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New York
Architecture Images-Upper East Side
Russian Orthodox Synod Of Bishops |
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Delano & Aldrich |
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67-76 East 93rd Street, Bet. Park And Madison Aves. |
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No. 75, main house, 1917-18; No. 71-73, ballroom wing, 1928; No. 69, 1928-29; No. 67, 1931 |
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neo-Federal |
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notes |
Andrew S.
Dolkart, "Touring The Upper East Side, Walks in Five Historic Districts" (published by the New York Landmarks Conservancy, 1995), "A decade after construction began the house was sold to .... [George] F. Baker Jr., then vice-president of the First National Bank (now Citibank), and his wife, Edith. For the Bakers, Delano & Aldrich designed a series of additions, all of which harmonize with the original work. The ballroom wing to the west and the two-story garage at No. 69 form a spacious courtyard. The garage features the boldest architectural element of the complex, a colonnade of paired, fluted marble Ionic columns. Farther west, at No. 67, Baker demolished a brownstone rowhouse in corder to build a house for his father,...., the main force behind the creation of First National Bank, but he died before its completion; at the senior Baker's death "young Mr. Baker," ..., inherited $60 million and became chairman of the board of the bank. The nautical motifs that ornament each addition - a conch shell at the ballroom, scallop schells at the garage, and a pair of dolphins at No. 67 - may be associated with Baker's yachting interests; in fact, he died on his yacht Viking in 1937." |
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