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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).
The family resided in a six-story, 121-room mansion located at 962 Fifth Avenue, [16] the largest house in New York City at the time. [17] Following the death of her father in 1925, Clark and her mother relocated from the mansion to a twelfth-floor apartment at 907 Fifth Avenue. [18]
The William A. Clark House at 962 Fifth Avenue, which was torn down to build 960 Fifth Avenue. 960 Fifth Avenue was built on the former site of the William A. Clark House. When Senator Clark died in 1925, his widow and daughter, Huguette Clark, moved to 907 Fifth Avenue and sold the mansion, which cost $7 million, [2] to Anthony Campagna for $3 ...
"Fifth Avenue is layered, revealing disparate moments in time, the old buffeted by the new," journalist Julie Satow writes. "Yet Central Park still blows its breath of nature onto the pavement ...
In 1927, he purchased 962 Fifth Avenue for $3 million (equivalent to $52,121,000 in 2023). [7] The building, which was the residence of the late Senator William A. Clark and cost $7 million to build, was sold by Clark's widow and daughter, Huguette Clark, who moved to 907 Fifth Avenue. [8]
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune is a non-fiction book by the American authors Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr., about the heiress Huguette Clark (1906–2011), daughter of the copper baron and United States Senator William A. Clark (1839–1925), one of the wealthiest men in the world at the time.
The interior was entered from Fifth Avenue via an entrance vestibule. The vestibule opened onto a 60-foot (18 m) long grand hall, which could be used to access all of the primary first floor rooms. The grand hall was faced in Caen stone, as was much of the interior. It was worked and carved with decorative relief.
The Baby Box was set up on the east end of the Richmond Fire Department's Station 1 at 101 S. 5th St. and was unveiled on June 20 after receiving a blessing from department Chaplain Eliott LaRue ...