James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter Jr. (January 7, 1867 – June 11, 1932) was the leading architect of luxury residential high-rise buildings in New York City in the early 1900s.

[6] When working in Virginia and partnered with John Kevan Peebles, he designed the Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church at Norfolk (1894-1896).

[7] Working independently, he also designed Trinity United Methodist Church in Newport News, Virginia (1900).

[8] Carpenter's first New York commission, in 1909, was for 116 East 58th Street, a nine-story apartment house, since demolished.

[5] Carpenter's work was described in a New York Times ad in 1930 as having a "quiet, restful feeling about [his] apartments — in their large, high-ceiling rooms, the careful finish of detail, the skilled but unobtrusive service.