Emery Roth
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Born | Gálszécs,Kingdom of Hungary,(nowSečovce,Slovakia) |
Died | August 20, 1948 (aged 77) New York City,U.S. |
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Occupation | Architect |
Notable work | Hotel Belleclaire(1903) Ritz Tower(1925) The El Dorado(1929–31) The San Remo(1930) The Ardsley (1931) 2 Sutton Place South (1938) 300 East 57th Street(1947) |
Spouse | Ella Grosman |
Children | 4 includingJulian |
Emery Roth(Hungarian:Róth Imre,died August 20, 1948) was a Hungarian-American architect ofHungarian-Jewishdescent who designed manyNew York Cityhotels andapartment buildingsof the 1920s and 1930s, incorporatingBeaux-ArtsandArt Decodetails. His sons continued in the family enterprise, largely expanding the firm under the nameEmery Roth & Sons.
Life and career
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Born in Gálszécs,Kingdom of Hungary(nowSečovce,Slovakia to a Jewish family, Roth emigrated to the United States at the age of 13 after his family fell into poverty upon his father's death. He began his architectural apprenticeship as a draftsman in the Chicago offices ofBurnham & Root,working on theWorld's Columbian Expositionof 1893. Roth also designed one of his first solo projects at the Exposition: a pavilion that housed a chocolatier.[1]
At the Exposition, Roth metRichard Morris Hunt,who was impressed with his skills and invited Roth to work in his office in New York. Following Hunt's premature death in 1895, Roth moved to the office ofOgden Codman Jr.,a designer and decorator with aNewport, Rhode Island,clientele. In theinterwar years,the firm of Emery Roth delivered some of the most influential examples of architecture forapartment housesin the at-the-time fashionableBeaux Artsstyle, especially inManhattan.[2]
Many of his most notable projects are located on theUpper West Side,specificallyCentral Park Westwhich is home tothe San Remo,the Beresford,the Ardsley, and others. In 1938, Roth included his sons Julian and Richard as partners.
Buildings designed
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Building | Year | Location | Notes |
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The Saxony | 1899-1900 | 250 West 82nd Street | |
Hotel Belleclaire | 1903 | 250 West 77th Street (aka 1271–1277Broadway) | |
The Adath Jeshurun of Jassy synagogue | 1903 | 58Rivington Street | |
Whitestone | 1909 | 45 Tiemann Place | Builder Charter Construction Co. |
601 West End Avenue | 1915 | 601West End Avenue | |
TheFirst Hungarian Reformed Church | 1915 | 346 East69th Street | |
1000 Park Avenue[3] | 1916 | Park Avenueand East84th Street | |
570 Park Avenue | 1916 | Park Avenueand East63rd Street | |
151 East 80th Street | 1922 | 151 East80th Street | |
The Whitby | 1924 | 325 West45th Street | |
The Gilford | 1924 | 140 East46th Street | |
110 West 86th Street | 1924 | 110 West86th Street | |
Chester Court[4][5] | 1924 | 201 West89th Street | |
243 West End Avenue | 1925 | 243West End Avenue (Manhattan) | |
Mayflower Hotel | 1925 | 15 Central Park West | demolished in 2004 |
221 West 82nd Street | 1925 | 221 West 82nd Street | |
930 Fifth Avenue | 1940 | 930Fifth Avenue | |
Ritz Tower | 1925 | 465 Park Avenue (101 East 57th)[6] | WithThomas Hastings.New York's first residential skyscraper introduced terraces at thesetbacklevels. |
41 West 96th Street | 1926 | 41 West96th Street | |
65 Central Park West | 1926 | 65 Central Park West;Lincoln Square | |
The Alden | 1927 | 225 Central Park West;Upper West Side | |
The Oliver Cromwell | 1927 | 12 West72nd Street | |
Warwick Hotel | 1927 | 65 West54th Street | |
Hotel Benjamin | 1927 | 125 East50th Street | |
