Henry Janeway Hardenbergh (February 6, 1847 – March 13, 1918) was an American architect, best known for his hotels and apartment buildings, and as a "master of a new building form — the skyscraper." He worked three times with Edward Clark, the wealthy owner of the Singer Sewing Machine Company and real estate developer: The Singer company's first tower in New York City, the Dakota Apartments, and its precursor, the Van Corlear. He is best known for building apartment dwellings and luxury hotels.
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Henry Janeway Hardenbergh (February 6, 1847 – March 13, 1918) was an American architect, best known for his hotels and apartment buildings, and as a "master of a new building form — the skyscraper." He worked three times with Edward Clark, the wealthy owner of the Singer Sewing Machine Company and real estate developer: The Singer company's first tower in New York City, the Dakota Apartments, and its precursor, the Van Corlear. He is best known for building apartment dwellings and luxury hotels.
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Life and career Hardenbergh was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, of a Dutch family, and attended the Hasbrouck Institute in Jersey City. He apprenticed in New York from 1865 to 1870 under Detlef Lienau, and, in 1870, opened his own practice there. He obtained his first contracts for three buildings at Rutgers College in New Brunswick, New Jersey—the expansion of Alexander Johnston Hall (1871), designing and building Geology Hall (1872) and the Kirkpatrick Chapel (1873)—through family connections. Hardenbergh's great-great grandfather, the Reverend Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, had been the first president of Rutgers College from 1785 to 1790, when it was still called "Queen's College". He then got the contract to design the "Vancorlear" on West 55th Street, the first apartment hotel in New York City, in 1879. The following year, he was commissioned by Edward S. Clark, then head of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, to build a housing development. As part of this work, he designed the pioneering Dakota Apartments on Central Park West, novel in its location, very far north of the center of the city. He also designed some houses on West 73rd Street. Subsequently, Hardenbergh received commissions to build the Waldorf Hotel (1893) and the…
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Organizations Hardenbergh was elected to the American Institute of Architects in 1867, and was made a Fellow in 1877. He was president of the Architectural League of New York from 1901 to 1902, and was an associate of the National Academy of Design. Hardenbergh was one of the founders of the American Fine Arts Society as well as the Municipal Art Society. He was also a member of the Sculpture Society and the Century, Riding, Grolier and Church Clubs.
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Buildings 1870: Addition to the Rutgers Preparatory School building (now Alexander Johnston Hall) in New Brunswick, New Jersey. 1871–1872: library, chapel and Geology Hall, at Rutgers College (now university), in New Brunswick, New Jersey. 1873: Sophia Astley Kirkpatrick Memorial Chapel at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, with windows by Louis Comfort Tiffany (renovated 1916) 1873: Suydam Hall at New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Brunswick, New Jersey (razed 1966) 1876: Kingfisher Tower near Cooperstown, New York 1879: The Vancolear, West 55th Street and Seventh Avenue, the city's first apartment hotel 1879: Loch Ada, 590 Proctor Road, Glen Spey, Lumberland, Sullivan County, New York (razed 1996) 1879–1880: two row houses at 101 and 103 West 73rd Street in Manhattan, New York City 1880–1884: The Dakota Apartments located on Manhattan's Upper West Side, in New York City (NYC landmark) 1882–1884: Western Union Telegraph Building, located at 186 Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street in Manhattan, New York City 1882–1885: Several Row houses at 13-67 West 73rd Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side, New York City 1883: Hotel Albert (now the Albert Apartments) in Manhattan, New York City 1883-84: 1845 Broadway in Manhattan, New York City 1886–1887: 337 & 339 East 87th Street,…
