Built in the 1760s by Prince Miklós Esterházy, the palace consists of an eleven-bay facade flanked on the park side by two five-bay wings.  Set in an 800 acre park with numerous dependencies including a theater, miniature temples and a Riding Stable.  On behalf of the World Monuments Fund in conjunction with the Hungarian National Board for the Protection of Historic Monuments (OMvH), preparation of an investigation, historical research, drawings and feasibility studies for the conservation and adaptation of Esterháza as a music academy, museum, learning facility for musical related craftsmanship and a hotel for guests of the academy for the European Mozart Academy.

A contextual row of five new townhouses to be built in a historic district in the lower part of Manhattan                            

Restoration of a mid-19th century Romanesque Revival Mews house on Sniffen Court, a stable complex perpendicular to East 36th Street. 

Landmarks Preservation Commission approval.  

Restoration and conservation of the exterior of the Jefferson Market Library.  Designed by Calvert Vaux & Frederick Withers in an neo-Venetian Gothic style and constructed in 1874 in an asymmetrical form with polychromatic materials, pinnacles, gables and stained glass windows. The building originally was used as a Courthouse, it was adapted into a library in 1967.The 172-foot pyramidal turret with clocks on all four sides once served as a fire watch tower with an alarm bell. 

Image: © The New York Public Library

Research, investigation and preparation of an Historic Structure Report of the Chrysler Building lobby which determined the original configuration, lighting systems and missing elements as initially designed by William Van Alen in 1928.  The report lead to the designation of the lobby as an individual New York City landmark by the Landmarks Preservation Commission and averted a proposed modernization.

Research and investigation to determine the original design and layout of the Chrysler Building Observatory with the intent of re-opening it to the public.

Lobby Photo: Tishman Speyer

130 Liberty Street was a 39 story skyscraper designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and constructed in 1974. The building was heavily damaged during the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. Determination of the current New York City Zoning & Building Code provisions as they relate to the reconstruction, repair and restoration of 130 Liberty Street after September 11, 2001.

Adaptation of the 31st floor of 14 Wall Street into the La Tour D'Or restaurant. 14 Wall Street was designed by Trowbridge & Livingston in a classical revival style and constructed in 1912 as the headquarters for the Bankers Trust Company. The stepped pyramid at the top became the logo for Bankers Trust. The 31st floor is surrounded on four sides by terraces.

During the adaptation, Trowbridge & Livingston's plan for the 31st floor were unearthed, The plan, as revised on April 15, 1910, show a large office, an apartment with a living room, two bedrooms and a bath and a further apartment with two bedrooms, a small dining room, a small living room and a large kitchen which may have been a planned executive suite. There have been reports that J. Pierpont Morgan had an apartment on the 31st floor, but the Landmarks Preservation Commission Designation Report states that "J.P. Morgan & Company canceled its plans to move to the 31st floor".

Conservation of the exterior, restoration of the interior and adaptation of  the American Bank Note Company Building into a club/restaurant building.  Designed by Kirby, Petit & Green, Architects in a neo-Classical Style and constructed in 1908 with a granite and smooth ashlar stone facade.  The American Bank Note Company was one of America's most prominent producers of bank notes, stamps, stock certificates and letters of credit.  They reinforced their powerful position to the public by constructing a low-rise building in the skyscraper dominated Financial District.

Advancement of Landmarks Preservation Commission designation and approval of the work.  Preparation of a National Register nomination and research and documentation to enable the Landmarks Conservancy to accept a preservation easement.

In conjunction with Conrad Engineers, renovation of three Nineteenth century tenement buildings in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 48 hours.  A demonstration project funded by the Department of Housing & Urban Development to explore the application of prefabrication technology to deteriorated urban housing to reduce the costs of construction and eliminate relocation costs.  Preassembled bathroom and kitchen units were fabricated on a pier in the East River of Manhattan, trucked to the site and stacked, one on top of another. Prefinished material was placed on scaffolding around the buildings.  The tenants were temporarily housed in hotels and their furnishings placed in vans. Work was performed without interruption. After 48 hours the tenants returned to their completely renovated homes.

