Duke House and the Making of Modern New York

Jean-Louis Cohen is the Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. Trained as an architect and an art historian in Paris, Cohen has curated many exhibitions and published more than forty books.Daniella Berman is an art historian and curator specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art. Trained at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts, Berman has contributed to various exhibitions and their publications including Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022).Jon Ritter is Clinical Professor in the Department of Art History, Urban Design and Architecture at New York University. President of the Society of Architectural Historian’s New York Chapter, Ritter holds a doctorate from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts.

• AcknowledgmentsContributorsIntroductionJean-Louis Cohen, Daniella Berman, and Jon RitterPortfolio: Duke HouseMaps: Mansions on the Upper East Side1 The City Beautiful, Zoning, and Preservation on New York’s Upper East SideJon Ritter2 A “Gilded Stall” for the Progressive Era: Fabricating Aristocracy on Fifth AvenueMatthew Worsnick3 Building in “Splendid Style”: Duke House and the Development of the Cook BlockAlisa Chiles4 Beaux-Arts Architects and Their MansionsIsabelle Gournay5 Mr. Duke Builds His Dream HouseMosette Broderick6 “Good Taste” and the Making of Duke House: Francophilia, Architecture, and AdaptationDaniella Berman7 Commissioning Interiors: Carlhian and Duveen at Duke HouseGrace Chuang8 Dukes to Profs: Robert Venturi’s primum opus on 78th StreetJean-Louis Cohen9 Renovation and Illumination: Richard Kelly at the InstituteChristie Mitchell10 Preservation on the Cook Block: An Architect’s PerspectiveTheodore PrudonSelect BibliographyList of IllustrationsIndex of Persons and OrganizationsIndex of Buildings and Places