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Show Albert Joseph Bodker," Architectural Record 33 (May 1913): 381-420. For another Modern Renaissance house by Bodker see "Operations on the Upper East Side," Real Estate Record and Guide 87 (April 15, 1911): 682-83; and "Residence of Robert A. Chesebrough, 870 Madison Ave., New York, AJ. Bodker, Architect," Architectural Year Book 1 (1912): 265-67. 255. Price, "Recent Work of Bodker": 417. 256. Schuyler, "New New York Houses, East Side ": 454. Also see "The Rebuilding of Park Avenue," Real Estate Record and Guide 84 (December 4, 1909): 991-93; and Upper East Side Historic District, 1080. 257. Schuyler, "New New York Houses, East Side": 454. 258. Schuyler, "New New York Houses, East Side": 454. 259. "Rebuilding of Park Avenue," Real Estate Record and Guide: 991. 260. "Apartments, 925 Park Ave., New York, Delano &. Aldrich, Archi· tects," Architecture 19 (January 1909): 12, plate IX; "Apartment Building, 925 Park Avenue, New York City, Delano & Aldrich, Architects," Archi· tectural Review 6 (July 1909): plates; and "Cooperative Apartments, 925 Park Ave., New York, Messrs. Delano & Aldrich, Architects," American Architect and Building News 96 (December 22, 1909): plates. 261. "The Duplex Apartment House, A Comparison of the Newest Buildings of this Type," Architectural Record 29 (April 1911): 327-34; and "563 Park Avenue, New York, Walter B. Chambers, Architect," Architect 6 (April 1912): plate. . 262. In 1908 Taylor had completed 471 and 863 Park Avenue. Charles W. Buckham designed 471. See Richard Morton, "An Essay on Duplex Apartments In General and Those at 471 Park Avenue in Particular," Apartment Houses of the Metropolis (New York: Hesselgren, 1908), 5-6; and Charles W. Buckham, "Duplex Co·Operative Apartment Houses," Ameri· can Architect and Building News 96 (December 22, 1909): 266-67. Pollard & Steinam, who also designed three of Taylor's cooperative studio buildings on West Sixty·seventh Street, were the architects for 863 Park Avenue. See Pease & Elliman, Pease & Elliman's Catalog of East Side New York Apartment Plans (New York: 1925), 173. Taylor also built 823 (Schwartz & Gross), 925 (Delano & Aldrich), and 969 (Tickery & Wells) Park Avenue. See Pease & Elliman, Catalog of Apartment Plans, 167, 180-81, 190. 263. "Apartments, Park Ave. and 79th St., New York, Warren & Wetmore and Robt. T . Lyons, Architects," Architecture 28 (July 1913): 152-53; and Tauranac, Essential New York, 132-34. 264. "Apt. H, No. 640 Park Avenue, New York,J.E.R. Carpenter, Archi· tect," American Architect·Architectural Review 121 (March 29,1922): 264, plate; and Andrew Alpern, Apartments for the Affluent (New York: McGraw·Hill, 1975),84-85. 265. "Apartment House. 960 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y., D. Everett Waid and J.E.R. Carpenter, Associated Architects," Brickbuilder 25 (November 1916): plate 175; and Alpern, Apartments for the Affluent, 86-87. Also see Wilfred W . Beach, "Some Recent New York Apartment Houses From the Work of J.E.R. Carpenter, Architect," Architectural Forum 30 (May 1919): 127-36. 266. Beach, "Recent Apartment Houses from Carpenter": 131-33; and "Apartments. Fifth Avenue and 72nd St., New York, J.E.R. Carpenter, Architect," Architecture 35 (April 1917): 71, plate LXVIII. 267. "270 Park Avenue, The Largest of Apartment Houses," Architec· ture 37 (May 1918): 143, plates. . 268. "East Side and West Side," Real Estate Record and Guide 20 (October 13, 1877): 785-86. Also see "Fashion as an Element of Value," Real Estate Record and Guide 18 (October 21. 1876): 779-80; " Capabilities of the West Side, " Real Estate Record and Guide 21 (January 12, 1878): 23-24; "The Fate of the West Side." Real Estate Record and Guide 24 (December 13, 1874): 1004; and "The East Side and the West Side," Real Estate Record and Guide 27 (May 14, 1881): 489-90. 269. Edward Clark, " The City of the Future." Real Estate Record and Guide 24 (December 27, 1879): 1056. Also see Slawson & Hobbs, "The Upper West Side," letter of December 21, 1906 to the editor, Real Estat Record and Guide 79 (January 26, 1907): 157-58. 270. "City Cottages," Real Estate Record and Guide 17 (December 2 1876): 960-61. The article noted that "the majority of our readers have ha occasion to make the acquaintance of West Philadelphia during the past year" while visiting the Centennial Celebration. It was also recognized that this suburban ambience would involve a rejection of the uniform architectural style of the brownstone era. The Real Estate Record and Guide predicted in 1876 that "a taste will be developed for roomy and spacious houses. detached and isolated. commanding unobstructed views and distinguished by peculiar architectural types and forms." See "City Chateaux or Villas." Real Estate Record and Guide 18 (December 23.1876): 942. Also see "The West Side Association," Real Estate Record and Guide 24 (December 20. 1879): 1029-30. 271. Montgomery Schuyler, "The Small City House in New York," Architectural Record 8 (April-June 1899): 357-88. 