The Hutcheson Mansion at 1211 Park Ave: A Victorian design gets a fashionable update

In the 1920s, the brick-and-brownstone façade was replaced with a neo-Georgian front
The property was on and off the market from 2013 to 2024, when it was asking $9.25 million

By Tom Miller | February 24, 2026 - 2:00PM

Have you ever passed by an interesting residential building in New York City and wanted to know more about its history? In this series, Brick Underground teams up with Tom Miller, creator of Daytonian in Manhattan, a blog about Manhattan buildings and other historic architecture. Each week, we will run an excerpt from the Daytonian’s archives with a link to the full article.

In 1889, developer Edward T. Smith and architecture firm Flemer & Koehler built eight Queen Anne-style mansions on Park Avenue, wrapping around the northeast corner of 94th Street. The project for developer Edward T. Smith would cost $112,000, or just under $500,000 per house in 2026 terms.

The Weil family occupied the 20-foot-wide 1211 Park Ave. as early as 1894. By May 1922, when Fredericka Weil sold the house to William A. Hutcheson, vice president and actuary of the Mutual Life Insurance Company and his wife, the former Martha Brookes, a prominent landscape architect, its stoop had already been removed for the widening of the avenue.

While the address was still fashionable, the home's Victorian design was not. The Hutchesons hired architect William L. Bottomley to bring it into the 20th century. The mansion was enlarged to the rear, the brick-and-brownstone façade removed, and a stuccoed neo-Georgian front installed.

The two entrances—the main and service doorways—flanked two windows on the ground level. The first floor was dominated by French windows below a Georgian-inspired broken pediment and urn. The arched windows of the top floor sat within shallow recesses. A stone balustrade crowned the understated molded cornice.

In recent years, the property was on and off the market for more than a decade beginning in 2013, according to a June 2024 Robb Report article, when it was priced at $9.25 million. It does not appear to be currently available for sale.

For more on 1211 Park Ave. and details on its array of owners, check out the full article.

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Born in Dayton, Ohio, Tom relocated to New York city in 1978. An author, blogger, lecturer and historian, Tom has written the histories of more than 5,000 locations in Manhattan (as of March 2025). He is the author of "Seeking New York", "Seeking Chicago", "Daytonian in Manhattan," contributed to several other books, and consulted for pieces in Architectural Digest, The New York Times, and similar publications.

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