The Schermerhorn Row block was built in 1812 as a single monumental complex of Federal style mercantile buildings.  It is on an entire city block and had a uniform design fronting on four streets; it was New York's earliest and largest entrepreneurial development.
The Schermerhorn Row remains as the largest and best preserved group of buildings of its type and the most intact waterfront structure from the early Republic.  During the past two centuries changes altered the appearance of the unified block including, in 1955, the removal of the corner of Burling Slip and South Street.
In 1992, the Office of Joseph Pell Lombardi, Architect was commissioned by the South Street Seaport Museum and the New York State Maritime Museum to reconstruct the missing corner at Burling Slip and South Street for use as a Center for International Maritime History with an emphasis on early immigration at the Seaport and its link to European and Asian ports.

The project has not yet been realized.

Stabilization and conservation work on damage incurred October 29, 2012 by Hurricane Sandy at 130 Beekman Street, an assemblage of three early turn of the 19th century masonry mercantile buildings. Erected in 1827, 231 Water Street still features its fluted cast iron columns with palmetta capitals at the ground floor. Its pitched roof, narrow lot and Flemish bond make it a fine example of the Seaport's "counting house" style, which originated in English seaport cities. The buildings were originally occupied by ship chandlers, sail makers and merchants.

Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interior of a Federal townhouse in the Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District including the garden.

Fit out of a 4,200 s.f. apartment in a new building on the 11th floor overlooking the city. The design combines two apartments into one apartment with north and south terraces and a double height atrium living room.

Conservation of the exterior of a bank building in the TriBeCa East Historic District. Designed by Walker & Gillette, Architects, in a Modernist Style and constructed in 1927 with a limestone facade.  

Landmarks Preservation Commission approval

Landmarks Preservation Commission approval for the 1994 restoration of the exterior of the Haughwout Building, a five story store and loft building in the SoHo District.  Designed by John Gaynor, Architect, in a Venetian neo-Renaissnace Style and constructed in 1857 with cast iron components from Daniel Badger's Architectural Iron Works.

The arched windows, set between fluted Corinthian columns with underlying balustrades are reminiscient of those on Jacopo Sansovino's library on the Piazzetta di San Marco in Venice.    Conservation work included the repair of the cast iron components, replacement of missing elements, reconfiguration, installation of the historic first floor infill in accordance with original drawings and repainting in the historic colors based upon paint analysis.

Designed by George B. Post, Architect, in a Romanesque Revival style and built in 1890 in an Italianate Style with a rough-faced brownstone ashlar base and a brick and brownstone facade with cast iron elements.Preparation of a Historic Structure Report. Board of Standards & Appeals approval. 

Preparation of a Historic Structure Report. Conservation of the exterior and restoration, in conjunction with the decorator Robert Couturier, of the interiors of a two family townhouse back to its original one family configuration. Built in 1855 in an Italianate Style with a brick and brownstone facade, the townhouse is in the Greenwich Village Historic District. 

Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interior of a house in the Greenwich Village Historic District. Part of a row of six brick houses, each four stories high and constructed in 1847 in a vernacular version of the late Greek Revival Style. 434 Hudson Street maintains its original storefront.  

Landmarks Preservation Commission approval.

Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interiors of an 1827 Federal Townhouse with a Greek Revival addition in the Greenwich Village Historic District.  

Landmarks Preservation Commission approval.

Conservation of the exterior, addition of a set back penthouse addition, restoration of the storefronts, removal of the fire escape and upgrading of the residential units of a four story dwelling in the Greenwich Village Historic District. Built in 1829 as part of a row of four three-story dwellings with ground floor stores, the fourth floor was added in the late nineteenth century.

Conservation of the exterior and conversion of the interior of a three story commercial building in the Greenwich Village Historic District into a one family home and store. Built in 1839 and remodeled at the beginning of the 20th century into its present appearance. 

Landmarks Preservation Commission approval.

Restoration of the interiors and the addition of a set back fourth floor of a three-story townhouse in the Greenwich Village Historic District.  Designed in a Transitional Style between the Federal and Greek Revival Styles, it was constructed in 1840 with a brick facade as a part of a row of townhouses.

Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interiors of a four-story and basement townhouse in the Greenwich Village Historic District.  Designed in a Transitional Style between the Greek Revival and Italianate Styles, it was constructed in 1846 with a brownstone facade as a part of a pair of townhouses which included 20 West 12th Street.

232 West 15th Street

Conservation of the exterior and renovation of the interior of a Greek Revival townhouse in Chelsea including the installation of a 26' long by 8 foot deep swimming pool in the Basement level with a two story high ceiling.

129 East 17th Street

Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interior of five-story apartment house in the Gramercy Park Historic District.  Designed by Napolean LeBrun, Architect, in a French Gothic Style and constructed in 1879 with a red brick and brownstone facade, it is the oldest apartment house in New York.