272. "Our West Side," Real Estate Record and Guide 24 (December 27, 1879): 1055. 273. Sarah Bradford Landau, "The Row Houses of New' York's West Side," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 34 (March 1975): 19-36. Before 1880, transportation was limited to the omnibus line on the Boulevard and, after 1875, the Eighth Avenue Railroad. "Capabilities of the West Side," Real Estate Record and Guide: 23. 274. "West Side Buildings," Building 6 (March 26, 1887): 1; "The Architecture of the West Side," Real Estate Record and Guide 40 (September 10, 1887): 1150. 275. Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (New York: D. Appleton, 1934),44-45. 276. "West of the Park," Real Estate Record and Guide 36 (November 7, 1865): 1215-16. Also see "The Improvement on the West Side," Real Estate Record and Guide 37 (May 8, 1886): 597-98. 277. Schuyler, "The New New York House": 84. 278. In 1879 the Real Estate Record and Guide observed a "growing spirit of veneration for our ancestors and a desire to cultivate the antique in such mild forms as it is possible in a new country to present it." "New and Old Houses," Real Estate Record and Guide 23 (March 1, 1879): 166. 279. Schuyler, "Small City House": 376. 280. Schuyler, "Small City House": 375. 281. Landau, "Row Houses": 20; and "Houses and Grounds," Real Estate Record and Guide 24 (December 13, 1879): 1004. Calvert Vaux objected to the standard lot as "destructive of any opportunity to afford that display which our people actually like." He also advocated poly· chromy and restrictive convenants in future house construction. See "The Size of Building Lots," Real Estate Record and Guide 24 (December 6, 1879): 979. 282. Robert Stewart, "The Hotels of New York," Munsey's 22 (November 1899): 281-95. 283. "East Side Architecture-Fifth Avenue," Real Estate Record and Guide 45 (May 3, 1890): 640-41. 284. Schuyler, "Small City House": 373. 285. The speculator·built rows of the 1880s. typified by W.j. Merritt's two houses on West Seventy·fifth Street between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive and W.E.D. Stokes's row of houses on West End Avenue between Seventy·fourth and Seventy·fifth streets, reflect Schuyler's observation that "what the public now demanded was variety." Each was a clear expression of the Cosmopolitan spirit with its emphasis on individ· uality within the context of the group. "West of the Park," Real Estate Record and Guide: 1215; "Two Houses, Cor. 75th Street West of Boule· vard, New York City, W.J. Merritt, Arch't," Building 5 (November 13, 1886): plate; "The West Side Illustrated," Real Estate Record and Guide 38 (November 20, 1885): 1418; and Schuyler. " Small City House": 376. 286. "Our West Side," Real Estate Record and Guide: 1055. 287. Montgomery Schuyler, " The Romanesque Revival in New York," Architectural Record 1 (October-December 1891): 151-98. Also see "River· side Drive," Real Estate Record and Guide 35 (April 25, 1885): 461 ; "The Riverside Drive and Future City Construction," Building 7 (August 27, 1887): 65; and "Around One Hundred and Fourth Street , West," Real Estate Record and Guide 47 (January 17, 1891): 86. Also note Gilbert & Thompson's design for a unique mansion on Broadway; "New Residence and Stable, West Boulevard, New York City," American Architect and Building News 15 (May 10, 1884): plate. 288. "Residence of Mr. Cyrus Clark," Building 11 (Supplement, November 23, 1889): plate. A number of estates were located in the area before Riverside Drive was constructed . See "Old Mansions Once on Bloomingdale's Riverside," Real Estate Record and Guide 85 (January 22, 1910): 159. General Egbert Viele, the chief engineer of Central Park, built a lateV' . mans ' . ersid 'veand' i hth hich en attn d to Leopo tdlitz. tele 's role t e West En ' de elopment, see Landau, "Row Houses": 20. 289. "Residence of Mr. John Matthews, Riverside Drive and Ninetieth Street," American Architectand Building News 35 (January 2,1892): plate; "Residence of Mr.John Matthews, Riverside Drive and Ninetieth St., New York," Architectural Record 1 (April-June 1892): 478; "Residence of Mr. John Matthews. Riverside Drive, New York," Architecture and Building 18 (April 22, 1893): plate; and "Residence ofjohn Matthews, Riverside Drive, New York-Side View," A rchitecture and Building 18 (May 6, 1893): pia 90. Bayn, President of he Seaboard National Ban , ted an er . a by Fr n the rt orner Drive and lO8th Stree. c uylerobserved in 1891 that t e Drive's suburban development "is specially fortunate since among the villas already erected, which are for the most part decorous and dull, with one or two exceptions which are highly indecorous and even duller. it has given opportunity to Mr. Free· man to put up two villas, on the opposite corners of 108th Street, which are not <lnly by far the most artistic examples of the Richardsonian Roman· esque in our domestic architecture. but are among the most artistic of our 479 |
