Henry Janeway Hardenbergh

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The Dakota, New York

Henry Janeway Hardenbergh (born February 6, 1847 in New Brunswick , New Jersey , † March 18, 1918 in New York City ) was an American architect . His most famous works included the Dakota Building and the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan .

Life

Hardenbergh set up as a freelance architect in 1871, having previously trained for five years in a New York architecture firm. He received his first assignment for Rutgers College in New Brunswick . The fact that his grandfather Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh was the first president of this institution was probably one of the determining factors in the award of the contract.

The Plaza Hotel

The relationship with Edward Clark , the president and majority shareholder of the Singer Manufacturing Company , proved particularly beneficial in the years that followed. First he designed the Kingfisher Tower in Otsego Lake near Cooperstown . This observation tower, designed in the style of neo-Gothic and Rhine romanticism in 1876 , is located on the country seat of the Clarks. Hardenbergh was next awarded the contract to build Clark Hall , a building for the Geological Institute at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts . This building for Clark's former university was inaugurated in 1880, but demolished in 1907. Edward Clark placed his last and largest order in October 1880 with the construction of the Dakota Building in New York City. The building takes up the entire block front between 72nd and 73rd Street on western Central Park and in turn contains elements of neo-Gothic style. The construction of an apartment building with luxury apartments was a completely new concept at the time and made Hardenbergh a specialist in luxury apartment buildings and hotels. Edward Clark died in 1882, so that his grandson Edward Severin Clark inherited the building before it was completed in 1884.

With the buildings of the Waldorf Hotel in 1893 for William Waldorf Astor and the Astoria Hotel in 1897 for John Jacob Astor IV , Hardenbergh created the well-known forerunners of today's Waldorf-Astoria-Hotel . However, its buildings had to give way in 1929 for the new construction of the Empire State Building . The buildings that still exist today include The Plaza Hotel in New York's Central Park and the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston .

Hardenbergh's late work includes the Palmer Stadium at Princeton University in Princeton in his home state New Jersey .

In 1908 Hardenbergh was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters . In 1910 he was elected Associate Member ( ANA ) of the National Academy of Design .

building

literature

  • Michael Conforti, James A. Ganz, Neil Harris, Sarah Lees, Gilbert T. Vincent: The Clark Brothers Collect, Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings . New Haven and London ISBN 0-931102-65-0

Web links

Commons : Henry Janeway Hardenbergh  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members: Henry J. Hardenbergh. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "H" / Hardenbergh, Henry J. ANA 1910 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed June 25, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
personal data
SURNAME Hardenbergh, Henry Janeway
BRIEF DESCRIPTION american architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH New Brunswick in the US state of New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1918
Place of death New York City