor, Mary Cushing, 244 Astor, William Vincent, 243–44. See also William Vincent Astor House Babb, Cook & Willard, 17, 290

Barnard, George Grey, 133 Barnes, Harriet L. See Pratt, Harriet Barnes Barnet, Julia Hyneman. See Rice, Julia Barnet Baumgarten, William, 31 Becket, Welton D., 250 Beeckman, Eleanor Thomas, 109, 111 Beeckman, Robert Livingston, 109, 111, 250. See also R. Livingston Beeckman House Beekman, James W., 24 Beekman Place, 24, 217 Berlin, Irving, 24 Bernhard, Mrs. Richard, 259 Berwind, Edward J., 27, 289 Beyer Blinder Belle firm, 226 Billings, Blanche, 129 Billings, C. K. G., 18, 129, 133. See also C. K. G. Billings House; Fort Tryon Hall Bingham, Harry Payne, 190 Bishop, Heber R., 30–37, 87. See also Heber R. Bishop House Bitter, Karl, 80, 83 Bliss, George Theodore, 121, 123 Bliss, Jeanette Dwight, 121, 123, 126–27. See also Jeanette Dwight Bliss House Bliss, Susan Dwight, 121, 123 Blumenthal, George, 22, 143, 159 Bodker, Albert Joseph, 159, 280 boiserie, 31, 111 François I, 121, 126 French antique, 90, 159, 267 from Hôtel D’Aumont, 123, 126 from Hôtel Gaulin, 267–69 Louis XV, 123, 126, 160, 162, 243, 245 Louis XVI, 90–91, 123, 126, 160 Bonnell, Margaret Elizabeth. See Flagg, Margaret Bonnell Boothe, Clare. See Brokaw, George and Clare Boothe Bottomley, William Lawrence, 22, 249–50, 281 Braganca, Princess, 176 Brewster, Mary Dows. See Jennings, Mary Dows Brewster Brewster, Robert S., 159 Broadway, 10–11, 17–18 Brokaw, Elvira, 64

Brokaw, George and Clare Boothe, 64 Brokaw, Isaac V., 61, 64. See also Isaac V. Brokaw House Brooklyn, 203, 284–85, 289 brownstones, 12–13, 15, 22, 24, 31, 33, 67, 79, 87, 217, 249, 273 Buchman & Fox firm, 129 Bullfinch, Charles, 203 Burchard, Anson W., 190 Burden, James A., 195, 290 Butler & Corse firm, 24 Byzantine style, 53, 61 C. K. G. Billings House, 18, 128–35 Caen stone, 24, 32, 80, 90, 109, 138, 160, 181 Candela, Rosario, 145, 289 Carnegie, Andrew, 17, 195, 286 Carnegie Hill, 27 Carrère & Hastings, 17, 73–74, 115, 147, 281–82 Carrère, John Mervin, 281. See also Carrère & Hastings Cartier, Pierre, 181 Central Park, 47, 87 Chambers, Walter B., 76, 283–84 Charles L. Tiffany House, 38–45 Charles M. MacNeill House, 194–201 châteauesque, 15, 17–18, 47, 61 Chrysler, Thelma. See Foy, Mrs. Byron C. Clark, Alfred C., 16 Clark, Mrs. Alfred Corning, 18 Clark, William Andrews, 24 Clews, James B., 143, 145. See also James B. Clews House Clews, Mary Ann Payne, 143 Clews, Neta Livingston, 143 Clinton, Charles W., 31, 281–82 Cloisters, The, 18, 133 Codman, Ogden, Jr., 179, 282 Coeur, Jacques, 17 Colman, Samuel, 56–57 Colonial Revival style, 22, 24, 216–17, 248–52, 255–56, 283 Corliss, Francis Haskell. See Lamont, Francis Corliss Cornell, Katherine, 24 Council on Foreign Relations, 206

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187, 203–04, 242–43, 258–59, 265–66 with limestone detailing, 87–88, 164, 166, 190–91, 216–17, 237–38 with marble, 94–97, 136–37 of multicolored brick, 248–49 of red-brick, 24, 87–88, 152–53, 172–73, 190–91 rusticated, 67–68, 78–79, 87–88, 142–43, 146–47, 158–59, 179–80, 190–91, 196–97, 203–04, 258–59 of stone, 87, 152–53, 164, 166, 196–97 of stucco, 26, 210–11, 273 of yellow Roman brick, 38–41 Fahnestock, William and Julia Goetchius, 231, 233.

