Stanford White's house for Payne Whitney in New York City - architect

Magazine Antiques, Oct, 2002 by Jenil Sandberg

(31.) Undated account pages, probably June 1907 (ibid.). After the deaths of Payne and Helen Hay Whitney, in 1927 and 1944, respectively, the majority of the furnishings were sold at auction by Parke-Bernet Galleries in February 1946. See "Auction This Week at Whitney Home," New York Times, February 3, 1946, p. 34; "Art Yields $31,119 in Whitney Mansion," ibid., February 7, 1946, p. 15; and "Whitney Sale Ends with $101,386 Total," ibid., February 8, 1946, p. 17.

(32.) McKim, Mead and White, A Monograph of the Works of McKim, Mead and White, 1879-1915 (Architectural Book Publishing Company, New York, 1915), vol. 3, Pls. 289-292. The house was also published in Architecture, vol. 21 (April 15, 1910), pp. 52-55; and in "A Handsome Town House," Town and Country, vol. 66 (October 14, 1911), pp. 32-33.

(33.) Hewlett, "Stanford White, Decorator," pp. 160-179.

(34.) "Models of American Interior Decoration," Good Furniture, vol. 11 (October 1918), p. 198

JENI L. SANDBERG is the director of American furniture and decorative arts at Doyle New York.