Emery Roth

Emery Roth (born Róth Imre, 1871 – August 20, 1948) was a Hungarian-American architect who built many of the definitive New York City hotels and apartment buildings of the 1920s and 30s, incorporating Beaux-Arts and Art Deco details. Born in Gálszécs, Austria-Hungary (now Slovakia) he emigrated to the United States at the age of 13 after his family fell into poverty upon his father's death. He began his architectural apprenticeship as a draftsman in the Chicago offices of Burnham & Root, working on the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. There he met Richard Morris Hunt, who was impressed with his skills and invited Roth to work in his office in New York. Following Hunt's premature death in 1895, Roth moved to the office of Ogden Codman, Jr., a designer and decorator with a Newport clientele.

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Work by Emery Roth

The Eldorado.

Roth is less often remembered as an architect of synagogues and of middle-class apartment housing.

After his death, his sons Julian and Richard and grandson Richard Roth Jr. carried on his practice as Emery Roth & Sons. His great-grandson Richard Lee Roth is currently employed in the architectural profession and resides in South Florida.

Work by Emery Roth & Sons

The MetLife Building.
  • 2 Broadway (1959)
  • 2 Fifth Avenue (1952)
  • 7 World Trade Center (1987)
  • 10 East 70th Street Apartments (1960)
  • 10 Hanover Square (1969)
  • 17 State Street (1988)
  • 22 Cortland Street (1971)
  • 30 Park Avenue (1954)
  • 40 Park Avenue (1950)
  • 45 East End Avenue Apartments (1950)
  • 55 Water Street (1972)
  • 60 Broad Street (1962)
  • 77 Water Street (1970)
  • 80 Pine Street (1960)
  • 85 East End Avenue, NE corner of E83rd St (1950)
  • 100 Wall Street (1969)
  • 123 William Street (1957)
  • 156 William Street (1956)
  • 200 Water Street (1971)
  • 215 East 68th Apartments (1962)
  • 250 Broadway (1963)
  • 300 East 57th Street (1947)
  • 345 Park Avenue (1969)
  • 355 Lexington Avenue (1959)
  • 380 Madison Avenue (1953)
  • 415 Madison Avenue (1956)
  • 485 Lexington Avenue (1956)
  • 546 Fifth Avenue (1990)
  • 555 Fifth Avenue (1954)
  • 575 Fifth Avenue (1983)
  • 575 Madison Avenue (1950)
  • 589 Fifth Avenue (1954)
  • 600 Third Avenue (1971)
  • 600 Madison Avenue (1965)
  • 605 Third Avenue (f/k/a Burroughs Building) (1963)
  • 630 Third Avenue (1958)
  • 641 Lexington Avenue (1964)
  • 715 Park Avenue (1949)
  • 747 Third Avenue (1972)
  • 750 Third Avenue (1958)
  • 845 Third Avenue (1963)
  • 850 Third Avenue (1961)
  • 888 Seventh Avenue (1971)
  • 900 Third Avenue (1983)
  • 909 Third Avenue (1967)
  • 945 Fifth Avenue Apartments (1949)
  • 1155 Avenue of the Americas (1984)
  • 1180 Sixth Avenue (1962)
  • 1212 Sixth Avenue (1963)
  • 1430 Broadway (1956)
  • 1585 Broadway (1989)
  • 1700 Broadway (1969)
  • AXA Financial Center (1963)
  • Bank of Montreal Building (1955)
  • Bankers Trust Building (1962)
  • Bankers Trust Annex Building (1965)
  • Blue Cross Building (1973)
  • Bronx High School of Science (1959)
  • Burlington House (1969)
  • Capitol-EMI Building (1971)
  • Citigroup Center (1977)
  • Colgate-Palmolive Building (1955)
  • Crystal Pavilion (1982)
  • Davies Building (1955)
  • Diamond National Building (1961)
  • Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Building (1963)
  • East Ohio Building (Cleveland, Ohio) (1959)
  • Ellington Apartments (1987)
  • Emigrant Savings Bank Building (1969)
  • Franklin National Bank Building (1972)
  • Fifth Avenue Tower (1986)
  • Financial Times Building (1965)
  • General Motors Building (1968)
  • General Reinsurance Building (1958)
  • Hanover Bank Building (1962)
  • Harcourt, Brace & World Building (1964)
  • Harper & Row Building (1972)
  • Harriman National Bank Building (1959)
  • Helmsley Palace Hotel (1981)
  • Hotel Benjamin (1927)
  • Hotel St. George(1930)
  • Interchem Building (1970)
  • ITT-American Building (1967)
  • J.P. Stevens Company Tower (1971)
  • Leverett Saltonstall Building (1965)
  • Look Building (1950)
  • Lorillard Building (1959)
  • MacMillan Building (1966)
  • Manhattan Tower (1985)
  • Merchandise Mart Building (1973)
  • MetLife Building (1963)
  • MGM Building (1965)
  • Mutual of America Building (1960)
  • National Distillers Building (1954)
  • North American Plywood Building (1972)
  • One Battery Park Plaza (1971)
  • One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza (1972)
  • Oxford Condominiums (1990)
  • Paramount Plaza (1970)
  • Paris Theater & Office Building (1948)
  • Park Lane Hotel (1971)
  • Pfizer Building (1961)
  • Random House Building (1969)
  • Schroder Building (1969)
  • Sovereign Apartments (1973)
  • Sterling Drug Company Building (1964)
  • Symphony House Apartments (1986)
  • Tower East Apartments (1962)
  • Westvaco Building (1967)
  • Winstar Building and Addition (1974)
  • World Trade Center (1972-1973)
  • Xerox Building (1965)

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References

  • Steven Ruttenbaum Mansions in the Cloud: The Skyscraper Palazzi of Emery Roth (1986)

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