Landmarks Preservation Commission approval. 

Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interior of two four-story townhouses in the Gramercy Park Historic District.  Designed by in a Renaissance Revival Style and constructed in 1892 with a brownstone facade.

Landmarks Preservation Commission and Historic Investment Tax Credit approvals. 

Restoration and conservation of seven Greek Revival Style townhouses constructed in the 1870s including interiors, exteriors and gardens.

Conservation of the eclectic 1938 facade and restoration of the interior of a four-story townhouse in the Murray Hill Historic District. Built by Samuel W. Cronk in an Italianate Style and constructed in 1853 with a brownstone facade and an English basement plan as part of a row of four houses at 105 to 111 East 35th Street. It was altered in 1938  with the addition of keystones at the basement level and statuary and carved panels on the upper part of the facade. 

Restoration and conservation, including obtaining a zoning variance from the Board of Standards & Appeals, of the Mary Lincoln Isham House, a Georgian Revival brick with stone trim townhouse.  Designed by Ralph S. Townsend, Architect, and constructed in 1902.  Purchased in 1906 by Charles and Mary Lincoln Isham.  Mary Lincoln Isham was the granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln and daughter of Robert Todd Lincoln, the only adult son of Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of War under President Garfield.

Restoration and conservation of the exteriors and interiors of three six-story townhouses in the Upper East Side Historic District including the addition of set-back penthouses at #12 & #16. Originally designed by Breen & Nason, Architects, as a row of eight townhouses in a neo-Renaissance Style and constructed in 1879 with brownstone facades.  Completely reconfigured in 1916 by Harry Allen Jacobs, Architect, in a neo-French Classic style with limestone facades. 

Landmarks Preservation Commission  approval and  Historic Investment Tax Credit.

Historic Photograph courtesy on the City of New York

Restoration and conservation of the exterior and interior of a five-story townhouse in the Upper East Side Historic District. Originally designed by Breen & Nason, Architects, as a row of eight townhouses in a neo-Renaissance Style and constructed in 1879 with a brownstone facade. The lower three floors were reconfigured in 1903 by Henry Pelton, Architect, with the addition of a loggia with Doric columns and a iron railing on the third floor.  

Landmarks Preservation Commission  approval and  Historic Investment Tax Credit.

Historic Photograph courtesy of the City of New York

The Eldorado was designed by Emery Roth in an Art Deco Style and constructed in 1931.

Historical and archaeological investigation followed by a conservation of the finishes of the Eldorado lobby.

Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interiors of a Queen Anne Style townhouse in the Henderson Place Historic District. Designed by Lamb & Rich, Architects, and built in 1881. Henderson Place consists of quaint townhouses designed with characteristics of the Elizabethan manor house combined with Flemish and classic detail, built at one time and retaining much of their picturesque charm and original character of the eighteen-eighties. 6 Henderson Street is located at the corner of the mews street.  

Preparation of an analysis, drawings and specifications for the reinstatement of the principal rooms as they existed in the first part of the 20th century.  Designed by Robert W. Gibson and C.P.H. Gilbert. Architects, in a neo-Renaissance Style and built in 1905 with a marble and stone facade for Morton Freeman Plant.  The house was bought by Cartier in 1917. William Welles Bosworth, Architect, reconfigured the interior and  installed paneled selling rooms on the first and second floors.

Conversion of a Consolidated Edison Power Station into a recording studio complex including the installation of wood-lined acoustical recording studios.

Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interior of a four-story townhouse in the Upper West Side Historic District.  Designed by Thom & Wilson, Architects, in a Renaissance Revival Style and constructed in 1892 with a brownstone facade as part of a row of four townhouses. 

322 West 71st Street

Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interior of a three-story and basement townhouse in the West 71st Street Historic District on a cul-de-sac.  Designed by Arthur J. Horgan, Architect, in a Renaissance Revival Style and constructed in 1894 with a brownstone facade and a metal cornice as part of a row of three townhouses.

Conservation and restoration of a 10 room 1929 apartment for a college president at 101 Central Park West. Designed by Schwartz & Gross in a Neo-Renaissance Style and constructed in 1929.

In conjunction with Mark Hampton, interior decorator, conservation and renovation of a 12 room, full floor, terraced apartment as originally designed by Rosario Candela in 1928.

Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interior of a four-story and basement townhouse in the Upper West Side - Central Park WestHistoric District.  Designed by George M. Walgrove, Architect, in a Renaissance Revival Style and constructed in 1890 with a brownstone facade and a metal cornice as part of a row of eight townhouses.

Conservation of the exteriors and restoration of the interiors of two three-story and basement townhouses in the Upper West Side Historic District.  Designed by Rafael Gustavino, Architect, in a Moorish Revival Style, inside and out, and constructed in 1885 with brick, stone, terra-cotta and ironwork facades as part of a row of six townhouses.  

Conservation of the exterior, restoration of the interior and conversion back to a one family house of a five-story townhouse in the Riverside Drive-West 80th-81st Street Historic District.  Designed by Clarence True, Architect, in an Elizabethan Renaissance Revival Style, and constructed with a limestone facade in 1897 as part of a row of seven townhouses.  

Conservation of the exterior, interior and furnishings of the five and one-half story and basement American Irish Historical Society Headquarters including an investigation of the history of the building. 
Designed by Turner and Lillian, Architects, in a Beaux Arts Style and constructed in 1900 with a red brick and limestone trim facade and a slate mansard roof. In 1901, the noted architectural critic Montgomery Schuyler called the house "exemplary". In 1906 the second owner, David Crawford Clark, commissioned Ogden Codman, Jr., the celebrated interior designer, architect and author, to decorate and reconfigure the interiors including the installation of a classically-inspired Entrance Hall and Stair Hall.
Conservation, repair and cleaning of the exterior, finish analysis of the interior and reinstatement of original finishes in the important public rooms, furniture inventory and identification of their origin in relationship to the building and adaptation of secondary areas for the use by the Society. Preparation of an Historic Property Report.  
The building has been owned by the American Irish Historical Society since 1940.
Landmarks Preservation Commission approval.

Reconstruction of a 1929 ten room apartment after extensive fire damage, Conservation and restoration of the original details. One East End Avenue was designed by Pennington & Lewis and constructed in 1929.

Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interior of a three-story and basement townhouse in the Upper West Side Historic District. Originally a one family house, conversion from a rooming house to a two family house.  

Designed by Neville & Bagge, Architect, in a Renaissance Revival Style and constructed in 1894 with a brownstone facade and a metal cornice as part of a row of four townhouses. 

Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interior of a three-story and basement townhouse in the Upper West Side Historic District. Originally a one family house, conversion from a rooming house to a two family house.
Designed by McDowell & Henry, Architect, Builders & Developers, in a Renaissance Revival Style with Romanesque Revival elements and constructed in 1890 with a sandstone facade and a metal cornice as part of a row of six townhouses. 

Conservation and restoration of a 1928 ten room apartment. 336 Central Park West was designed by Schwartz & Gross in an Art Deco Style with Egyptian-inspired elements and constructed in 1928.

Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interior of an 1842 Federal Style three-story and basement townhouse in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.

Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interior of an 1864 Italianate Style three-story and basement townhouse in the Fort Greene Historic District. Built by Lawrence Kane as part of a row of six townhouses with brownstone facades and ornamentation.  

Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interior of a 19th century three-story and basement townhouse in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.  

Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interior of a 19th century three-story and basement one family townhouse in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.  

Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interior of a 19th century three-story and basement townhouse in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.

Consultation services for the conservation of the Bailey Residence. Individually designated by the Landmark Preservation Commission, the 1887 Bailey Residence was built in 1887 for James Anthony Bailey, partner in the famed Barnum & Bailey Circus.  This Romanesque Revival house was designed by Samuel B. Reed, Architect.  It is one of the last free standing houses in Manhattan. The remarkably intact exterior and interior are being conserved.

Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interior of the Brooklyn Botanical Garden Children's House adjacent to the Children's Garden. Designed by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White in 1917 to serve as an auxiliary building to the Children's Garden, where each child planned, planted, tended and harvested his or her own vegetables in an individual plot. 
Past a wood trellis entry gate, the  building contains a front entry porch, a classroom for rainy day instructions, flower arranging and cooking demonstrations, a tool room for storage of children's tools, a cooking pantry, a locker room and a rear assembly porch.
A typical planting day consisted of the smallest child riding to the Garden House in a wheelbarrow. As the children approached the House, a flag would be raised and the children would enter through the trellis gate and go to their garden plots where they would find their tools laid out.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Preparation of a National Register application confirming a contributing building and obtaining an Historic Investment Tax Credit for a 90,000sf seven story factory building being converted to residential use in the DUMBO Historic District of the Brooklyn waterfront.

