MCKIM, MEAD & WHITE, FOR THE CHARLES L. TIFFANY HOUSE, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1882-1885

Stanford White was the lead architect on this project, to design a large enough home to accommodate Charles Tiffany, his daughter Louise, and his son Louis Comfort, whose first wife had recently passed away, leaving behind their three young children. According to the book New York 1880, Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age, this building project for a grand home located on the Northwest corner of Madison Avenue and 72nd Street was, "...conceived in part with a therapeutic purpose in mind, since Charles Tiffany left to his still-grieving son the day-to-day responsibility for working with Stanford White on the design." Louis C. Tiffany's family apartment and studios were located on the fourth floor of the building, and it is believed that he had a strong hand in their design.