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
Anne Morgan Townhouse
New York, New York
1921
New York, New York
1921
Schmidt's design for the Morgan house is based upon the facade of the Samuel Powell house in Philadelphia (1765), a building which would be canonized by the inclusion of its ballroom in the Metropolitan Museum's new American Wing in 1924. Here, in his first major commission, the architect achieved the kind of sophistication and understatement that were to become hallmarks of his style. The elegant, carved doorways inspired by American colonial precedents, careful window details and brickwork, and subtle proportional balance in both garden and street facades mark this house as one of the finest of its era in New York.
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