Background
Henry L.Hardenbergh was born in 1847 in Brunswick, New Jersey, United States.
1883
1892
(Completed in 1884 it was considered the most notable exam...)
Completed in 1884 it was considered the most notable example of its type in the city at that time
Henry L.Hardenbergh was born in 1847 in Brunswick, New Jersey, United States.
At the age of eighteen he entered the New York office of D. Lienau as a student-draftsman, and after five years of training, set up his own office in the city in 1870. His first important commission received during the next year was for a Grammar School at Rutgers, N. J., followed later by a Library and Chapel for the school.
During the early eighties Mr. Hardenbergh won recognition in designing the Dakota Apartment House at Central Park West and 72nd Street. Completed in 1884 it was considered the most notable example of its type in the city at that time, and was followed a few years later by the Adelaide Apartment House at 635 Park Avenue. As his practice increased Mr. Hardenbergh planned larger and more important works in the city, including noted hotels of that period and several office and business structures. Among these were Hotel Albert on University Place, 1883; Western Union Telegraph Company buildings on Broad Street and at 23rd and Fifth Avenue, 1884; Astor Office Building on Wall Street, 1885; London and Lancashire Insurance Building, William Street, 1890; Waldorf Hotel on Fifth Avenue at 33rd Street, 1892; the new Astor Hotel at 34th Street, 1896; Manhattan Hotel, 42nd Street, 1896, and the Marinique on Broadway at 33rd Street, 1897. The Raleigh Hotel in Washington, D. C., 1898, and the new Willard there completed about the same time, added to Mr. Hardenbergh’s reputation in that field of work, while the Plaza Hotel in New York at 59th Street and Fifth Avenue, built about 1906, and the new Copley Plaza in Boston, opened in 1912, were his outstanding achievements in architecture.
Throughout his long career a member of the New York Chapter, A.I.A. and advanced to Institute Fellowship in 1887, Mr. Hardenbergh was also active in the Architectural League of New York, and in 1901 elected president of the organization. In 1910 he was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design, and one of the founders of the American Fine Arts Society and New York’s Municipal Art Society.
