Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes
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Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes was an American architect. Stokes was a pioneer in social housing who co-authored the 1901 New York tenement house law. For twenty years he worked on The Iconography of Manh
Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes
229 Madison Avenue, birthplace of Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes
Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes, by John Singer Sargent, 1897
Edie Sedgwick
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Edith Minturn Sedgwick Post was an American actress, model, and socialite. Best known as a Warhol superstar, Vogue named her a "Youthquaker" in 1965, recognizing her influence on youth culture and sty
Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes
…the Republic by Daniel Chester French, and a portrait by Cecilia Beaux. She was president of the New York Kindergarten Association. She was the aunt of Edie Sedgewick, who was named after her. He founded an architectural firm, Howells & Stokes, with a partner, John Mead Howells, in 1897. Their first commission was…
Sedgwick in 1967
Sedgwick lived on the third floor at 16 East 63rd Street in Manhattan's Lenox Hill neighborhood. In 1966, a fire broke out in her apartment.