Hotel Carteret | 1927 | 208 West23rd Street | |
580 West End Avenue | 1928 | 580 West End Avenue[7] | |
Manchester House | 1928 | 145 West79th Street | |
The Belvoir | 1928 | 470 West End Avenue | |
The El Dorado | 1929–1931 | 300 Central Park West /Central Park West Historic District | |
The Beresford | 1929 | 211Central Park West | |
15 West 81st Street | 1929 | 15 West 81st Street | |
300 West 23rd Street | 1929 | 300 West23rd Street | |
35 Prospect Park West | 1929 | Prospect Park;Brooklyn | |
Hotel St. George | 1930 | 100 Henry Street,Brooklyn Heights | |
Hotel St. Moritz | 1930 | 50Central Park South | |
993 Fifth Avenue | 1930 | 993 Fifth Avenue | |
784 Park Avenue | 1930 | 784Park Avenue | |
The San Remo | 1930 | 145 and 146Central Park West | The first of the twin-towered residential skyscrapers. |
The Ardsley | 1931 | 320Central Park West | Roth's outstandingArt Decoresidential skyscraper. |
275 Central Park West | 1930–1931 | 275Central Park West | |
299 West 12th Street | 1931 | 299 West 12th Street | |
140 East 28th Street | 1932 | 140 East28th Street | |
888 Grand Concourse | 1937 | 888Grand Concourse | |
880 Fifth Avenue | 1948 | 880Fifth Avenue | |
2 Sutton Place South | 1938 | 2 Sutton Place South | |
41 West 96th Street | 1925 | 41 West96th Street | |
310 West End Avenue | 1927 | 310West End Avenue | |
The Normandy | 1938 | 140Riverside Drive | Last of the twin-towered residences, and Roth's choice for his retirement apartment. |
[Shenandoah Apartments] | 1929 | 10 Sheridan Square | |
The Grasmoor House | 1940 | 2370-2380 Madison Road, Cincinnati Ohio | An amazing 55 unitArt Decoresidential condominium. |
Emery Roth & Sons
[edit]Despite the fact that Roth's sons, Julian and Richard, had joined the firm many years earlier, it was not until 1947 that the firm's name was changed to Emery Roth & Sons, approximately one year before Roth's death.[8]: 50 Julian(1901–1992) specialized in construction costs and building materials and technology, while Richard (1904–1987) was named the firm's principal architect.[8]: 51
In the 1950s and 1960s Emery Roth & Sons became the most influentialarchitectural firmin New York and contributed substantially in changing the appearance ofMidtownandLower Manhattan.In that particular period of time Emery Roth & Sons designed dozens of speculative office buildings, mostly withcurtain wallfacades, which soon became a ubiquitous feature of the city.[8]: 51
Beginning in the mid-1960s, the firm was also hired as associate architects in large-scale projects like thePan Am Building(1963), theWorld Trade Center(1966–1973) and theCiticorp Center(1977). In the early 1960s, Richard Roth's son, Richard Roth, Jr. (b. 1933) became the third generation to join the firm, eventually rising to chief architect CEO and shareholder.[9]
As the firm expanded and diversified over six decades, it remained a family business through the 1990s. In 1988 Richard Roth Jr's daughter Robyn Roth-Moise joined the firm as comptroller. Richard Roth Jr's son Richard Lee Roth joined the firm in 1982 and became the chief specification writer for Emery Roth & Sons. Both retired from the firm when Richard Roth Jr retired and was replaced as the company's CEO in 1993 by Robert Sobel, Roth's cousin.[10]
Only three years later, in 1996, the firm ceased to operate, apparently because offinancial distress.[11]Emery's great-grandson Richard Lee Roth currently works in the architectural profession and resides in South Florida.
The extensive architectural records and papers of both Emery Roth and Emery Roth & Sons are now held in the Department of Drawings & Archives at theAvery Architectural and Fine Arts LibraryatColumbia University.
