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
1920
The houses of Sutton Place represent the first
milestone in Mott Schmidt's career. In 1920 he was retained by Elizabeth
Marbury, the literary and theatrical agent, to remodel a 19th
century rowhouse at No. 13. Named for Effingham B. Sutton, who tried to develop
the block in 1875, the riverside houses had little of the elegance then that we
associate with the name today. Marbury persuaded several of her influential
friends - notably Anne Vanderbilt and Anne Morgan-to buy other parcels on the
block, thereby establishing a "society" enclave on the river's edge,
away from Fifth Avenue. Once Schmidt's work was exhibited at the Architectural
League (in 1921) and published, his career was launched.
The neighborhood is still known as a celebrity block, with the Secretary
General of the United Nations residing in No. 3 (the former Morgan house), and
the architect I. M. Pei in No. 11.