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The house was the setting for many parties and was a New York City attraction. The ballroom could hold 1,200 people, compared with 400 at Astor’s previous mansion at 350 Fifth Avenue and 34th Street. [1] The mansion was sold to real estate developer Benjamin Winter Sr. [2] and demolished around 1926.
George Washington Vanderbilt Houses, 645 and 647 Fifth Avenue, New York, called the "Marble Twins". 1902 to 1905. Number 647 survives, a designated landmark, as the flagship store for Versace; [5] the site of 645 is now Olympic Tower.
The mansion occupied a site of 200 by 150 feet (61 by 46 m). [9] The southern section at 640 Fifth Avenue was a single-family unit, occupied by William Henry Vanderbilt, his wife Maria Louisa Kissam, and their youngest son George. [2] The southern section measured 115 feet (35 m) deep and either 80 feet (24 m) [5] or 74 feet (23 m) wide.
The William K. Vanderbilt House, also known as the Petit Chateau, was a Châteauesque mansion at 660 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 52nd Street.
The William A. Clark House, nicknamed "Clark's Folly", [2] was a mansion located at 962 Fifth Avenue on the northeast corner of its intersection with East 77th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It was demolished in 1927 and replaced with a luxury apartment building (960 Fifth Avenue).
[62] [63] By the late 1920s, many of Fifth Avenue's mansions were being demolished to make way for apartments, although the Harkness House remained standing. [6] The 75th Street mansion was one of seven Harkness family residences. [64] In addition to the 75th Street mansion, the Harknesses had a carriage house nearby on 73rd Street. [65]
The Cornelius Vanderbilt II House was a large mansion built in 1883 at 1 West 57th Street in Manhattan, New York City. It occupied the frontage along the west side of Fifth Avenue from West 57th Street up to West 58th Street at Grand Army Plaza. The home was sold in 1926 and demolished to make way for the Bergdorf Goodman Building.
The Andrew Carnegie Mansion is at 2 East 91st Street [5] [6] in the Carnegie Hill section of the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. [7] It stands on 1.2 acres (0.49 ha) of land [8] between Fifth Avenue and Central Park to the west, 90th Street to the south, and 91st Street to the north. [9]