Emery Roth
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| Born | 1871 Sečovce, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | August 20, 1948 (aged 77) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Residence | Austria-Hungary, United States |
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| Occupation | Architect |
| Notable work | Hotel Belleclaire (1903) Ritz Hotel Tower (1925) The Eldorado (1929–31) The San Remo (1930) The Ardsley (1931) 2 Sutton Place South (1938) 300 East 57th Street (1947) |
| Spouse(s) | Ella Grosman |
| Children | Julian, Richard, Elizabeth, Kathrin |
Emery Roth (Hungarian: Róth Imre, 1871 – August 20, 1948) was an American architect of Jewish descent who designed many of the definitive New York City hotels and apartment buildings of the 1920s and 1930s, incorporating Beaux-Arts and Art Deco details. His sons continued in the family enterprise, largely expanding the firm under the name Emery Roth & Sons.
Born in Sečovce (Hungarian: Gálszécs), Austria-Hungary (now Slovakia) to a Jewish family, 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. At the Exposition Roth also designed one of his first solo projects; a pavilion that housed a chocolatier. 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. In the interwar years, the firm of Emery Roth delivered some of the most influential examples of architecture for apartment houses in the at-the-time fashionable beaux art-style, especially in Manhattan. In 1938, Roth included his sons Julian and Richard as partners.
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