Door-to-Door:

A Virtual Look at New York’s Posh Portals


Grand entrances always make a statement. That’s especially true at New York’s most elegant and illustrious apartment buildings, where posh entrance portals offer residents a sense of home, denote a building’s grandeur and elegance, and add visual interest to the streetscape. In his new book, Posh Portals: Elegant Entrances and Ingratiating Ingresses to Apartments for the Affluent in New York City, Architectural Historian Andrew Alpern chronicles our city’s most dramatic doorways, relating how these entrances not only encapsulate the architectural goals of luxury real estate, but also express practical experiences of affluent New York urbanism: If the Dakota didn’t have an arched entryway high enough to admit a carriage, and an interior courtyard large enough for that carriage to turn around and leave the way it had come, how would the building’s original residents be driven to their doors? Join FRIENDS for this virtual discussion between Alpern and the book’s Illustrator Simon Fieldhouse, as they take us on a door-to-door journey, across the East Side and the West Side, through the history of New York’s most elegant entrances!


Thursday, February 25th

6:00 p.m. EST


Speakers

Andrew Alpern

Andrew Alpern is an architectural historian, architect, and attorney who is an expert on historic apartment houses in New York. He has ten prior books, six of which tell the stories of some of New York's architectural assets and the people behind them. Alpern has also published scores of articles about historical architecture and particular buildings. He donated to the Columbia University Libraries his 50-year archive of the work of writer/artist Edward Gorey, and his 50-year collection of 300 years of architectural drawing instruments, which have been made obsolete by computer drafting. He has been a resident of Manhattan since 1938.

Simon Fieldhouse

Simon Fieldhouse is an artist based in Sydney, Australia. He was educated at The University of Sydney where studied Arts and Law practicing briefly as a solicitor, ceasing in 1988.

He was co-author of Portraits on Yellow Paper with former Supreme Court of New South Wales judge Roderick Meagher. His works have been exhibited widely and his paintings used to illustrate the National Trust desk diaries “Historic Architecture of Australia” in 2002 and “Historic Architecture of Australia II” in 2004. The Chancellor’s Committee of The University of Sydney produced a collection of greeting and gift cards using some of his University paintings in 2002.

He has produced many paintings depicting historic Australian architecture with whimsical characters. Fieldhouse also has completed a series of paintings of historic architecture of New York City.

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