Featured Buildings

The houses of Sutton Place represent the first milestone in Mott Schmidt's career.

A masterful assembly of a series of cottage-like elements in an offset, interlocking block along the shore.

Mott Schmidt's first major commission achieves the kind of sophistication and understatement that became hallmarks of his style.

The more austere Anne Vanderbilt townhouse occupies the 57th Street corner of Sutton Place.

This mid-block building appropriates the facade organization of a Georgian row at a greatly inflated scale, and accommodates four large apartments per floor.

This large house shows Schmidt's gift for gracious and functional planning.

Schmidt's largest apartment house stands proudly among upper Park Avenue's distinguished palaces.

One of a series of period revival theme villages, French City Village is a semi­urban enclave which anticipated the "townhouse" developments of the 1970s.

This tiny jewel of a townhouse is an unusual variation on Schmidt's planning formula.

Schmidt's Astor patronage produced this fine colonial revival country house for Ava Alice Muriel Astor, Vincent's eccentric sister.

Schmidt's creative watershed, 1926, culminated in the building of his own country house, whimsically named from a children's book by Rudyard Kipling.

Another Adam-inspired townhouse, the Astor house is considered by many to be Schmidt's best New York building.

This elegant limestone-fronted townhouse is probably the best of Schmidt's later urban residences.

In his country houses, Schmidt often looked directly to English models, and the Peyton house uses this source to good effect.

In this charming municipal complex, Schmidt deftly accommodated the requirements of modern life within the envelope of the 18th century idiom we call Georgian.

Schmidt's third commission for the Dillon family, built in New Jersey "horse country" at Far Hills, is perhaps Schmidt's best residential work of the 1930s.

Over the course of 25 years, Schmidt executed some dozen commissions for the Rockefeller family, including country houses and apartment alterations.

Schmidt's final New York apartment house, designed in collaboration with Rosario Candela, is a rare departure from the traditional classical vocabulary.

Hudson Pines remains one of Mott Schmidt's finest country houses.

Hillcrest, designed for Martha Baird Rockefeller, now houses the Rockefeller Archives.

The Susan B. Wagner Wing, Schmidt's last major commission, remains his best-known work and is a fitting culmina­tion to a long career.