Mott B. Schmidt

There he learned not only to build using modern materials, but also to design in the classical styles favored by Beaux Arts trained architects.

[4] During World War I, Schmidt served stateside in the U.S. Army as a First Lieutenant, supervising military installations at the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland and at Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, during 1917 and 1918.

[4] In the early 1920s, Schmidt was hired by wealthy socialites Anne Harriman Vanderbilt, second wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt; and Anne Morgan, daughter of banker J. Pierpont Morgan;[6] and Elisabeth Marbury, to design their townhouses in the then-new Sutton Place neighborhood in Manhattan,[7] which up to that point had been known as a "squalid place.

He also designed the Italian Renaissance houses along the north side of Hardee Road in Coral Gables French City Village.

[17] He also designed the 1966 Susan B. Wagner wing of Gracie Mansion in New York City,[18] an $800,000 two-story addition that included a ballroom modeled after the one in a 1790 house built for the Lyman family of Waltham, Massachusetts.

[23] Katherine, a daughter of John Willard Lapsley and graduate of the Ethel Walker School, was previously married to, and divorced from, Melville E. Stone II.