LUXURY APARTMENT HOUSES OF MANHATTAN: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY

In this handsome, lavishly illustrated volume, a noted New York architect and architectural historian provides detailed and thoughtful mini-histories of a roster of apartment houses that cater to the well-to-do. Included are such stately residential structures as the Gramercy, the dowager queen of co-op apartments, the fashionably flamboyant Ansonia, the dramatic Hotel des Artistes and the classical, triple-towered Beresford. Also documented here are Joseph Pulitzer's palatial residence, designed by McKim, Mead and White, magnficent Park Avenue apartments, including a multi-floored maisonette apartment once desired by Imelda Marcos, and scores of other luxurious lodgings.