See also William Fahnestock House Fairchild, Sherman M., 26 Fearing, Charlotte Talbot. See Taylor, Charlotte Fearing Federal Revival style, 22, 152–53, 203–08, 244, 249 Field, Evelyn Marshall, 237, 239, 282. See also Suarez, Evelyn Field Field, Marshall, III, 237, 239, 282. See also Marshall Field III House Fifield Piaker Elman, Architects, 244 Fifth Avenue, 61, 87 apartment buildings on, 18, 24, 26–27, 117, 133, 137, 151 Carnegie mansion on, 17, 195 early history of, 11, 13 great houses on, 31, 47, 76, 101, 103, 109, 143, 147, 151, 243 Vanderbilt mansions on, 15, 21 wealthy move from, 22, 217 Flagg & Chambers firm, 73, 283–84 Flagg, Ernest, 18, 137–38, 173, 283–84. See also Ernest Flagg House Flagg, Margaret Bonnell, 137–38 Forrestal, James V., 24 Fort Tryon Hall, 18, 128–35 Fort Tryon Park, 133 Foy, Mrs. Byron C., 267 François I style, 80, 109, 112, 121, 126 French styles Gothic, 15, 18, 21, 26, 46–47, 61–63 modern, 72–74, 281 Neoclassical, 21, 25, 115–16, 142–45, 158–60, 179–81 provincial, 273 Régence, 123 Renaissance, 18, 78–79 Second Empire, 17 See also François I style; Louis XIV style; Louis XV style; Louis XVI style Frick, Henry Clay, 26, 281 Gabriel, Ange-Jacques, 109 garages, 137–38, 176, 179, 190, 243 gardens, 194–95, 197, 200, 211–13, 219, 225–26, 237, 243, 249–50, 259, 274–75, 278, 286–87 Gary, Judge Elbert H., 25 Georgian style, 281, 288 exteriors, 17, 24, 114, 116, 185–87, 195, 236–37, 273, 283, 285 fireplaces, 153–54, 250, 252 interiors, 149, 151, 155, 197, 219–20, 239, 243–44, 246, 250, 254, 260–62, 267 libraries, 32, 36, 111, 190, 193, 261–62 Gibbons, Grinling, 151 Gibson, Harvey, 189, 290 Gilbert, C. P. H., 31–32, 284

Gillette, Leon N., 290. See also Walker & Gillette firm Goetchius, Julia Strong. See Fahnestock, William and Julia Goetchius Gorham Company, 109 Gothic Revival style, 15, 17, 26, 61–63, 280, 288 Gould, Edwin, 147, 151. See also Edwin Gould House Gould, Jay, 115, 147 Gould, Sarah Cantine Shrady, 147, 150–51 Gramercy Park, 67 Great Depression, 25–26, 265, 281 great houses demolition of, 22, 25–26, 64, 138, 145, 151, 160, 197, 212, 233, 239 European influence on, 9, 13, 15, 17, 21, 22, 39, 67 last flowering of, 25 and latest technology, 74 preservation of, 22, 24, 26–27, 176, 206, 275 replaced by apartments, 22, 24–27, 70, 117, 123, 145, 151, 160, 212, 239 Greek Revival style, 11, 13, 116 Griswold, Frank Gray and Josephine Houghteling, 160 H. A. C. Taylor House, 66–71 Haight, Charles C., 53, 284 Hamby, William, 26 Hammond, Henry, 155 Hammond, John Henry, 195 Hardenbergh, Henry J., 18 Harkness, Edward S., 26 Harmon & Associates, 151 Harold I. Pratt House, 202–09 Harriman, E. H., 31–32, 115 Harris, Brent R., 275 Hastings, Thomas, 281. See also Carrère & Hastings Hatton, John M., 211, 282. See also De Suarez & Hatton firm Havemeyer, Henry O., 53, 56–57. See also Henry O. Havemeyer House Havemeyer, Louisine Elder, 53, 56–57, 59 Heber R. Bishop House, 30–37, 281 Hébert, Maurice, 18 Heins & La Farge firm, 121, 281, 284–85 Heins, George Lewis, 284–85. See also Heins & La Farge firm Helmsley, Harry, 233 Henry O. Havemeyer House, 21, 52–59, 284 Henry P. Davison House, 188–93, 290 Herter Brothers, 31 Herts & Tallant firm, 95 historicist movement, 15 Hitau, Edward, 25 Hobbs, Carlton, 267 Hoppin & Koen firm, 87, 285 Hoppin, Francis L. V., 87, 285 Hôtel Gaulin (Dijon, France), 267–69 hôtel particulier style, 158–60 Houghten, Arthur A., Jr., 219 Howe & Lescaze, 286 Howe, George, 286 Howells, John Mead, 22 Howland, Maud. See Pyne, Maud Howland Hudson, Ethel De Koven, 166 Hudson, H. Kierstede, 166 Hunt, Richard Howland, 79, 285 Hunt, Richard Morris, 15, 17, 31, 47, 61, 243, 285,

