Dakota Apartments, ca. 1975. Considered the city’s first luxury apartment building, the Dakota Apartments were constructed between 1880 and 1884 and designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh for the real estate investor Edward Clark. The imposing German Renaissance style structure was an architectural revelation at the time when the Upper West Side was largely barren, far from the bustling downtown centre of New York City at the time. At eight stories, with 65 apartments (no two of them alike), the building featured a number of desirable and innovative amenities meant to lure prospective tenants who were unaccustomed to the idea of luxurious multi-family buildings. (Rich people in early 19th century New York lived nearly exclusively in single-family private mansions.) Some of these comforts included apartments of up to 16 rooms, newfangled service elevators, and uber quiet living spaces created by heavy interior partitions and double think concrete floors. The Dakota was long thought to be the “most famous apartment building in New York City,” (though perhaps that superlative has changed in the era of the supertalls, like 432 Park). It was well-known as the home of celebrities, most notably John Lennon and Yoko Ono. The Dakota is also a major plot device in the 1980 novel "Time and Again," in which the building proves to be a portal for time travel to historic New York.

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Dakota Apartments ARCHITECT: Henry J. Hardenbergh DATE: 1880-84 STYLE: German Renaissance Clearly unique in its architectural character in New York, the Dakota, the City’s first luxury apartment house, continue s to be a conversation piece. This imposing structure of eight stories with attic reflects the romanticism of the German Renaissance style and combines a superb blend of formalism and picturesqueness into a unified composition, with dignity and serenity. The design of each elevation is treated in an individual manner, without repetition or symmetry inhibiting the free use of a historical style. Monumental in scale and impressive in appearance, this building, massively constructed of yellow colored brick with stone trim and terra cotta ornament, has the indestructible quality and undeniable grandeur reminiscent of a large, European chateau. It was designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh, who later designed the Plaza Hotel .

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Dakota Apartments The first of the great super-block apartments with central drive-in courtyard, this building was virtually without precedent. It was designed in the early eighteen-eighties by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh in the high manner of the nineteenth-century German Renaissance. He would later design the Plaza Hotel.