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The Dakota, also known as the Dakota Apartments, is a cooperative apartment building at 1 West 72nd Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The Dakota was constructed between 1880 and 1884 in the German Renaissance style and was designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh for businessman Edward Cabot Clark.
Apr 24, 2017 · April 24, 2017. Photo: Ullstein Bild / Getty Images. For years dubbed the “most famous apartment building in New York City,” the Dakota has a spot in cultural history—film, celebrity, art ...
- Carrie Hojnicki
In his new book The Dakota: A History of the World's Best-Known Apartment Building (h/t Bloomberg), author Andrew Alpern digs deep into the legendary building's past and its rise in status to ...
Nov 9, 2015 · November 9, 2015. An early image of the Dakota in the then sparsely developed Upper West Side. Built in the late 1880s, the Dakota was one of the first luxury apartment buildings in New York, and ...
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The Dakota Apartment Building is much more than the place where ex-Beatle John Lennon was killed. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871forever influenced building and design throughout the United States, and construction of what would become "The Dakota" was no exception. Plans submitted to build a "Family Hotel" west of Central Park included fireproof st...
Soaring 10 stories high, The Dakota was an impressive structure when it was built. Architect Henry J. Hardenbergh instilled the building with the romanticism of the German Renaissance style. The yellow brick is trimmed with carved Nova Scotia freestone, terra cotta spandrels, cornices, and other ornamentation. Architectural details include bay and ...
The Dakota is not a skyscraper and does not use the "new" method of building with a steel framework. However, iron beams along with concrete and fireproof fill, were used for partitions and flooring. Developers submitted plans for a fortress-like building: 1. the foundation walls—of "Blue stone laid in cement mortar"—would be 3-4 feet thick 2. the ...
Probably not. Each multi-roomed apartment sells for millions of dollars. But it's not just the money. Even multi-millionaires like Billy Joel and Madonna have been rejected by the co-operative apartment board in charge of operating the building. The Dakota has also been charged with elitism and racism, leading to multiple legal woes. Read more at C...
- Jackie Craven
Feb 22, 2015 · The Dakota Apartments were New York's first luxury apartments, built by Singer Sewing Machine's Edward S. Clark and designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh (of Plaza Hotel fame). It was named the Dakota, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, because Clark's colleagues teased him that if he built it a few blocks further away he could.
The Dakota, also known as the Dakota Apartments, is a cooperative apartment building at 1 West 72nd Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The Dakota was constructed between 1880 and 1884 in the German Renaissance style and was designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh for businessman Edward Cabot Clark. The building was one of the first large developments on ...
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