288–89 Huntington, Helen Dinsmore. See Astor, Helen Huntington interiors antique elements in, 21, 160 contemporary style, 21, 26 crafted in England, 261–62 crafted in Europe, 21, 25, 123, 126 demolition/loss of, 24–27, 166, 250 eclectic manner of, 40, 56, 128–29, 132–33, 259 European influence on, 21, 74 preservation of, 24–27, 275 See also boiserie; painted ceilings; plasterwork; specific styles; wall coverings International style, 25–26, 272–79, 286 Irwin, Marion Parsons. See MacNeill, Marion Irwin Isaac L. Rice House, 94–99 Isaac V. Brokaw House, 60–65, 288 Italian Consulate, 190 Italian Renaissance style, 90, 249, 280 art, 103, 105, 122–23, 261 exteriors, 66–68, 94–97, 146–47 interiors, 32, 70, 102–07, 122–23, 147, 259 models for, 17, 67 Italian styles Florentine, 67, 95, 147, 160, 210–14 Italianate, 13, 18, 24, 210–14, 249–50, 273, 289 Venetian, 56, 61, 103–05 Jacobean style, 80, 82, 224–29, 289 Jacobs, Harry Allen, 22 James & Leo firm, 40 James, Arthur Curtiss, 20–22, 159, 189. See also Arthur Curtiss James House James B. Clews House, 142–45 James F. D. Lanier II House, 86–93, 285 Jeanette Dwight Bliss House, 120–27, 285 Jennings, Mary Dows Brewster, 73, 76 Jennings, Oliver Gould, 17, 73, 76. See also Oliver Gould Jennings House Jerome, Leonard, 53 Johnson, Josephine W. See Taylor, Josephine Johnson Junior League of New York, 244 Kafka, Hugo, 288 Kahn, Otto H., 195, 283 Kendall, William M., 153 Kennedy, Joseph P., 233 Klein, Milton, 26 Kobler, A. J., 22 Koen, Terrance A., 285. See also Hoppin & Koen firm Kramer, Raymond and Mildred, 26, 273 L. Alavoine et Cie (Paris), 25 La Grange Terrace, Lafayette Place, 10–11 LaFarge, Christopher Grant, 284–85 LaFarge, John, 123–24, 284 Lamont, Francis Corliss, 225–26 Lamont, Thomas W., 225–26, 290. See also Thomas W. Lamont House Landmarks Preservation Commission, 64 landscape design, 286 Lanier, Harriet Bishop, 87, 90, 92 Lanier, Helen Cameron, 90 Lanier, James F. D., II, 87, 90. See also James F. D. Lanier II House Lanier, Reginald Bishop, 90

Morris, Lewis Gouverneur, 173, 176. See also Lewis Gouverneur Morris House Morris, Nathalie Lorillard Bailey, 173, 176 Morris Schinasi House, 98 Moses, Robert, 282–83 Murphy, Helen Martin. See Ziegler, William and Helen Murphy Murray Hill, 13, 87, 159, 219 Museum of Modern Art, 275

