Discover New York with Henry Hope Reed, : a series of well-mapped walking tours, reprinted from the pages of the New York Herald Tribune . ses, but didnot live there. In fact, it was an architect closelyassociated with her, Mott B. Schmidt, who de-signed a number of the houses—which explains, inpart, their stylistic unity. lo. 1 Sutton Place was Mrs. Vanderbilts. It isGeorgian Colonial, with Flemish bond brick workand limestone trim. In the light of the standard ofsimplicity fashionable today, the house appearslarge. But for Mrs. Vanderbilt, it represented atremendous change from 660 Fif
Discover New York with Henry Hope Reed, : a series of well-mapped walking tours, reprinted from the pages of the New York Herald Tribune . ses, but didnot live there. In fact, it was an architect closelyassociated with her, Mott B. Schmidt, who de-signed a number of the houses—which explains, inpart, their stylistic unity. lo. 1 Sutton Place was Mrs. Vanderbilts. It isGeorgian Colonial, with Flemish bond brick workand limestone trim. In the light of the standard ofsimplicity fashionable today, the house appearslarge. But for Mrs. Vanderbilt, it represented atremendous change from 660 Fifth Avenue, thelimestone palace which had astonished the city byboth its size and its cost in the 1880s. Mott was the architect, and Elsie de Wolfe didthe interior. This pair also did No. 3, Miss Mor-gans; No. 14, Miss Marburys; No. 17, Olcotts. No. 11 is distinguished bya large scallop shell and pair of urns over thedoor. No. 15 breaks away from the classical with aGothic ogival molding over the entrance, but itconforms to the others in height and the corner into Sutton Square, we QUEENSBORO BRIDGE. START #2 SUTTON PL
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