The Imperial Apartments

  • 1905: Casa Blanca
  • 1890: Dorincourt

  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building

The Imperial is a historic brownstone apartment building on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York City. - AsNotedIn


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1882/00/00 Frederick T Camp Architect A 7-story apartment designed by Frederick Camp is built for Frederick Aldhous. The building is well preserved. The original portico has been lost, fire escapes have been added, but portions of the original bluestone flagstone sidewalk remain.
1882/00/00 Frederick Aldhous Developer The Imperial, a brownstone apartment building built for developer Frederick Aldhous, opens. A 8 room apartment rents for $100 a month. Rise of Luxury Apartment Buildings in Manhattan
1883/00/00 The Real Estate Chronicle tells readers about The Imperial's fireproofing, safety devices on the open-cage elevator and kitchens with ventilating iceboxes on the outside walls, so that "a supply of cold air may be admitted from the exterior."
1905/00/00 William Buhler buys the Dorincourt and advertises that the building has electric lighting, telephones in the apartments, all-night elevator service, an iron and glass marquee above the entrance and "door boys".
1920/00/00 Twenty or so tenants buy the building for $170,000 and convert it into a co-op.
1930/00/00 William R Barnes Home The census records that co-op owner William R Barnes' apartment is valued at $15,000.

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Particulars for The Imperial Apartments:
Area of Significance Architecture
Sight Category Building
Owner Private
Area of Significance Social History




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