Henry Janeway Hardenbergh
Henry Janeway Hardenbergh (
February 6,
1847 -
March 18,
1918) was a
U.S. architect, best known for having designed
The Dakota luxury-apartment building and the
Plaza Hotel, both near
Central Park in
Manhattan.
Hardenbergh was born in
New Brunswick, New Jersey and apprenticed from
1865 to
1870 in an architecture firm in New York. In
1871, het set up his own practice. He obtained his first contracts—for
Rutgers College in New Brunswick—through family connections: his grandfather,
Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, had been the first president of Rutgers College from
1785 to
1790, when it was still called "Queen's College".
His career took off when he got the contract to design the
Vancorlear apartment building on West 55th Street in New York 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 (
1880 -
1886). As part of this work, he designed the
Dakota building. Subsequently, he received commissions to build the Waldorf (1893) and the Astoria (1897) hotels for the Astor Estate in New York; both were demolished in
1929 so that the
Empire State Building could be erected.
He built several other buildings in similar styles, including the
Plaza Hotel in New York (
1905 -
1907), or the Copley Plaza (
1912) on
Copley Square in
Boston, Massachusetts.
Hardenbergh lived for some time in
Bernardsville, New Jersey and died 1918 in
New York City.
*Sophia Astley Kirkpatrick Memorial Chapel at Rutgers college. Built in 1873. Has windows by
Louis Comfort Tiffany.
[http://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/kirkpatrick/KirkpatrickChapel3.htm]*the Telegraph Building, built from 1882 to 1884
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The Dakota, built in 1882.
*the
Plaza Hotel, built from 1905 to 1907.
[http://www.victoriana.com/LordAndTaylor/NY-Hotels.html]*the
Waldorf Hotel*the
Astoria Hotel*the
Copley Plaza, built in 1912
*
Palmer Field (
Princeton University), built in 1914
[http://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/palmer_stadium.html]