Lauder, Joseph and Estée, 261 Ledyard, Louis Cass, 40 Lehman, Adele Lewisohn, 261 Lehman, Arthur, 259, 261. See also Arthur Lehman House Lehr, Elizabeth and Harry, 179 Lenox Hill, 67 Lescaze, William, 25–26, 273, 275, 286. See also Howe & Lescaze Lewis Gouverneur Morris House, 172–77 Lewisohn, Adele. See Lehman, Adele Lewisohn Lewisohn, Adolph, 31–33. See also Heber R. Bishop House Lindeberg, Harrie T., 24 Livingston, Neta Nichols. See Clews, Neta Livingston Loew, Marcus, 24–25 Loew, William Goadby, 25, 27, 290 Long Island, 40, 87, 133, 145, 151, 190, 203, 237, 265, 284–85, 287–90 Lotos Club, 80 Louis Stern House, 46–51, 288 Louis XIV style, 74, 80, 82, 129–31 Louis XV style boiserie, 123, 160, 162, 243, 245 exteriors, 264–67 interiors, 32, 36, 74–75, 109, 112, 121, 166, 168, 233–34, 243, 245, 264–65 Louis XVI style boiserie, 90–91, 123, 126, 160 exteriors, 87–88, 109–10, 285 interiors, 47, 74, 76, 90–91, 109, 111, 133, 135, 144–45, 150–51, 160, 162, 231–33 Lowell, Guy, 129, 286 Lucy Drexel Dahlgren House, 178–83 Lutyens, Edwin, 176

Oakleigh Thorne House, 158–63, 280 oeil-de-boeuf windows, 87–88, 109–10 Olin, Mrs. Stephen H., 24 Oliver Gould Jennings House, 72–77, 284

MacNeill, Charles M., 195, 197. See also Charles M. MacNeill House MacNeill, Marion Irwin, 197 Madison Avenue, 87, 195, 231, 233 Marble Twins, 18–19, 21, 285 Marbury, Elizabeth, 24, 217, 289 Marshall, Evelyn. See Field, Evelyn Marshall Marshall Field III House, 236–41, 280 Marx, Samuel A., 259 McBean, Mrs. Peter, 176 McCann, Helena, 26–27 McKim, Charles F., 67, 153, 286–87. McKim, Mead & White, 17–18, 26, 39, 67, 101, 117, 153, 231, 280–81, 285–87, 290 McLean, Alice T., 211–12. See also Alice T. McLean House Mead, William R., 286–87. See also McKim, Mead & White Metropolitan Museum of Art, 32, 47, 57, 123, 133, 285 Meulbroek, Lisa K., 275 Meyer, Eugene, Jr., 117 Meyers, Vivian, 275 Millbank Anderson House, 20–22 Mitchell, Annie Olivia, 39 modern styles, 25–26, 32, 37, 72–74, 273, 275, 281.

See also International style Mooney, Edward, 11 Morgan, Anne, 24, 217, 219, 289. See also Anne Morgan House Morgan, J. Pierpont, 24, 87, 217, 225, 267, 269, 286, 289

painted ceilings, 21, 47–48, 123 Paley, William S., 24 Palladian features, 95, 197, 211 Park Avenue, 281 apartment buildings on, 26, 160, 267 great houses on, 17, 20–22, 115, 153, 159, 165, 173, 189, 203 pivotal role of, 22 Partos, Nicholas C., 133 Paterno, Anthony A., 145 Paulson, John, 186 Payne, Colonel Oliver H., 53, 101, 105 Payne, Mary Ann. See Clews, Mary Ann Payne Payne Whitney House, 100–107 Percy R. Pyne House, 152–57 Permanent Mission of Serbia, 111 Perth Amboy Terra-Cotta Company, 39 Petit Trianon, 109 picturesque style, 39, 225 Pinchot, Amos, 173 Plant, Morton F., 21–22 plasterwork, 70, 74, 122–23, 188, 190, 197–98, 226 Platt, Charles Adams, 231, 233 Plum, Bertha Rainey, 244 Pope, John Russell, 165–66, 237, 265 Powell, Samuel, 217 Pratt, Charles, 203 Pratt, Harold I., 22, 203, 206. See also Harold I. Pratt House Pratt, Harriet Barnes, 203, 206 Price, C. Matlack, 225, 280 Pulitzer, Joseph, 26

Nelson, George, 26 neoclassical style, 117–18, 120–21, 153–54, 174–76.