Work by Emery Roth & Sons
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- 300 East 57th Street(1947)
- Paris Theater& Office Building (1948)
- 715 Park Avenue (1949)
- 945 Fifth Avenue Apartments (1949)
- Look Building,488 Madison Avenue (1949)
- 40 Park Avenue (1950)
- 45 East End Avenue Apartments (1950)
- 85 East End Avenue, NE corner of E83rd St (1950)
- 575 Madison Avenue (1950)
- 2 Fifth Avenue (1952)
- 380 Madison Avenue (1953)
- 30 Park Avenue (1954)
- 555 Fifth Avenue (1954)
- 589 Fifth Avenue (1954)
- National Distillers Building (1954)
- 430 Park Avenue (Renovation) (1954)
- Baruch Houses(1954–1959)
- 460 Park Avenue (1955)
- Bank of Montreal Building (1955)
- Colgate-Palmolive Building (1955)
- Davies Building (1955)
- 156 William Street (1956)
- 415 Madison Avenue (1956)
- 485 Lexington Avenue (1956)
- 1430 Broadway (1956)
- 123 William Street (1957)
- 630 Third Avenue (1958)
- 750 Third Avenue (1958)
- 400 Madison Avenue (1958)
- General Reinsurance Building (1958)
- 100 Church Street (1958)
- 166 East 63rd Street (Beekman Town House) (1959)
- 2 Broadway(1959)
- 10 Lafayette Square(Buffalo, New York) (1959)
- 355 Lexington Avenue (1959)
- Bronx High School of Science(1959)
- Harriman National Bank Building (1959)
- Lorillard Building (1959)
- East Ohio Building(Cleveland,Ohio) (1959)
- 10 East 70th Street Apartments (1960)
- 80 Pine Street (1960)
- Imperial House,150 East 69th Street (1960)
- Mutual of America Building (1960)
- 850 Third Avenue (1961)
- Pfizer Building (1961)
- Diamond National Building (1961)
- 60 Broad Street (1962)
- 215 East 68th Apartments (1962)
- 1180 Sixth Avenue (1962)
- Bankers Trust Building (1962)
- Tower East Apartments (1962)
- Hanover Bank Building (1962)
- 1212 Sixth Avenue (1963)
- 250 Broadway (1963)
- 605 Third Avenue, (f/k/aNeuberger BermanBuilding, originally the Burroughs Building) (1963)
- 845 Third Avenue (1963)
- 1290 Avenue of the Americas, theNeuberger Bermanbuilding (1963)
- MetLife Building(Pan Am Building) (1963)
- Donaldson, Lufkin & JenretteBuilding (1963)
- 277 Park Avenue(1964)
- 641 Lexington Avenue (1964)
- Harcourt, Brace & World Building (1964)
- Sterling Drug Company Building (90 Park Avenue) (1964)
- 600 Madison Avenue (1965)
- Bankers Trust Annex Building (1965)
- Xerox Building (1965)
- MGM Building (1965)
- Leverett Saltonstall Building (1965)
- Financial Times Building (1965)
- 675 Third Avenue (1966)[12]
- MacMillan Building (1966)
- 299 Park Avenue(a.k.a. Westvaco Building) (1967)
- 909 Third Avenue (1967)
- ITT-American Building (1967)
- General Motors Building(1968)
- 10 Hanover Square (1969)
- 100 Wall Street (1969)
- 345 Park Avenue(1969)
- 1700 Broadway (1969)
- 1345 Avenue of the Americas(1969)
- Random House Building (1969)
- Schroder Building (1969)
- Emigrant Savings Bank Building (1969)
- 77 Water Street (1970)
- 1633 Broadway(Paramount Plaza) (1970)
- 1133 Avenue of the Americas (formerly Interchem Building) (1970)
- 22 Cortlandt Street(1971)
- 200 Water Street (a.k.a. 127 John Street) (1971)
- 600 Third Avenue (1971)
- 888 Seventh Avenue(1971)
- Capitol-EMI Building (1971)
- Park Lane Hotel (New York)(1971)
- J.P. Stevens Company Tower (1971)
- One Battery Park Plaza(1971)
- 450 Park Avenue(1972)
- 55 Water Street(1972)
- 747 Third Avenue (1972)
- Harper & Row Building (1972)
- One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza(1972)
- North American Plywood Building (1972)
- Franklin National Bank Building (1972)
