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Dakota : A History of the World's Best-Known Apartment Building by Andrew Alpern (2015, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPrinceton Architectural Press
ISBN-101616894377
ISBN-139781616894375
eBay Product ID (ePID)210301337
Product Key Features
Book TitleDakota : a History of the World's Best-Known Apartment Building
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicBuildings / Residential, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa)
IllustratorYes
GenreTravel, Architecture
AuthorAndrew Alpern
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight43.4 Oz
Item Length11.3 in
Item Width8.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2015-016581
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"The Dakota: A History of the World's Best-Known Apartment Building is a historical and architectural history, deliberately eschewing the gossip that could easily fill the pages of a book with such a name." - Untapped Cities, "The list of features included in historian Andrew Alpern's book, 'The Dakota: A History of the Worlds Best-Known Apartment Building, would make the average New Yorker weep: tennis courts, marble staircases, oak- and mahogany-paneled dining rooms, 14-foot ceilings, ornate fireplaces, and, of course, those Central Park views. The book is loaded with original floor plans, historic images of the interiors, and profiles of the building's many notable residents through the years." - Bloomberg, "The list of features included in historian Andrew Alpern's book, 'The Dakota: A History of the Worlds Best-Known Apartment Building, would make the average New Yorker weep: tennis courts, marble staircases, oak- and mahogany-paneled dining rooms, 14-foot ceilings, ornate fireplaces, and, of course, those Central Park views. The book is loaded with original floor plans, historic images of the interiors, and profiles of the building's many notable residents through the years." - Bloomberg -- -, "The Dakota: A History of the World's Best-Known Apartment Building is a historical and architectural history, deliberately eschewing the gossip that could easily fill the pages of a book with such a name." - Untapped Cities -- -, "Andrew Alpern, a lawyer turned architectural historian, has written a book for the outsider who longs to gain access to the marble halls of the inside...its pages are consecrated to details that allow the reader to reconstruct the Dakota from its foundation to its roof terrace in his or her imagination." - The New Republic -- -, "The Dakota is a serious, but equally compelling, book that chronicles all about the nuts and bolts of how the building at 1 West 72nd Street came about: its construction; how it changed the face of Manhattan's Upper West Side and its renovations over the years." - Brick Underground -- -, "Andrew Alpern, a lawyer turned architectural historian, has written a book for the outsider who longs to gain access to the marble halls of the inside...its pages are consecrated to details that allow the reader to reconstruct the Dakota from its foundation to its roof terrace in his or her imagination." - The New Republic, "The Dakota is a serious, but equally compelling, book that chronicles all about the nuts and bolts of how the building at 1 West 72nd Street came about: its construction; how it changed the face of Manhattan's Upper West Side and its renovations over the years." - Brick Underground
Dewey Edition23
Photographed byGrant, Kenneth G.
Dewey Decimal728/.314097471
SynopsisThe Dakota is arguably the best-known residential address in the world, home to dozens of New York City's most famous artists, performers, and successful executives. The rare sale of an apartment there, usually at jaw-dropping prices, is newsworthy, as is the financial and architectural health of the building itself, a landmark in every sense of the word. The first true luxury apartment house built in New York City, more than 130 years ago, the Dakota is still the gold standard against which all other apartment buildings are weighed. Historian Andrew Alpern tells the fascinating story of how the Dakota came to be, how Singer sewing magnate Edward Clark dared to build an apartment building luxurious enough to coax the city's wealthy from their mansions downtown for ultra-modern living on what was then the swamplands of the Upper West Side. Redrawn plans of the entire building, published here for the first time, show how Clark created apartments glamorous enough that they made living under a shared roof as acceptable in Manhattan as it already was in Europe's grand capitals, forever revolutionizing apartment life in New York City. This internationally renowned building is now accessible to us all at least in print, if not in its ultraprivate and well-guarded reality.", The Dakota is arguably the best-known residential address in the world, home to dozens of New York City's most famous artists, performers, and successful executives. The rare sale of an apartment there, usually at jaw-dropping prices, is newsworthy, as is the financial and architectural health of the building itself, a landmark in every sense of the word. The first true luxury apartment house built in New York City, more than 130 years ago, the Dakota is still the gold standard against which all other apartment buildings are weighed. Historian Andrew Alpern tells the fascinating story of how the Dakota came to be, how Singer sewing magnate Edward Clark dared to build an apartment building luxurious enough to coax the city's wealthy from their mansions downtown for ultra-modern living on what was then the swamplands of the Upper West Side. Redrawn plans of the entire building, published here for the first time, show how Clark created apartments glamorous enough that they made living under a shared roof as acceptable in Manhattan as it already was in Europe's grand capitals, forever revolutionizing apartment life in New York City. This internationally renowned building is now accessible to us all--at least in print, if not in its ultraprivate and well-guarded reality.
LC Classification NumberNA7862.N5A47 2015
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- Oct 25, 2021
SIMPLY AWESOME !
If you are a fan of The Dakota this is a must have...INDISPENSABLE!!!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- May 27, 2024
Item was perfect, new in plastic
Item was perfect, new in plasticVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Jul 24, 2023
Information I did not know.
Very interesting.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- Oct 31, 2016
Wonderful
Fascinating book about a remarkable apartment. Couldn't put it down...Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
