Henry Hardenbergh

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 of a Dutch family, and attended the Hasbrouck Institute in Jersey City. He apprenticed in New York from 1865 to 1870 under Detlef Lienau, and, in 1870, opened his own practice there.^[1]

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 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 was demolished in 1929 for the construction of the Empire State Building.

Hardenbergh lived for some time in Bernardsville, New Jersey^[2] and died in 1918 in New York City. He is buried in Woodland Cemetery, in Stamford, Connecticut.

Organizations

Hardenbergh was elected to the American Institute of Architects in 1861, and was made a Fellow in 1877. He was president of the Architectural League of New York from 1901–02, 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.^[1]

Buildings

• 1870: Addition to the Rutgers Preparatory School building (now Alexander Johnston Hall) in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
• 1871–72: Geology Hall, at Rutgers College (now university), in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
• 1873: Sophia Astley Kirkpatrick Memorial Chapel at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, with windows by Louis Comfort Tiffany (renovated 1916)^[3]
• 1873: Suydam Hall at New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Brunswick, New Jersey (razed 1966)
• 1876: Kingfisher Tower near Cooperstown, New York
• 1879-80: two row houses at 101 and 103 West 73rd Street in Manhattan, New York City ^[4]
• 1880–84: The Dakota Apartments located on Manhattan's Upper West Side, in New York City (NYC landmark)^[5]
• 1882-84: Western Union Telegraph Building, located at 186 Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street in Manhattan, New York City^[6]
• 1882-1885: Several Row houses at 15A-19 and 41-65 West 73rd Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side, New York City^[4]
• 1883: Hotel Albert (now the Albert Apartments) in Manhattan, New York City^[4]
• 1883-84: 1845 Broadway in Manhattan, New York City^[7]
• 1888: Schermerhorn Building at 376-380 Lafayette Street in Manhattan, New York City
• 1888-89: Apartment building at 121 East 89th Street part of the Hardenbergh/Rhinelander Historic District ^[5]
• 1888-89: Row houses at 1340, 1342, 1344, 1346, 1348 and 1350 Lexington Avenue part of the Hardenbergh/Rhinelander Historic District ^[5]
• 1891–92: American Fine Arts Building, home of the Art Students League of New York, in Manhattan, New York City (NYC landmark)^[5]
• 1893: Waldorf Hotel located at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City (demolished 1929 to build Empire State Building)
• 1897: Astoria Hotel located at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City (demolished 1929 to build Empire State Building)
• 1897: William Murray Houses, located at 13-15 West 54th Street, Manhattan, New York City (NYC landmark)^[5]
• 1897–1900: Hotel Martinique on Broadway in Manhattan, New York City (enlarged 1907-11)^[4] a NYC landmark ^[5]
• 1901: Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C.* 1902: Sunnyside Island, in the 1000 Islands, New York
• 1902–04: Whitehall Building in Manhattan, New York City (NYC landmark^[5]
• 1904: All Angels' Church – Manhattan, New York City, 1904
• 1905–07: Plaza Hotel at corner of Fifth Avenue and Central Park South (West 59th Street) in Midtown Manhattan, New York City^[8] a NYC landmark ^[5]
• 1908: Trinity Episcopal Church in York Harbor, Maine
• 1911: The Raleigh Hotel at 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington D.C. (demolished 1965)
• 1912: Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts
• 1914: Palmer Stadium, the football stadium and track arena at Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey (demolished 1998)^[9]
• 1915: Consolidated Edison Company Building in Manhattan, New York City (the building only, not the tower)
• 1917–1918: New Jersey Zinc Company Headquarters in Manhattan, New York City.

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External links

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