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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1875/00/00 Effingham B Sutton, a shipping merchant who made a fortune during the California Gold Rush, builds a row of brownstone residences between 57th and 58th Streets in hopes of re-establishing a residential community.
1920/00/00 Sutton Place, a disengaged section of Avenue A, is home to the Peter Doelger Brewery, decaying rowhouses and tenement buildings.
1920/00/00 Mott B Schmidt Architect Elisabeth Marbury hires Mott B Schmidt to remodel No 13 Sutton Place into a Georgian home
1921/00/00 Mott B Schmidt Architect Anne Vanderbilt buys Effingham Sutton's house, No 1 Sutton Place, and hires Mott Schmidt to renovate it into a 13-room Georgian residence.
1921/00/00 Anne Rutherfurd Vanderbilt Home Anne Vanderbilt buys Effingham Sutton's house, No 1 Sutton Place, and hires Mott Schmidt to renovate it into a 13-room Georgian residence.
2018/09/00 Sutton Place townhouse designed for Anne Vanderbilt is offered for sale at the price of $21 million.

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Particulars for Sutton Place Historic District:
Architectural Style American Colonial Revival
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Physiographic feature Forest
Architectural Style Georgian Revival
Sight Category Historic District
Owner Private
Historic Use Single dwelling



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 12th September 1985

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Sutton Place Historic District
Registry Address: 1--21 Sutton Pl. 4--16 Sutton Sq.
Registry Number: 85002294
Resource Type: District
Owner: Private
Architect: Multiple
Architectural Style: Colonial revival, Other
Attribute: Georgian Revival
Contributing Buildings: 12
Non-Contributing Buildings: 4
Contributing Sites: 1
Contributing Structures: 1
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1900-1924, 1925-1949
Significant Year: 1920, 1935
Historic Function: Domestic, Landscape
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling, Forest
Current Function: Domestic, Landscape
Current Sub-Function: Single dwelling Forest

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