See also English styles: classical; French styles: Neoclassical New World Foundation, 176 New York City 18th-century houses of, 9–11 and the automobile, 137–38 commercial development in, 13, 21, 159 high real estate prices in, 143 middle-class residences of, 22, 24, 284 northward movement in, 21, 87, 129 and the railroad, 15, 22, 115, 153, 159 rivals Europe, 9, 13 and waterfront businesses, 13, 217 wealthy residents of, 9, 11, 13, 15, 21–22, 24–26 New York Times, The, 32, 76, 98, 129, 145, 166, 243, 259 Newport, Rhode Island, 87, 231, 282, 287–90 Norman, Edward and Dorothy, 26, 273, 275. See also Edward A. Norman House

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Pyne, Maud Howland, 153, 155 Pyne, Percy R., 153, 155. See also Percy R. Pyne House Queen Anne style, 32, 166, 176, 186, 226 R. Livingston Beeckman House, 108–13, 290 Random House, 233 Real Estate Record and Building Guide, 15 Redmond, Geraldyn, 20–21 Reginald De Koven House, 164–71 Reisinger, Hugo and Edmee Busch, 49 Renaissance style, 30–34, 61, 226–27, 286. See also English styles: Renaissance; French styles: Renaissance; Italian Renaissance style Reynolds, Jackson E., 24 Rice, Eleanor Elkins Widener, 160 Rice, Isaac L., 95, 98–99. See also Isaac L. Rice House Rice, Julia Barnet, 95, 98–99 Richardson, Henry Hobson, 284, 286 Ringling, John, 25 Riverside Drive, 16, 18, 95, 98 Robb, J. Hampton, 87 Roberts, Lucille, 26 Rockefeller, John D., 203, 283 Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 133 rococo style, 31–32, 35–36, 74, 80 Rogers, Grace Rainey and Henry W., 147 Romanesque style, 39, 54–56 Roosevelt, Theodore, 115, 117, 285 Roosevelt, W. Emlen, 76 Root, Clara Wales, 115 Root, Elihu, 17, 22, 115–17. See also Elihu Root House Rose & Stone firm, 61, 288 Rose, Charles F., 288. See also Rose & Stone firm Roth, Emery, 32, 49 Sanders, Morris B., 26 Schickel & Ditmars, 288 Schickel, J. William, 47, 288 Schieffelin, Maria Louisa Shepard, 79–80 Schieffelin, William J., 79–80. See also William J. Schieffelin House Schinasi, Morris, 18, 98. See also Morris Schinasi House Schinasi, Solomon, 98 Schmidt, Mott B., 22, 24, 217, 243, 288–89 Schuyler, Montgomery, 31 Schwab, Charles, 18 Seaman, John T., 17–18 Shaw, Richard Norman, 176 Shepard, Margaret Vanderbilt, 79–80 Shipman, Ellen, 24 Singer, Paul, 181 Sloane, Henry, 17, 73–74, 281 Smith, Mrs. E. M., 176 Soane, Sir John, 121 stained-glass windows, 64, 90, 123–24, 284 Staten Island, New York, 137 Stecker, Dorothy. See Norman, Edward and Dorothy Stern, Isaac, 47, 288 Stern, Lisette, 49 Stern, Louis, 47, 49, 288. See also Louis Stern House Sterner & Wolfe firm, 249 Sterner, Frederick J., 195, 197, 289

