907 Fifth Avenue
907 Fifth Avenue | |
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General information | |
Status | Complete |
Type | Residential |
Architectural style | Italian Renaissance |
Location | Fifth Avenue and 72nd Street |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 40°46′19.5″N 73°58′01″W / 40.772083°N 73.96694°WCoordinates: 40°46′19.5″N 73°58′01″W / 40.772083°N 73.96694°W |
Current tenants | 44 units |
Completed | 1915 |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 12 |
Design and construction | |
Architect | J. E. R. Carpenter |
907 Fifth Avenue is a luxury residential housing cooperative in Manhattan, New York City, United States.
The 12-story, limestone-faced building is located at Fifth Avenue and 72nd Street on a site once occupied by the 1893 residence of , which had been designed by R. H. Robertson. The apartment block, built in 1916, was the first apartment building to replace a private mansion on Fifth Avenue above 59th Street. It was converted to a cooperative in 1955.[1] J. E. R. Carpenter was the architect; he would be called upon to design many of the luxury apartment buildings that gave a new scale to Fifth Avenue in the 'teens and twenties of the 20th century.[2] The building won him the 1916 gold medal of the American Institute of Architects.[3]
The building has the aspect of an Italian Renaissance palazzo, built around a central court. Its first four floors are lightly rusticated; deep quoins carry the rusticated feature up the corners to the boldly projecting top cornice. A strong secondary cornice above the fourth floor once made a conciliatory nod to the cornice lines of the private houses that flanked it, whose owners had fought its construction in court.[4] When it opened, there were two 12-room apartments on most floors.[1]
Notable residents[]
- Huguette M. Clark (1906–2011), the reclusive heiress, owned all of the eighth floor and half of the 12th.[5]
- William C. Durant (1861–1947), pioneer of the US automobile industry; co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet, founded Frigidaire. [6]
- Richard Gilder (1932–2020), philanthropist[7]
- Rudolph J. Heinemann, art dealer.[8]
- Tali Farhadian Weinstein (born 1974 or 1975), former US federal prosecutor
- Frederick Iseman, financier, bought Clark's former apartment #8W in November 2012 for $22.5 million[9]
- J. Frederic Kernochan (1842–1929), attorney and socialite
- Herbert L. Pratt, a Standard Oil Company vice president, rented the largest apartment in the building, starting in 1916, at a rent of $30,000 a year, which occupied the entire top floor, with 25 rooms[4]
- William H. Remick (1866–1922), president of the New York Stock Exchange.[10]
- Boaz Weinstein, hedge fund manager and founder of Saba Capital Management, bought Clark's twelfth floor apartment, 12W, for $25.5 million in 2012.[11]
- Samuel Barber (1910–1981), composer.
References[]
- ^ a b "Carter B. Horsley, 907 Fifth Avenue, The Upper East Side Book". Archived from the original on 2020-09-22. Retrieved 2010-03-04.
- ^ Christopher Gray, "J. E. R. Carpenter, The Architect Who Shaped Upper Fifth Avenue", New York Times, August 26, 2007
- ^ D. Fitzgerald, Window on the Park: New York's Most Prestigious Properties on Central Park :57.
- ^ a b "907 Fifth Avenue - NYC Apartments". www.cityrealty.com.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-10. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "$55-million asking price on New York apartment building where Flint's Billy Durant lived". mlive. April 6, 2012.
- ^ "Hightower's $3.44 M. Hobby". December 4, 2006.
- ^ "Rudolph J. Heinemann, 73, Dies; Was an International Art Dealer". The New York Times. February 9, 1975. Retrieved October 20, 2018.
- ^ Dailey, Jessica (November 26, 2012). "$22.5M Sale of Huguette Clark's Partial Combo Approved". Curbed. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
- ^ "WILLIAM H. REMICK DIES OF HEART DISEASE; President of the New York Stock Exchange, 1919-'21, Was Ill Only Three Days" (PDF). The New York Times. March 10, 1922. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
- ^ Finn, Robin (July 20, 2012). "Big Ticket - Sold for $25.5 Million". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
- Residential buildings in Manhattan
- Condominiums and housing cooperatives in Manhattan
- Fifth Avenue
- Upper East Side
- Residential buildings completed in 1915
- 1915 establishments in New York City