Henry Janeway Hardenbergh
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| Born | February 6, 1847 |
| Died | March 13, 1918 (aged 71)[1] Manhattan, New York City, New York |
| Occupation | Architect |
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Henry Janeway Hardenbergh FAIA (February 6, 1847 – March 13, 1918) was an American architect, best known for his hotels and apartment buildings, and as a "master of a new building form — the skyscraper."[2] He worked three times with Edward Clark, the wealthy owner of the Singer Sewing Machine Company and real estate developer: The Singer company's first tower in New York City, The Dakota Apartments, and its precursor, the Van Corlear.[3] He is best known for building apartment dwellings and luxury hotels.[4]
Life and career
Hardenbergh was born in
He obtained his first contracts for three buildings at Rutgers College in New Brunswick, New Jersey—the expansion of Alexander Johnston Hall (1871), designing and building Geology Hall (1872) and the Kirkpatrick Chapel (1873)—through family connections. Hardenbergh's great-great grandfather, the Reverend 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" on West
Subsequently, Hardenbergh received commissions to build the
Hardenbergh lived for some time in Bernardsville, New Jersey[7] where he designed the building for the school house built with funds donated by Frederic P. Olcott.[2] The school house is in Hardenberghs architectural style and is a landmark in the town.[8] Hardenbergh died at his home in Manhattan, New York City on March 13, 1918.[1] He is buried in Woodland Cemetery, in Stamford, Connecticut.
Organizations
Hardenbergh was elected to the American Institute of Architects in 1867, and was made a Fellow in 1877. He was president of the Architectural League of New York from 1901 to 1902, and was an associate of the National Academy of Design. Hardenbergh was one of the founders of the American Fine Arts Society as well as the Municipal Art Society.[5] He was also a member of the Sculpture Society and the Century, Riding, Grolier and Church Clubs.[1]
Buildings
- 1870: Addition to the Rutgers Preparatory School building (now Alexander Johnston Hall) in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
- 1871–1872: library, chapelGeology Hall, at Rutgers College(now university), in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
- 1873: Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, with windows by Louis Comfort Tiffany (renovated 1916)[9]
- 1873: Suydam Hall at New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Brunswick, New Jersey (razed 1966)
- 1876: Kingfisher Tower near Cooperstown, New York
- 1878: Windsor Hotel in Montreal[1] (demolished except for North Annex, 1975
- 1879: The Vancolear, West 55th Street and Seventh Avenue, the city's first apartment hotel[1]
- 1879: Loch Ada, 590 Proctor Road, Glen Spey, Lumberland, Sullivan County, New York(razed 1996)
- 1879–1880: two row houses at 101 and 103 West 73rd Street in Manhattan, New York City [10]
- 1880–1884: NYC landmark)[11]
- 1882–1884: Western Union Telegraph Building, located at 186 Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street in Manhattan, New York City[12]
- 1882–1885: Several Row houses at 15A-19 and 41-65 West 73rd Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side, New York City[10]
- 1883: Hotel Albert (now the Albert Apartments) in Manhattan, New York City[10]
- 1883-84: 1845 Broadway in Manhattan, New York City[13]
- 1886–1887: 337 & 339 East 87th Street, Manhattan, New York City[14]
- 1888: Schermerhorn Building at 376-380 Lafayette Street in Manhattan, New York City
- 1888–1889: Apartment building at 121 East 89th Street part of the Hardenbergh/Rhinelander Historic District [11]
- 1888–1889: Row houses at 1340, 1342, 1344, 1346, 1348 and 1350 Lexington Avenue part of the Hardenbergh/Rhinelander Historic District [11]
- 1891–1892: NYC landmark)[11]
- 1893: Waldorf Hotellocated at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City (demolished 1929 to build Empire State Building)
- 1893: Hotel Manhattan located on the northwest corner of Madison Avenue and 42nd Street in New York City, New York.
- 1895: Wolfe Building, at William Street and Maiden Lane, New York City (demolished in 1974)
- 1897: Astoria Hotellocated at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City (demolished 1929 to build Empire State Building)
- 1897: NYC landmark)[11]
- 1897–1900: NYC landmark [11]
- 1900–1901: NYC landmark [11]
- 1901: Willard Hotelin Washington, D.C.
- 1902: Sunnyside Island, in the 1000 Islands, New York
- 1902–1904: NYC landmark)[11]
- 1903: Preston B. Moss House, 914 Division St., Billings, Montana
- 1904: All Angels' Church – Manhattan, New York City
- 1904: Van Norden Trust Company Building, 751 5th Ave., New York City, demolished.[15]
- 1905–1907: NYC landmark [11]
- 1906: St. John's Episcopal Church in Palmerton, Pennsylvania, known as "The Beautiful Stone Church at the Top of the Park."
- 1908: Trinity Episcopal Church in York Harbor, Maine
- 1910: Palmer Physical Laboratory, at Princeton University[17]
- 1911: The Raleigh Hotel at 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington D.C. (demolished 1965)
- 1912: Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts
- 1912: Stamford Trust Company Building, 300 Main St., Stamford, Connecticut[18]
- 1914: Palmer Stadium, the football stadium and track arena at Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey (demolished 1998)[19]
- 1915: Consolidated Edison Company Buildingin Manhattan, New York City (the building only, not the tower)
- 1917–1918: New Jersey Zinc Company Headquarters, Maiden Lane, Manhattan, New York City.
Gallery
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TheFifth Avenue and 34th Street. Drawing by Joseph Pennell, c. 1904-08. -
The Dakota Building, so far uptown when it was built that it was said it might as well be in the Dakota Territory -
Schermerhorn Building (1888) -
Western Union Telegraph Building (1882–84) -
The Plaza Hotel (1905–07) -
See also
References
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g Staff. (March 14, 1918) "H.J. Hardenbergh, Architect, Is Dead" The New York Times
- ^ ISBN 0-7524-0899-2.)
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
- ^ "» Hardenbergh the Hotel Master". www.landmarkwest.org. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
- ^ a b Pierson, Majorie (ed.) et al. "Ladies' Mile Historic District Designation Report v.2" Archived February 22, 2017, at the Wayback Machine New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (May 2, 1989)
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
- ^ 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."
- ^ "Administrative Offices". somersethills.ss8.sharpschool.com. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
- ^ Home | Kirkpatrick Chapel. Kirkpatrickchapel.rutgers.edu. Retrieved on July 26, 2013.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8129-3107-5.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1.
- Forgotten New York(October 16, 2013)
- ^ "1845 Broadway" Archived October 13, 2019, at the Wayback Machine on the Hardenbergh database
- ^ "Great Architects of New York: Henry J. Hardenbergh". Archived from the original on March 25, 2015. Retrieved January 30, 2015.
- ^ Carpentry and Building Sept. 1903: 228.
- ^ "Lord and Taylor and the Plaza Hotel"
- PMID 17829831.
- ^ "Downtown Stamford Historic District" National Register of Historic Places / Inventory-Nomination Form
- ^ ""Palmer Stadium"". Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved July 31, 2006.
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