Research Catalog

Title

New York transformed : the architecture of Cross & Cross / Peter Pennoyer, Anne Walker ; foreword by Robert A.M. Stern.

Author

Pennoyer, Peter.

Publication

New York : The Monacelli Press, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Walker, Anne, 1973-
• Stern, Robert A. M.
• Cross & Cross, architect.

Description

240 pages : illustrations (some color), plans; 32 cm

Summary

The architects Cross & Cross shaped the streetscape and skyline of New York City in the 1920s and 1930s with Upper East Side townhouses and apartment buildings, the RCA Victor Building, and Tiffany's flagship store on 57th Street. Working through a period of American history that saw dramatic change, from luxurious apartment buildings during the economic boom of the 1920s, to federal commissions during the Depression, the brothers John and Eliot Cross were masters of their craft. Well-connected society men who also showed remarkable foresight in business, Cross & Cross supported their practice with a partnered real estate firm and played a vital role in residential developments like Sutton Place along the East River. Cross & Cross oversaw the development of handsome clubs and houses throughout New York City, including the Links Club and the Upper East Side houses of Lewis Spencer Morris and George Whitney. They designed country houses in exclusive residential pockets outside New York—the Southampton estate of Winterthur founder Henry Francis du Pont; houses on the North Shore of Long Island, and in Greenwich, Connecticut; the childhood home of Sister Parish in Far Hills, New Jersey; and the Shelburne, Vermont home of J. Watson and Electra Webb. 0.

Subjects

• Architecture > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
• Cross & Cross Catalogues raisonnés
• New York (N.Y.) > Buildings, structures, etc

Note

• Includes a catalogue raisonné.
• Catalogue raisonné : pages 216-221.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (222-231) and index.

Call Number

(C.R.) MQZ (Cross) 15-1593

ISBN

• 9781580933803
• 1580933807

LCCN

2013950594

OCLC

868081821

Author

Pennoyer, Peter.

Title

New York transformed : the architecture of Cross & Cross / Peter Pennoyer, Anne Walker ; foreword by Robert A.M. Stern.

Publisher

New York : The Monacelli Press, [2014]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (222-231) and index.

Local Note

Catalogues Raisonnés Collection (NYPL, Art & Architecture).

Added Author

Walker, Anne, 1973-

Stern, Robert A. M., author of introduction, etc.

Cross & Cross, architect.

Research Call Number

(C.R.) MQZ (Cross) 15-1593