New York's Osborne Apartment House of 1885

The Osborne, at 205 West 57th Street, was one of New York's first luxury apartment houses; along with peers like the Dakota, it helped to popularize the idea of apartment living among New York's affluent classes. A monument to the Gilded Age, the Osborne features a rusticated brownstone facade with both Romanesque and Renaissance motifs, and a foyer and lobby elaborately adorned with marble, mosaics, murals, gilding, and stained glass. Although many of its grand apartments were gradually subdivided, the Osborne has always remained a habitat for the interesting and influential, including many habitu