Country Houses
- 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
Pocantico, New York
1938
In a letter written in 1970, David Rockefeller
thanked Mott Schmidt for twenty five years of service to the Rockefeller
family, aptly describing the special qualities of Schmidt's architecture:
"I know of no one in the country who can design Georgian houses with the
style, warmth and quality that you do. Our house could have been there for a
couple of centuries rather than a few decades. It is both elegant and friendly,
and it fits perfectly into the landscape. I am happy to have this opportunity
to tell you once again how much we have enjoyed living in it during the past
quarter century." These remarks are typical of the satisfaction expressed
by Schmidt's clients.
Mr. Rockefeller was speaking of Hudson Pines, the house Schmidt designed
in 1938 for his sister, Abby, and subsequently altered for his own family. Hudson Pines remains one of his finest country houses.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
New York Times / Streetscapes: The Rockefeller City House; Pied-A-Terre Off Fifth for a Parsimonious Billionaire