The Heights Casino

The Heights Casino designed by William A. Boring c. 1905 at 75 Montague Street in Brooklyn, New York City.  The social club housed multiple indoor tennis and squash courts.  Click HERE for more on the Heights Casino on Brownstoner.  Click HERE to see the building on google street view.  Photo from The Brickbuilder, 1905.

'Hillbrook'

 'Hillbrook', the George Arents Jr. estate designed by Lewis Colt Albro c. 1916 in Rye, New York.  Arents' father was the treasurer of the American Tobacco Company and Jr. was later associated with the American Machine and Foundry Company and the International Cigar Machinery Company.  It seems the house has been demolished sometime in the last twenty years as the front entrance had been for sale as recently as 2007.

Photos from Architectural Record, 1918.

'Huntland'

 'Huntland', the Joseph B. Thomas estate designed by Peabody, Wilson & Brown c. 1915 in Middleburg, Virginia.  'Huntland' was comprised of over 400 acres and was used primarily for hunting.    The original layout for the estate and some of the outbuildings were designed by Frederick J. Sterner.  The plans were then transferred to a local architect, R.E. Haga, but after his death were taken over by Peabody, Wilson & Brown.  As was the firm's specialty, the main house was enlarged out of the frame of a c. 1830 building.  Click HERE for more on Thomas and HERE to see 'Huntland' on google earth.

'Villa Julia'

Riverside Drive, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Monument and 'Villa Julia', the Isaac L. Rice residence designed by Herts & Tallant c. 1901 at 346 West 89th Street in New York City as seen in 1905.  Click HERE for more on 'Villa Julia'.  Photo courtesy of Old Grey Dog.

The Harold L. Ickes Residence

 The Harold L. Ickes residence designed by Dwight Perkins of Perkins, Fellows & Hamilton c. 1918 in Winnetka, Illinois.  Ickes served as the United States Secretary of the Interior from 1933-1946.  Click HERE for a recent brochure from when the house was for sale with a lot of color photographs.  Click HERE to see the Ickes residence on google earth and HERE on bing.

Photos from Architectural Record, 1918.

The Leonard M. Thomas Residence

 The Leonard M. Thomas residence altered by F. Burrall Hoffman Jr. c. 1917 at 154 East 63rd Street in New York City.  The residence was built in 1914 for Frederick J. Sterner and was altered by Hoffman for Thomas three years later.  By 1919 the home was owned by a W. Lewison who brought back Hoffman to redesign the exterior.  Click HERE to see the residence on google street view.

Photos from Architectural Record, 1919.

399 Park Avenue

399 Park Avenue designed by Schwartz & Gross c. 1920 at the corner of East 54th Street in New York City.  The apartment building was demolished in the late 1950s and replaced with an office tower financed by Vincent Astor.

Photos from Architectural Record, 1921.

The Howard Bayne Estate

 The Howard Bayne estate designed by Alfred C. Bossom c. 1921 in Morristown, New Jersey.  Howard was the son of Samuel G. Bayne, founder and president of the Seaboard National Bank of New York and president of the Security Oil Company.  Howard was vice-president of the Columbia Trust Company.  He held directorships at over a dozen companies and was on the board of the New York Botanical Garden and was treasurer of the American Society for the Control of Cancer and the New York Association for the Blind.  Alfred C. Bossom was married to Bayne's sister Emily (she died in a plane crash in 1932).

Photos from Architecture, 1922.

121 East 63rd Street

A stable and artist studio built for C. Ledyard Blair and designed by Trowbridge & Livingston c. 1900 at 121 East 63rd Street in New York City.  At the time Blair was living at 15 East 60th Street.  Today the building is the Gurdjieff Foundation, click HERE to see the building on google street view.  Click HERE for more on Blair's country estate 'Blairsden'.  Photo from Architectural Record, 1901.

The Edward K. Dunham Residence

The Edward Kellogg Dunham residence designed by Carrere & Hastings c. 1900 at 35 East 68th Street in New York City.  Click HERE and HERE for more on the Dunham residence.  Click HERE to see the residence on google street view.  Photo from Architectural Record, 1901.

