The
Ogden Mills residence designed by
Richard Morris Hunt between 1885-1887 at 5th Avenue and East 69th Street in
New York City. Mills was a financier, philanthropist, and son of
Darius Ogden Mills. He was married to
Ruth T. Livingston and the two were the parents of
Ogden L. Mills of
Woodbury,
Gladys Mills Phipps of '
Spring Hill' in Old Westbury and
Beatrice Mills Forbes. The house was demolished in the late 1930s and replaced with an apartment building. Click
HERE for more on the Mills estate at Staatsburgh, remodeled by McKim, Mead & White c. 1895. Photo from
Architectural Record, 1895.
3 comments:
I have a feeling that this is a house one would have to see to appreciate---certainly not Hunt's most photogenic. How at odds this exterior is with the lavish French interiors the Mills's later installed (Trumbauer? Do I remember correctly?)
Horace redid this mansion, along with an addition. not a beautiful mansion, most likely Hunt's worst design. He deviated so far from his typified French gothic and renaissance for this Italian gothic box. Maybe he shouldve went to Venice first before designing this one. But i would love to floorplans. This mansion had a lot of rooms
As long as we're playing one degree of separation, let's also not forget Ogden Mills' sister, Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, whose New York house was the main wing of the Villard houses, and whose country house, 'Ophir Hall' is this weeks feature in Big Old Houses (http://newyorksocialdiary.com/node/1908721).
Quite a well-housed family, all-in-all.
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