New York City
- Featured Architecture:
- ABOUT MOTT SCHMIDT
- Introduction
- Beginnings and Sutton Place
- Townhouses and Apartments
- Country Houses
- Late Works
- Townhouses
- Sutton Place
- Anne Morgan Townhouse
- Mrs W.K. Vanderbilt Townhouse
- Guy Fairfax Cary Townhouse
- Miss Emily Trevor Townhouse
- Vincent Astor Townhouse
- Walter E. Hope Townhouse
- Apartment Houses
- 53 East 66th Street
- 1088 Park Avenue
- 19 East 72nd Street
- Country Houses
- Mr & Mrs Clarence Dillon Summer House
- Pook's Hill: Mr & Mrs Mott B. Schmidt Country House
- Marienruh: Mrs Serge Obolensky Country House
- Mr & Mrs Bernard Peyton Country House
- C. Douglas Dillon Country House
- Hudson Pines: Mrs David M. Milton Abby Rockefeller Country House
- Hillcrest: Mrs Martha Baird Rockefeller Country House
- Municipal Buildings
- Municipal Building and Post Office, Mount Kisco
- Susan B. Wagner Wing, Gracie Mansion
- Other Buildings
- French City Village Houses
- Selected Commissions for the Rockefeller Family
Brooklyn, New York
Townhouse
1913
In these early townhouses, Schmidt showed a sensitivity to historical details and building types that would become the hallmark of his architecture.
New York, New York
Other Building
1915
A tiny decorating shop for Miss Alice Swift was among Schmidt's first projects.
New York, New York
Alteration
1917
Schmidt's remodeling of this large brownstone on the Upper East Side is one of the earliest of his buildings to be published.
New York, New York
Townhouse
1920
The houses of Sutton Place represent the first milestone in Mott Schmidt's career.
New York, New York
Alteration
1920
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.
New York, New York
Townhouse
1921
Mott Schmidt's first major commission achieves the kind of sophistication and understatement that became hallmarks of his style.
New York, New York
Townhouse
1921
The more austere Anne Vanderbilt townhouse occupies the 57th Street corner of Sutton Place.
New York, New York
Alteration
1921
Mott B. Schmidt and interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe collaborated on the renovation of Elizabeth Marbury’s house at No. 13 Sutton Place.
Brooklyn, New York
Townhouse
1922
The Emily Dalzell Townhouse was one of the last great private residences built in the Park Slope district of Brooklyn.
New York, New York
Apartment House
1923
This mid-block building appropriates the facade organization of a Georgian row at a greatly inflated scale, and accommodates four large apartments per floor.
New York, New York
Townhouse
1923
This large house shows Schmidt's gift for gracious and functional planning.
New York, New York
Apartment House
1924
Schmidt's largest apartment house stands proudly among upper Park Avenue's distinguished palaces.
New York, New York
Townhouse
1924
This understated building was characterized by four stories of red brick, highlighted only by two thin stone bandcourses and a pedimented centered doorway.
New York, New York
Townhouse
1926
This tiny jewel of a townhouse is an unusual variation on Schmidt's planning formula.
New York, New York
Townhouse
1926
Another Adam-inspired townhouse, the Astor house is considered by many to be Schmidt's best New York building.
New York, New York
Townhouse
1928
This elegant limestone-fronted townhouse is probably the best of Schmidt's later urban residences.
New York, New York
Alteration
1929
Mott B. Schmidt designed a modern entrance for Elizabeth Arden framed in polished black stone.
Richmond Hill, New York
Municipal Building
1929
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Apartment House
1937
Schmidt's final New York apartment house, designed in collaboration with Rosario Candela, is a rare departure from the traditional classical vocabulary.
New York, New York
Alteration
1937
Schmidt began working for the Rockefellers in 1937, executing the lavish city apartment of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., on Park Avenue.
New York, New York
Municipal Building
1966
The Susan B. Wagner Wing, Schmidt's last major commission, remains his best-known work and is a fitting culmination to a long career.
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