Henry Janeway Hardenbergh

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. 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 adjoining Astoria Hotel (1897) hotels for William Waldorf Astor and Mrs. Astor, respectively. The two competing hotels were later joined together as the Waldorf-Astoria, which was demolished in 1929 for the construction of the Empire State Building.

Hardenbergh lived for some time in Bernardsville, New Jersey, where he designed the building for the school house built with funds donated by Frederic P. Olcott. Hardenbergh died at his home in Manhattan, New York City on March 13, 1918. He is buried in Woodland Cemetery, in Stamford, Connecticut.

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. 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 1882–1885: Several Row houses at 13-67 West 73rd Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side, New York City 1883-84: 1845 Broadway in Manhattan, New York City 1886–1887: 337 & 339 East 87th Street, Manhattan, New York City 1888: Schermerhorn Building at 376-380 Lafayette Street in Manhattan, New York City 1888–1889: Apartment building at 121 East 89th Street part of the Hardenbergh/Rhinelander Historic District 1903: Preston B. Moss House, 914 Division St., Billings, Montana 1904: All Angels' Church – Manhattan, New York City 1904: Van Norden Trust Company Building, 751 5th Ave., New York City, demolished. 1905–1907: Plaza Hotel at corner of Fifth Avenue and Central Park South (West 59th Street) in Midtown Manhattan, New York City a NYC landmark 1911: The Raleigh Hotel at 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington D.C. (demolished 1965) 1912: Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts 1912: Stamford Trust Company Building, 300 Main St., Stamford, Connecticut 1914: Palmer Stadium, the football stadium and track arena at Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey (demolished 1998) 1915: Consolidated Edison Company Building in Manhattan, New York City (the building only, not the tower) 1917–1918: New Jersey Zinc Company Headquarters, Maiden Lane, Manhattan, New York City.

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