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Stewart, Alexander T., 13–14 Stewart, Anita Rhinelander, 176 Stillman, James J., 40 Stone, Howard C. See also Rose & Stone firm Straight, Willard, 203, 283 Straus, Herbert N., 25 Suarez, Diego, 211, 282. See also De Suarez & Hatton firm Suarez, Evelyn Field, 239 Sutton Place, 22–24, 217, 289 Swanke Hayden Connell Architects, 290 Taylor, Charlotte Fearing, 67 Taylor, H. A. C., 17, 67, 70. See also H. A. C. Taylor House Taylor, Josephine Johnson, 70 Thaw, Mrs. Benjamin, 111 Thomas, Eleanor N. See Beeckman, Eleanor Thomas Thomas W. Lamont House, 224–29, 290 Thorne, Helen Stafford, 159 Thorne, Oakleigh, 159–60. See also Oakleigh Thorne House Thuengen, Baron von, 49 Tiffany, Charles L., 39–40. See also Charles L. Tiffany House Tiffany, Harriet Olivia Young, 39 Tiffany, Louis Comfort, 21, 39–40, 42–43, 45, 56–57, 281 Tiffany, Louise Harriet, 39 Tinker, Loroque, 211 Trubee, Kate. See Davison, Kate Trubee Trumbauer, Horace, 25, 143, 145, 289 Trupin, Barry, 181 Tucker, Carll, 117 Tuthill, William B., 18 United Nations secretary general, 219 Upper East Side. See also Lenox Hill; Park Avenue conservative nature of, 26 great houses on, 39, 53, 61, 67, 73, 79, 121, 143, 179, 185, 195, 203, 225, 237, 243, 259, 265 modern house on, 273 Upper West Side, 18, 95, 129, 284. See also Riverside Drive Vanderbilt, Alva, 15, 17, 21, 25 Vanderbilt, Anne Harriman, 22–24, 217. See also Anne Harriman Vanderbilt House; Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt Vanderbilt, Commodore Cornelius, 15, 111 Vanderbilt, Cornelius, II, 282 Vanderbilt, Frederick W., 160 Vanderbilt, George W., 21, 285 Vanderbilt, Grace Wilson, 21–22 Vanderbilt, Mrs. William K., 289 Vanderbilt row, 13, 15 Vanderbilt, Virginia Graham Fair, 25, 265, 267. See also Virginia Graham Fair Vanderbilt House Vanderbilt, William Henry, 15, 21–22 Vanderbilt, William K., 15, 17, 21, 24–25, 47, 61, 217, 285 Vanderbilt, William K., Jr., 265, 289 Victorian architecture, 15, 31, 179. See also specific styles Villa Julia. See Isaac L. Rice House Villard, Henry, 231, 233 Virginia Graham Fair Vanderbilt House, 264–71 Visiting Nurse Service of New York, 226

Vitruvian waves, 80, 100, 103 Wagner, Robert F., 64 Wales, Clara Francis. See Root, Clara Wales Walker & Gillette firm, 189, 225, 290 Walker, Alexander S., 290. See also Walker & Gillette firm wall coverings fabric, 74 faux-marble, 218–19 glass mosaic, 56 leather, 105–06 scenic panels, 233–34, 250, 252 silk, 32, 56, 58, 90, 109, 112, 116, 118, 133, 135, 138–39, 160, 186 stucco, 212, 214 tapestries, 32, 64, 109, 113, 133, 233, 261 tiles, 40, 212, 250 wallpaper, 155, 197, 219, 222, 244 Warburg, Paul, 189 Warren & Wetmore firm, 109, 290 Warren, Whitney, 290. See also Warren & Wetmore firm Washington Square, 11, 13 Watson, Gladys. See Ziegler, Gladys Watson Watson, James, 11 Webb, W. Seward, Jr., 24 Wetmore, Charles D., 290. See also Warren & Wetmore firm Wharton, Edith, 13, 179, 282, 285 White, Henry and Emily Vanderbilt Sloane, 111 White, Stanford, 39, 67, 70, 101, 103, 153, 281, 286–87. See also McKim, Mead & White Whitney, Flora Payne, 101 Whitney, Helen Hay, 101, 105, 107 Whitney, John Hay, 105 Whitney, Payne, 17, 101, 103, 105. See also Payne Whitney House Whitney, William Collins, 115 William Fahnestock House, 230–35 William J. Schieffelin House, 78–85, 285 William Schickel & Company, 288 William Vincent Astor House, 242–47 William Woodward House, 184–87, 283 William Ziegler Jr. House, 248–57, 289 Woodward, Elsie Cryder, 185–86 Woodward, James T., 185 Woodward, William, 185–86. See also William Woodward House World War I, 22, 143, 189, 217, 225, 231, 237 World War II, 25–26, 32, 80, 212, 233 Wyeth & King firm, 206 Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim, 98 Yeshiva Ketana, 98 Ziegler, Gladys Watson, 249 Ziegler, William and Helen Murphy, 249–50. See also William Ziegler Jr. House