William Kissam Vanderbilt House, 49 East 52nd Street (New York, N.Y.)

Warren, Whitney, 1864-1943

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Whitney Warren was a New York architect. He studied in Paris at the Atliers of the Ecole des Beaux Arts and returned to NYC in 1896 to found the firm Warren & Wetmore. Two of the firm's major works were the Grand Central Terminal and the Biltmore Hotel, both in New York City. Warren was also a co-founder of the Beaux Arts Institute of Design and served as director for many years. From the description of Whitney Warren papers, 1864-1943. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 6...

Warren & Wetmore

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Regarding the Aeolian Hall, the following information can be found in the 1988 AIA Guide to New York City: "City University Graduate Center, CUNY/originally Aeolian Hall . . . 1912. Warren & Wetmore. Redesigned, 1970, Carl J. Petrilli & Assocs. What was once a concert hall and then a five-and-ten is now a bluestone-floored pedestrian arcade forming an elegant shortcut between 42nd and 43rd Streets. . . . George Gershwin introduced Rhapsody in Blue in Aeolian Hall with Paul Whiteman's Orc...

Wetmore, Charles D., 1867-1941

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William K. Vanderbilt House

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The William K. Vanderbilt House, also known as the Petit Chateau, was a Châteauesque mansion at 660 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The mansion was built for William Kissam Vanderbilt, second son of William H. Vanderbilt and Maria Louisa Kissam from 1878 to 1882. It was sold to real-estate developer Benjamin Winter, Sr. in 1926 and demolished in 1927....

Vanderbilt, William K. (William Kissam), 1849-1920

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