The Dakota: A History of the World's Best-Known Apartment Building Format:Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-0486451046

ISBN-13: 978-0486451046

The houses featured including a centuries-old home for a president as well as recently built residences present a stylish traditional aesthetic hallmarks of which include warm wood-paneled libraries plaster walls hung with paintings of horse riding scenes classical motifs lovingly wrought architectural detail screened porches large windows that frame inspiring vistas of the country landscape—all those things that say home to the country and suburban gentleman and gentlewoman

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The Dakota: A History of the World's Best-Known Apartment Building Format:Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-0486451046The Dakota is arguably the best known residential address in the world home to dozens of New York City's most famous artists performers and successful executives. The rare sale of an apartment there usually at jaw dropping prices is newsworthy as is the financial and architectural health of the building itself a landmark in every sense of the word. The first true luxury apartment house built in New York City more than 130 years ago the Dakota is still