The building has a nominal twin at 130 East 67th Street, built a year afterward; the architects listed on the building permit are Rossiter & Wright.
PERHAPS the rest of the 100 top international designers and architects listed in the January issue of Architectural Digest spent their recent Sunday afternoon in more diligent pursuits, but two of them, Mario Buatta and Thomas Britt, convened in Mr. Britt's Upper East Side maisonette to screen a review copy of a film over lunch.
Perhaps Paterno designed much of the building itself -- the architect listed on the building permit is John C. Watson, who otherwise did only small apartments and commercial buildings for the family.
The architect listed on the original building permit was Edwin Outwater, a builder, but the journal Architecture said in 1904 that it was actually Alfred E. Barlow -- whose work includes the Samuel R. Smith Infirmary, a great red-brick Victorian castle in New Brighton, S.I. -- a much more credible attribution for a house of such ambitious sophistication.
Among the architects he lists is Kevin Roche, who designed the Ford Foundation's headquarters and the United Nations Plaza Hotel in New York.
Again, no architect was listed, but early references strongly suggest it was designed in the Navy's "plan factory".
This was apparently a family enterprise: his architect was listed as James S. Miller, and the carpenter was George S. Miller.
He can see, for example, that much of the traffic to his site comes from online directories that list architects and designers, like HGTV.com and ThisOldHouse.com.com
Yes, and there are signs: the Architects' Journal's list of the top 100 architectural practices shows that good profits, excellent staff terms and support and a diverse workforce are the winning combination.