- World Trade Center(1972–1973) withMinoru Yamasaki
- 100 East Pratt Street Building(1973)
- Blue Cross Building (1973)
- Merchandise Mart Building (1973)
- Sovereign Apartments(1973)
- Winstar Building and Addition (1974)
- 100 William Street (1974)
- Citigroup Center(1977)
- Helmsley Palace Hotel(1981)
- Crystal Pavilion (1982)
- 575 Fifth Avenue (1983)
- 900 Third Avenue (1983)
- 1155 Avenue of the Americas (1984)
- Manhattan Tower (1985)
- Symphony House Apartments (1986)
- Fifth Avenue Tower (1986)
- 7 World Trade Center(1987)
- Ellington Apartments (1987)
- 17 State Street(1988)
- 1585 Broadway(1989)
- 546 Fifth Avenue (1990)
- Oxford Condominiums (1990)
References
[edit]- ^abRuttenbaum, Steven (1986).Mansions in the Clouds: The Skyscraper Palazzi of Emery Roth.Balsam Press.ISBN978-0917439094.
- ^Prisco, Jacopo (February 8, 2019)."A short history of the elevator".CNN Style.RetrievedMarch 13,2019.
- ^Gray, Christopher (March 9, 2008)."STREETSCAPES: Park Avenue Between 83rd and 84th Street. Seven Apartment Houses in a Piazza-Like Setting".The New York Times.RetrievedAugust 2,2013.
- ^201 W. 89 St. – Chester Court,Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved June 16, 2011
- ^About us,Chester Court official website. Retrieved June 16, 2011
- ^Roth, Emery; Hastings, Thomas; Brisbane, Arthur (1925),Apartment hotel north east corner Park Avenue & Fifty-seventh Street (New York, N.Y,Carrère & Hastings,OCLC80945343,retrievedFebruary 24,2022
- ^https://dlc.library.columbia.edu/catalog/cul:9cnp5hqdcw;Roth, Emery (1926),15 story apartment house NE cor West End Ave and 88th St for Morwitt Realty Corp,Morwitt Realty Corporation, Emery Roth & Sons,OCLC82698952,retrievedFebruary 24,2022
- ^abcStern, Robert A. M.; Mellins, Thomas; Fishman, David (1995).New York 1960: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Second World War and the Bicentennial.New York: Monacelli Press.ISBN1-885254-02-4.OCLC32159240.OL1130718M.
- ^Richard Roth retires; Robert Sobel succeeds.Real Estate Weekly,September 22, 1993. Retrieved June 16, 2011.
- ^Richard Roth retires; Robert Sobel succeeds.Real Estate Weekly,September 22, 1993. Retrieved June 16, 2011.
- ^Emery Roth & Sons architectural records and papers, 1906-1996 (bulk 1951-1994)atColumbia UniversityLibraries: Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library. Retrieved June 16, 2011
- ^"675 Third Avenue".durst.org.RetrievedDecember 3,2015.
Further reading
[edit]- Ruttenbaum, Steven (1986).Mansions in the Cloud: The Skyscraper Palazzi of Emery Roth.ISBN978-0-917439-09-4.
External links
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- Emery Roth architectural drawings and autobiography, circa 1907–1949 (bulk circa 1920–1939)held in theDepartment of Drawings & ArchivesAvery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
- Emery Roth & Sons architectural records and papers, 1906–1996 (bulk 1951–1994)held in theDepartment of Drawings & ArchivesAvery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
- NYC-architecture:Emery Roth
- Emery Roth: a more extended list of structures[usurped]
- 1871 births
- 1948 deaths
- People from the Kingdom of Hungary
- People from Sečovce
- Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States
- Hungarian emigrants to the United States
- American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent
- American ecclesiastical architects
- American residential architects
- 20th-century American architects
- Jewish architects
- World Trade Center