Vandervoort bought the property around 1880; the author of his 1882 house has now been identified. This project could suggest the means by which Theodore Roosevelt learned about the firm before he built his house in Oyster Bay.
Version 7.5 of the list (pdf) also identifies the six houses the firm designed for Gerald L. Schuyler at 307 West 83rd Street and 481-489 West End Avenue. At least two of these survive, one of which is mentioned by Christopher Gray in “The School of the Stepped Gables,” New York Times (30 January 2009).
Other new citations include:
- an alteration to Elizabeth Milbank’s house at 6 East 38th by her daughter, Elizabeth M. Anderson;
- some interesting hotel alterations at 53-59 West 42nd Street for the New York Real Estate and Building Improvement Company, another Ferdinand Fish production; and
- a confirmation of the firm’s 1916 alteration of the Educational Building, now apparently the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center of the Parsons School of Design.