No. 7 & 9 East 48th Street

7 East 48th Street designed by McKim, Mead & White c. 1912 and 9 East 48th Street designed by Alfred E. Barlow c. 1912 in New York City.  No. 7 was the John Ruszits Fur Company which had previously been located at Broadway and East 11th Street but lost that location in a fire in 1911.  Click HERE for a 1912 NYTimes article on the opening of this group of shops which have all since been demolished.  Photo from Architecture, 1912.

'Woodedge'

 'Woodedge', the William Stone Post estate designed by George B. Post & Sons c. 1902 in Bernardsville, New Jersey.  William was one of two of Post's sons to enter the architectural trade, thus changing the name of their father's firm to George B. Post & Sons (James Otis Post was the other).  His brother George B. Post Jr. resided at 'Kenilwood' in Bernardsville.  Click HERE for more and HERE to see 'Woodedge' on bing.

Photos from Architecture, 1911.

The Percy R. Pyne Residence

 The Percy Rivington Pyne II residence designed by McKim, Mead & White c. 1909 at 680 Park Avenue and East 68th Street in New York City.  Click HERE to see Pyne's country residence 'Upton Pyne' in New Jersey.  Today 680 Park Avenue is home to the Americas Society.  Click HERE to see the Pyne residence on google street view.

Photos from Architecture, 1911.

'Kenilwood'

 'Kenilwood', the George B. Post Jr. estate designed by George B. Post c. 1901 in Bernardsville, New Jersey.  Post was a founder of the brokerage firm of Post & Flagg and son of the noted NYC architect.  He died in the house in 1937 at the age of 72 and his son George inherited the estate.  In 1986 the estate was purchased with plans to be subdivided and in 1988 Mike Tyson acquired the main house and fourteen acres.  Click HERE to see 'Kenilwood' on bing.  The Images of America book on the Somerset Hills says the estate was built c. 1897 by Post as a present for his daughter Harriet's wedding to Thornton Wilson, however that wedding did not take place until 1921.  What makes the Post lineage ever more confusing is the re-use of the name George Post; there was George Browne Post, the architect, and his son George B. Post Jr. (owner of 'Kenilwood').  Post Jr.'s son was named George B. Post Jr. and that Post's son was also named George B. Post Jr. (why isn't he George B. Post IV?)

Photos from Architecture, 1911.

The Augusta E. Stetson Residence

The Augusta Emma Stetson residence designed by Hunt & Hunt c. 1905 at 7 West 96th Street in New York City.  Stetson helped organize the First Church of Christ, Scientist in NYC in 1887 under direction from Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, and helped finance the construction of the First Church at the corner of Central Park West and West 96th Street c. 1899.  Her house was built behind the church itself, a piece of which can be seen on the right side of the photograph.  In 1909 she was excommunicated on charges of insubordination and false teachings.  Stetson died in 1928 and the residence was demolished and replaced with an apartment house in 1930.  Click HERE to see the First Church on google street view.

'Hacienda'

'Hacienda', the Thomas Gerald Condon estate designed by H.T.E. Wendell c. 1899 in Tuxedo Park, New York.  Condon was president of the Southwestern Coal & Iron Company.  The New York SHPO has a 1977 filing by the Orange County historian which credits the design to a William A. Bates.  The estate was sold in 1908 to Pierre Lorillard Barbey and suffered a devastating fire in 1920.  The residence was reconstructed by Robert R. Graham along the original design c. 1926.  Click HERE to see 'Hacienda' on bing.  Click HERE to see 'Andros Hills', Condon's Grosvenor Atterbury designed estate in Southampton.

'Villa Julia'

 'Villa Julia', the Isaac L. Rice residence designed by Herts & Tallant between 1901-1903 at 346 West 89th Street in New York City.  Rice was an attorney, financier and inventor.  He sold the residence in 1907 to Solomon Schinasi who would die there in 1919.  The Schinasi family sold the house to Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim in 1954 (later Yeshiva Ketana).  Click HERE for Christopher Gray's Streetscapes article on 'Villa Julia' and HERE for more.  Click HERE for Rice's 1915 NYTimes obituary.  Click HERE to see 'Villa Julia' on google street view.

Photos from Architecture, 1903.