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Upper East Side Carriage House

Upper East Side Carriage House In 1915, the architecture firm of Delano & Aldrich completed an Upper East Side mansion for prominent New York couple Willard and Dorothy Straight. Two years later, the firm designed their carriage house a few blocks away. This service building was originally used..

Chelsea Townhouse

Chelsea Townhouse On the west side of Manhattan is the fashionable neighborhood of Chelsea, the center of New York City’s art world and home to a classic townhouse on West 19th Street. This brick structure was built in 1901 and underwent a near-gut renovation before DHD completed a top-to-bottom ..

Park Slope Mansion

Park Slope Mansion At the edge of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park stands a Gilded Age mansion designed by architect Montrose W. Morris. Built in 1899, the neoclassical limestone structure adds a sense of grandeur to the quiet, family-oriented neighborhood of Park Slope. The home’s original interiors r..

West Village Townhouse

West Village Townhouse New York City’s West Village has a reputation as being the cradle of bohemian culture and for possessing a one-of-a-kind architectural charm. One of the neighborhood’s quirks is a street with two names. As you head west on Leroy Street, the road bends slightly and it beco..

Montgomery Place Townhouse

Montgomery Place Townhouse The townhouse at 45 Montgomery Place is a short distance from the western edge of Prospect Park. Like other properties in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Park Slope, the home possesses an air of historical significance. Deciding how best to preserve its original details, ami..

DHD Townhouse Book Introduction

DHD TOWNHOUSE BOOK An Introduction to the DHD TOWNHOUSE Book Collection New York City’s landmark townhouses invariably started out as single-family dwellings with distinct social functions stacked across multiple floors. It’s a model that still appeals today, although updating them for mod..

N. Moore Loft

N. Moore Loft The gut renovation of this former cold storage warehouse in Tribeca aimed to celebrate its industrial elements while carving out a more livable home for a young family. Although it was first converted in the early 2000s, the existing layout — which encompassed a large, open-plan liv..

Union Square Loft

Union Square Loft “We thought of this as our own little village, with a town square in the middle where you’d come together to commune with each other, and then split off to do your own thing in one of the antechamber-type rooms.”— David Howell When renovation first began on this Union Squ..

Crosby Street Loft

Crosby Street Loft “One of the philosophies we apply to our loft design is creating a sense of place inside an open commercial zone. Just because you have a sofa and chairs doesn't mean you're going to want to sit there.” — David Howell Designed to create the atmosphere of an elegant, intima..

Mercer Street Loft

Mercer Street Loft “Technically, this should be one apartment running front to back. Instead it was cut in half and made into two, so each has only one source of natural light. But sometimes you do only get one source of light in New York. Therefore, we worked with what we had.” — David Howel..