Vanderbilt Mansions, New York
- Title:
- Vanderbilt Mansions, New York
- Collection:
- Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs Collection
- Creator:
- Snook, John Butler (American architect, 1815-1901)
Atwood, Charles B. (American architect, 1848-1895)
- Creation Date:
- 1881-1883 (building)
ca. 1883-ca. 1895 (photograph)
- Location:
- New York, New York, United States
- Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 510
- Accession Number:
- 15/5/3090.00510
- Collection Number:
- 15-5-3090
- File Name:
- 00510.jpg
- Materials/Techniques:
- albumen prints
- Subject:
- cityscapes (representations)
cityscapes (representations)
streetscapes
Cobblestone pavements
mansions
balconies
wrought iron (iron alloy)
William H. Vanderbilt Mansions, Manhattan, New York
photographs - Measurement:
- 19.05 x 24.13 (centimeters)
- Description:
- The mansions pictured here once stood on the west side of Fifth Avenue between 51st and 52nd streets. The property was purchased by William H. Vanderbilt in 1879, and he commissioned the architects John B. Snook and Charles Atwood to design twin houses connected by a glass atrium and entrance vestibule. The Herter Brothers decorated the houses extravagantly. W.H. Vanderbilt and his wife lived in the southern house, while their two daughters and sons-in-law occupied the other. The mansion depicted on the right side of the image was also commissioned by W. H. Vanderbilt, and desi gned by Richard Morris Hunt in 1881. It was demolished in 1926.
- Source:
- Data from: A.D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library
http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/adw/albumen.htm - Cite As:
- Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photograph Collection, #15-5-3090. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Andrew Dickson White architectural photograph collection
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in this collection are in the public domain and are believed to have no known U.S. copyright or other restrictions. The Library does not charge for permission to use these materials and does not grant or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute them. However, as a good scholarly practice we recommend that all patrons cite the Library as the source of the reproduction. For a more detailed explanation please read the Library Guidelines for Using Public Domain Text, Images, Audio, and Video Reproduced from Cornell University Library Collections at http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright.