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- 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
157 East 75th Street
New York, New York
1920
New York, New York
1920
In 1920 the architect Mott Schmidt, who was also working on a makeover of fashionable Sutton Place, combined the apartment houses at 157 and 159 as a co-op, shaving off all the brownstone and leaving plain tinted stucco in its place. This was the new style for altered buildings – really an antistyle – which Schmidt was also using in houses for Elsie de Wolfe and others on Sutton Place.
Text courtesy of New York Times / Streetscapes
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New York Times / Streetscapes: Picturesque Block Unlike the Usual Rowhouse Street