11 West 54th Street

Manhattan, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

At 11 West 54th Street in Midtown Manhattan stands a four-and-a-half-story double house designed by the prominent firm McKim, Mead & White and constructed between 1896 and 1898. Built in the Georgian Revival style, the limestone and brick facade features rusticated blocks on the ground floor and Flemish bond brick above. Originally erected as a private residence for businessman James Junius Goodwin—a cousin and business partner of J. P. Morgan—the building functioned as a double house, with the larger unit at number 11 serving as Goodwin's secondary residence while he maintained his primary home in Connecticut, and the smaller unit at number 9 rented to tenants. One of five consecutive townhouses built along the block during the 1890s, the structure later housed the Inter-America House and the Museum of Modern Art before becoming the home of Rhodes Preparatory School from 1949. Designated a New York City Landmark in 1981 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, it remains a significant example of late-nineteenth-century Manhattan residential architecture.

Architect

McKim, Mead & White

Movement

Colonial Revival architecture

Built: 1898
Type: commercial building, office building
Heritage: New York City Landmark, National Register of Historic Places contributing property
Place: Manhattan, United States

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