The Dakota Apartment House, New York: Exterior – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: The Dakota Apartment House, New York: Exterior, preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The Dakota Apartment House, New York: Exterior
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Set on Central Park West at 72nd Street, the Dakota stood at the edge of a neighborhood that was still largely undeveloped when it rose, and its name is traditionally said to be a joke about how remote the site felt. This 1885 print reproduces a drawing of the exterior as it ran in *The Sanitary Engineer*, a trade journal devoted to plumbing, ventilation and building hygiene, which suggests the building drew attention for its modern domestic systems as well as its looks. Designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh and completed around 1884, the Dakota was among the earliest large apartment houses built for wealthy New York families, and it set a model for the luxury buildings that followed.
| Created / published | 1885 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | Repro. of drawing. Illus. in: The Sanitary Engineer XI (1885), p. 271. Reference copy may be in SSF - Apartment Houses. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Archi; Geogr.; Apartment... |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,115 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-142838 |
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