Barbara Rutherford Hatch House
single-family detached home in New York City, New York
The Barbara Rutherford Hatch House is a residential building at 153 East 63rd Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, US. It was constructed between 1917 and 1919. It was designed by Frederick J. Sterner and patterned after a French Renaissance-style chateau. The house is three stories high, with a stucco facade, red-tile roof, and interior courtyard.
Originally built for Barbara Cairncross Rutherfurd and Cyril Hatch, it has been occupied over the years by the producer Charles Dillingham, the engineer Charles Lawrance, the performer Gypsy Rose Lee, the artist Jasper Johns, and the filmmaker Spike Lee. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places both individually and as a contributing property to the Upper East Side Historic District, and it is also a New York City designated landmark.
Description
The Hatch House is located at 153 East 63rd Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, US. The house occupies a site measuring 100 by 32 feet (30.5 m × 9.8 m) wide. It was designed by Frederick Sterner in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, with elements of the Italian Renaissance. The Hatch House was Sterner's second commission on the block, after his own house at 154 West 63rd Street. After completing these two buildings, Sterner designed other buildings in a similar style; the architectural historian Christopher Gray wrote that Sterner had "succeeded in almost completely Mediterraneanizing the block". The Barbara Rutherford Hatch House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983 and is a New York City designated landmark since 1977.
“Barbara Rutherford Hatch House” enters the record as single-family detached home in New York City, New York. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Barbara, Rutherford and Hatch can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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