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
New York, New York
1924
Schmidt's largest apartment house stands proudly among upper Park Avenue's distinguished palaces, the gravity of its minimally articulated facades contrasting with richer and more opulent buildings nearby. It owes much to the great courtyard/palazzo-type apartment blocks of the pre-war years, especially Charles Platt's Astor Court of 1916 and McKim, Mead & White's 998 Fifth Avenue of 1910-11, as well as to the work of J. E. R. Carpenter. The building was built in a modified U-plan, around existing rowhouses, and contains 5 or 6 apartments per floor. Outside, Schmidt used Italian classical sources in his modest way. The building's finest features are its grand, Vignola-inspired entrance, its vaulted vestibules, and the surprisingly intimate garden court at the rear.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
New York Times / Streetscapes: A Grand Boulevard or Just Monotony Lane?