Henry Janeway Hardenbergh
The Dakota Building, so far uptown when it was built that it was said it might as well be in the
Dakota Territory
Henry Janeway Hardenbergh (February 6, 1847 - March 18, 1918) was an American architect, best known for his hotels and apartment buildings.
Life and career
Hardenbergh was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey and apprenticed from 1865 to 1870 in an architecture firm in New York. In 1871, he set up his own practice. He obtained his first contracts – for Rutgers College in New Brunswick, New Jersey – through family connections: his great-great grandfather, Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, had been the first president of Rutgers College from 1785 to 1790, when it was still called "Queen's College".
He then got the contract to design the Vancorlear apartment building on West 55th Street in New York in 1879. The following year he was commissioned by Edward S. Clark, then head of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, to build a housing development. As part of this work, he designed the pioneering Dakota Apartments in Central Park West, novel in its location, very far north of the center of the city.
Subsequently, Hardenbergh received commissions to build the Waldorf (1893) and the adjoining Astoria (1897) hotels for William Waldorf Astor and Mrs. Astor, respectively. The two competing hotels were later joined together as the Waldorf-Astoria, which as demolished in 1929 for the construction of the Empire State Building.
Hardenbergh lived for some time in Bernardsville, New Jersey[1] and died in 1918 in New York City. He is buried in Woodland Cemetery, in Stamford, Connecticut.
Buildings
- Sophia Astley Kirkpatrick Memorial Chapel – Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, with windows by Louis Comfort Tiffany, 1873 [2]
- Kingfisher Tower – near Cooperstown, New York, 1876
- Row houses – 101 and 103 West 73rd Street, Manhattan, New York City, 1879-1880[3]
- The Dakota Apartments – Manhattan, New York City, 1880-84, a NYC landmark [4]
- Western Union Telegraph Building – 186 Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street, Manhattan, New York City, 1882-84[5]
- Row houses at 15A-19 and 41-65 West 73rd Street – Manhattan, New York City, 1882-1885[3]
- Hotel Albert – now the Albert Apartments, Manhattan, New York City, 1883[3]
- 1845 Broadway – Manhattan, New York City, 1883-1884[6]
- Schermerhorn Building – 376-380 Lafayette Street, Manhattan, New York City, 1888
- Apartment building and row houses – 121 East 89th Street (apartment building) and 1340,42,44,46,48 and 50 Lexington Avenue (row houses), 1888-89, comprising the Hardenbergh/Rhinelander Historic District [4]
- American Fine Arts Building – home of the Art Students League of New York, Manhattan, New York City, 1891-92, a NYC landmark [4]
- William Murray Houses – 13-15 West 54th Street, Manhattan, New York City, 1897, a NYC landmark [4]
- Hotel Martinique – Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, 1897-1900, enlarged: 1907-11,[3] a NYC landmark [4]
- All Angels' Church – Manhattan, New York City, 1904
- Sunnyside Island – 1000 Islands, 1902
- Whitehall Building – Manhattan, New York City, 1902-04, a NYC landmark [4]
- Plaza Hotel – Manhattan, New York City, 1905-07,[7] a NYC landmark [4]
- Trinity Episcopal Church – York Harbor, Maine, 1908
- Waldorf Hotel – Manhattan, New York City, 1893, demolished 1929
- Astoria Hotel – Manhattan, New York City, 1897, demolished 1929
- Willard Hotel – Washington, D.C., 1901
- The Raleigh Hotel – Washington D.C., 1911, demolished 1965
- Copley Plaza Hotel – Boston, Massachusetts, 1912
- Palmer Stadium – Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1914[8]
- Consolidated Edison Company Building – Manhattan, New York City, 1915 – building only, not the tower
References
- Notes
- ^ Gray, Christopher. "Streetscapes/Henry Janeway Hardenbergh; An Architect Who Left an Indelible Imprint", The New York Times, May 7, 2000. Accessed March 21, 2011. "He alternated living in New York and New Jersey, at first at 121 West 73rd Street, in Jersey City and Bernardsville, and in a big town house of his own design at 12 East 56th Street."
- ^ http://www.kirkpatrickchapel.rutgers.edu
- ^ a b c d White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot (2000). AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.). New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 0812931076.
- ^ a b c d e f g New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Guide to New York City Landmarks (4th ed.) New York:Wiley, 2009. ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1
- ^ http://www.forgotten-ny.com/ADS/manhattanads/moremahnattan.html
- ^ "1845 Broadway" on the Hardenbergh database
- ^ "Lord and Taylor and the Plaza Hotel"
- ^ "Palmer Stadium"
External links
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Hardenberg, Henry |
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Architect |
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February 6, 1847 |
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March 18, 1918 |
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