Designed by Benjamin Finkensieper, Architect for Robert Gair, in an American Round Arch style and constructed with a brick  facade with stone lintels and sills, cast-iron tie rods and a pressed metal cornice in 1887.

Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interior, including the reinstatement of the matching carriage house and the Gothic Style library, of an English neo-Gothic house in New York State overlooking the Hudson River.  Constructed in cut granite stone in 1863 for a prominent 19th century industrialist.

Palazzo Cappello-Memmo is on the Greci Canal in Venice. It is an early 16th century Renaissance style Palazzo decorated with Lombardesque details. On behalf of the World Monuments Fund, analysis of  the feasibility of adapting the Palazzo into housing for Venetians in conjunction with a Vivaldi Museum as part of the Church of the Pieta complex.

Preparation of a Historic Structure Report for Woodcliff,  a two and one-half story brick neo-Classical house probably built at the end of the 18th century and altered, in 1865, into a Gothic Revival Style.

For the County of Westchester, historical research and a Historic Structure Report including mechanical and structural analyses and recommendations for stabilization, conservation and continuing maintenance of Ingleside in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Overlooking the Hudson River, it was built in 1854 by Edwin B. Strange, a silk importer. Ingleside was designed in a Gothic Revival style by Alexander Jackson Davis, the pre-eminent American architect of picturesque villas with Gothic revival detailing. 

Images courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art & Columbia University.

Preparation of a Historic Structure Report, analysis of the period furnishings and the identification and determination of the location of the outbuildings of the June Farm. Constructed in a Greek Revival style in 1846 by John J. June, a partner in the June, Titus & Angevine Circus.

Conservation of the exterior, interior and adaptation as a museum for the Scarsdale Historical Society of the Cudner-Hyatt House.  The original building was built in 1734 and 1754 and raised to two stories in 1836.

Conservation and adaptation of the 1865/1880 Carriage House/Stable Complex into a Visitors Orientation Center, carriage display and catering facility, construction of a new Service Building using precedents found at the Wagon Shed to house the relocated Carpentry Shop and documentation of the free-standing 1894 Bowling Alley and the 1911 Swimming Pool Buildings in a Historic American Buildings Survey format.

Lyndhurst, a property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is a 19th century estate overlooking the Hudson River shaped by the Paulding, Merritt and Gould families, between 1838 and 1961. The main house and the Carriage House Stable were designed by Alexander Jackson Davis, one of America's most influential architects, in a Gothic Style set in picturesque landscape with numerous outbuildings.

Stabilization, conservation and placement on the National Register of Historic Places of the Mt. Zion Meeting House in Somers, New York. Initially constructed by Micajah Wright, a local carpenter and farmer, in 1794 in a vernacular Federal Style. A second story was added and the building overlaid with Greek Revival Style detailing in the 19th century. A gallery overlooks the pulpit on three sides.
The Mt. Zion Meeting House is the oldest Methodist Meeting House in Westchester County. Its simplicity is reflective of traditional Methodist buildings as mandated by Bishop Francis Asbury who proclaimed, "let all our chapels be built plain and decent, but no more expensive than is absolutely unavoidable". The original setting, on top of a hill surrounded on three sides by gravestones dating back to 1797, is maintained.

Research and on-site investigation to determine the date, original appearance and configuration of Glenaylie, a 1905 Dutch Revival house and a Pre-Revolutionary War farmhouse on the Hubbard Estate. 

Glenaylie was built in 1905 by Dr. & Mrs. Campbell.

The Pre-Revolutionary War farmhouse was built by a tenant farmer on land leased from Frederick Philipse the owner of a vast manor stretching form Spuyten Duyvil to the Croton River.

Pre-Revolutionary War farmhouse on the Hubbard Estate

Pre-Revolutionary War Sherwood House in Yonkers, NY

Another example of a tenant farmhouse on the Philipse Manor

Research and on-site investigation to determine the date, original appearance and configuration of a four-over-four Georgian House built on land directly on the Hudson River in 1799 by Henry Van Schaack.  

Preparation of a Historic Structure Report for The Octagon in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland.

The Octagon was designed in an Italianate Style by Thomas Dixon, Architect in the octagonal shape advocated by Orson Squire Fowler in his book, "The Octagon House, A Home For All". It was built in 1855 and used first as the Mount Washington Female College and subsequently as Mount Saint Agnes Academy.

Ocean Beach House