The Richard H. Mandel House is a historic home located at Bedford Hills, Westchester County, New York. It was designed by architect Edward Durell Stone and built between 1933 and 1935 in the International style. It is a "Z"-shaped building sited overlooking the Croton Reservoir. It is a two-story, concrete block, steel frame, and

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building with a partial basement recessed into the sloping site. Located on a lot of 21 acres, the house is almost 10,000 square feet with 7 bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms. It features a flat roof, smooth and uniform wall surfaces, lack of applied ornament, asymmetrical composition with an emphasis on horizontality, and projecting balconies and wide expanses of ribbon windows. The original owner was Richard Mandel (1907–1976), a member of the Mandel Brothers department store family of Chicago. ''See also:'' It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

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Edward Durell Stone buildings Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) International style architecture in New York (state) Houses completed in 1935 Houses in Westchester County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Westchester County, New York {{WestchesterCountyNY-NRHP-stub