The Phipps Houses No. 1

 The Phipps Houses, a six-story tenement building built for Henry Phipps and designed by Grosvenor Atterbury c. 1906 at 321-337 East 31st Street in New York City.  Phipps created a $1 million fund for the creation of his model tenements which were designed to prove that one could earn a return on this new, larger form of tenement design while providing more suitable living standards.  Click HERE for Christopher Gray's Streetscapes article on the Phipps Houses and HERE for a 1905 NYTimes article on the announcement of the creation of the Phipps tenement fund.  Click HERE for more on Phipps Houses and their affiliate Phipps CDC.  The building has since been demolished.

Photos from The Brickbuilder, 1907.

The Russell Sage Foundation Building

The Russell Sage Foundation Building designed by Grosvenor Atterbury c. 1912 at 130 East 22nd Street and Lexington Avenue in New York City. The Russell Sage Foundation funds and publishes research in the social sciences. The building was altered in 1922 and Atterbury designed a fifteen story extension on East 22nd Street c. 1930. The Sage Foundation moved out in 1949 and the building currently functions as an apartment house. Click HERE to read Christopher Gray's Streetscapes column and HERE to see the building on google street view.

Photos from The American Architect, 1915.