Schmidt's remodeling of this large brownstone on the Upper East Side is one of the earliest of his buildings to be published.
In 1920, the apartment houses at 157 and 159 were combined as a co-op, and the facade altered by Mott Schmidt in the new style of plain tinted stucco.
Mott B. Schmidt and interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe collaborated on the renovation of Elizabeth Marbury’s house at No. 13 Sutton Place.
Mott B. Schmidt designed a modern entrance for Elizabeth Arden framed in polished black stone.
Schmidt began working for the Rockefellers in 1937, executing the lavish city apartment of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., on Park Avenue.