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John E. Scharsmith : ウィキペディア英語版 | John E. Scharsmith John E. Scharsmith was an American architect of Swiss extraction with a practice in New York City. Having served with a New York regiment in the American Civil War, by the turn of the 20th century, with offices at 1 Madison Avenue,〔(Office for Metropolitan History, "Manhattan NB Database 1900-1986 ) (accessed 25 February 2010).〕 he was responsible for several landmarked apartment blocks in Beaux-Arts style, such as The Hohenzollern, West End Avenue and 84th Street (1902), and The Chatsworth Apartments, 344 West 72nd Street, (1902–04, Annex, 1905–06),〔Builders: George F. Johnson, Jr. and Aleck Kahn; (Landmarks Preservation Commission: Chatsworth Apartments ); Andrew Dolkart, Matthew A. Postal, ''Guide to New York City Landmarks'', cat. no. 388; ( Christopher Gray, "Streetscapes: The Chatsworth; Riverside South's Threat to a 1904 Apartment Tower," ''The New York Times'', 13 December 1992 ) (accessed 25 February 2010).〕 and for the eight-storey apartment block, 425 West End Avenue, at 72nd Street (1905).〔(Office for Metropolitan History, "Manhattan NB Database 1900-1986 ) (accessed 25 February 2010).〕 He designed the neo-Gothic Swiss House, 37 West 67th Street (1906–07), built for the Swiss Benevolent Society as a home for aged Swiss, one among a group of artists' studio buildings on that block being constructed at the time by various firms.〔(National Register of Historic Places: West 67th Street Artists' Colony Historic District ), 1985; (Christopher Gray, "Streetscapes: The Swiss Home; With Not Enough Old Indigents to Fill It, It's for Sale" ''The New York Times'', 25 September 1994 ) (accessed 25 February 2010).〕 His office also provided designs for less ambitious projects, such as the Fort Tryon Apartments, northeast corner of St. Nicholas Avenue and 180th Street (for Moersh & Wille, 1907)〔(New York Public Library: Digital Gallery, "Apartment houses: New York (State): New York" )〕 the pair of 6-storey brick and stone apartment houses at the northwest corner of St Nicholas Avenue and 163rd Street and southwest corner of 164th Street (1908)〔(Office for Metropolitan History, "Manhattan NB Database 1900-1986," (daccessed 25 February 2010), )〕 or stables he built on West 151st Street just west of Convent Avenue, for John Quinn (1897).〔("In the Real Estate Field, ''The New York Times'' 18 September 1897 )〕 Scharsmith designed the extant block of Renaissance Revival rowhouses at 449-459 Convent Avenue, near 150th Street (1896–97).〔(Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Historic District Extension Designation Report, 2001 )〕 ==Notes==
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