J.P. Morgan & Company

 'The Corner', or J.P. Morgan & Company designed by Trowbridge & Livingston c. 1913 at 23 Wall Street in New York City.  The building was later home to the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company.  Click HERE and HERE for more on the building and HERE to see it on google.

Photos from Architecture, 1914.

The Astor Apartment House - St. Regis Hotel

The 'Astor Apartment House' designed by Trowbridge & Livingston c. 1901 at Fifth Avenue and East 55th Street in New York City.  Most will recognize this as the St. Regis Hotel, which it became by the time it opened in 1904.  The sketch suggests the building was originally intended as a high end apartment building and at some point was converted to a hotel (Astor had originally intended to build houses on the site).  When it opened the NYTimes called it "the most richly furnished hotel in America" and cost $5,500,000 to build and furnish.  Guests who could afford the $125 a day room charge were treated to numerous modern luxuries including a $300,000 air filtration system that removed a barrel of dust a day.  Click HERE for more on the St. Regis Hotel and HERE to see it on google street view.  Image from Architectural Record, 1901.

The Palace Hotel

 The Palace Hotel designed by Trowbridge & Livingston c. 1909 at 2 New Montgomery Street in San Francisco, California.  The hotel replaced the c. 1875 Palace Hotel which was demolished after the 1906 earthquake.  In 1954 it was sold to Sheraton Hotels and until 1989 operated as the Sheraton-Palace Hotel.  They have since dropped the Sheraton brand and it is once again the Palace Hotel.  Click HERE to see the Palace Hotel on google street view.

Photos from Architectural Review, 1913.

121 East 63rd Street

A stable and artist studio built for C. Ledyard Blair and designed by Trowbridge & Livingston c. 1900 at 121 East 63rd Street in New York City.  At the time Blair was living at 15 East 60th Street.  Today the building is the Gurdjieff Foundation, click HERE to see the building on google street view.  Click HERE for more on Blair's country estate 'Blairsden'.  Photo from Architectural Record, 1901.

'Villa Blanca'

 'Villa Blanca', the Amory Sibley Carhart estate designed by Trowbridge & Livingston c. 1900 in Tuxedo Park, New York.  Carhart, a financier, was commander of the Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States.  Following Amory's death in 1912 his widow hired Horace Trumbauer to design 3 East 95th Street in New York City.  The lot next door (No. 5) would sell to Goodhue Livingston in 1914, architect of the Carhart estate in Tuxedo, though he would never build a house on the site.  'Villa Blanca' was demolished in the 1940s.

Photos from Architecture, 1903.

'Kimparo'

'Kimparo', the James Alexander Scrymser residence designed by Trowbridge & Livingston c. 1899 in Seabright, New Jersey.  Scrymser was President of the Central and South American Cable Company and the Mexican Telegraph Company.  In 1861 Scrymser enlisted in the 12th New York Regiment and after serving as a Lieutenant in the 43rd New York Volunteer Regiment was promoted to Captain and served as an aid with the Sixth Army Corps, taking part in all of the battles of the Union Army until 1864.  Following the war he was a pioneer in the telegraph industry connecting the United States with Central and South America, eventually laying a total of 14,300 miles of cable and 2,500 miles of land wires.  'Kimparo' escaped severe damage during a storm in 1914 that apparently destroyed many of Scrymser's neighbor's residences.  It is unknown if the house in extant.  Photo from Architecture, 1900.

The George Blumenthal Residence

The George Blumenthal residence designed by Trowbridge & Livingston c. 1916 at 50 East 70th Street in New York City.  Blumenthal was a financier and president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Blumenthal willed the house to the museum which used it briefly before selling it (which Blumenthal had specified).  The residence was demolished in the late 1940s.  Photo from the Museum of the City of New York.

The Augustus D. Julliard Residence

The Augustus D. Julliard residence designed by Trowbridge & Livingston c. 1905 at 11 West 57th Street in New York City.  Julliard was senior member of the firm of A.D. Julliard & Co., dry goods merchants, and was a director on the boards of numerous other companies as well as President of the Metropolitan Opera.  Julliard's posthumous philanthropy funded the creation of The Julliard School.  The residence has since been demolished.  Photo from the Museum of the City of New York.

The Bankers Trust Company Building

The Bankers Trust Company Building designed by Trowbridge & Livingston c. 1912 at 14 Wall Street in New York City. Yesterday saw Edmund Converse's home 'Conyers Farm', today we see the building of the company he was president of. Converse would leave the Bankers Trust Company in 1914 to become president of the Astor Trust Company, which in 1917 was acquired by Bankers Trust. Click HERE for more on the Bankers Trust Company Building, HERE for Christopher Gray's Streetscapes article and HERE to see the building on google street view. Click HERE for a history of the Bankers Trust Company.

Quite the view of Ernest Flagg's c. 1908 Singer Building.

Photos from Architecture & Building, 1912.

The Musical Mutual Protective Union

The Musical Mutual Protective Union designed by Trowbridge & Livingston c. 1919 on East 85th Street in New York City. Founded in 1863, the union was a local of the American Federation of Musicians. The building is now part of a movie theatre on East 86th Street.

Photos from Architecture, 1919.

The Bankers Trust Company Building

The Bankers Trust Company Building designed by Trowbridge & Livingston c. 1912 at 14 Wall Street in New York City. Click HERE for more on the Bankers Trust Company Building.

Photos from Architecture, 1912.