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In 1921, Anne then purchased the former home of Effingham B. Sutton, at 1 Sutton Place, for $50,000 in the then-new neighborhood of Sutton Place, also in Manhattan. [10] Before her move, along with Elizabeth Marbury, Anne Morgan, [11] her sister, Emeline Harriman Olin, second wife of Stephen Henry Olin, the neighborhood was known as a squalid ...
The earliest source found by The New York Times using the term Sutton Place dates to 1883. At that time, the New York City Board of Aldermen approved a petition to change the name from "Avenue A" to "Sutton Place", covering the blocks between 57th and 60th Streets. [5] [6] The block between 59th and 60th Streets is now considered a part of York ...
The three women, known as "The Versailles Triumvirate" [5] hosted a salon in France and, in 1903, along with Florence Jaffray Harriman, helped organize the Colony Club, the first women's social club in New York City and, later, helped found the exclusive neighborhood of Sutton Place along Manhattan's East River.
Rendering of One Sutton Place, 1921. In the early 1920s, Schmidt was hired by wealthy socialites Anne Harriman Vanderbilt, second wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt; and Anne Morgan, daughter of banker J. Pierpont Morgan; [6] and Elisabeth Marbury, to design their townhouses in the then-new Sutton Place neighborhood in Manhattan, [7] which up to that point had been known as a "squalid place."
W. Averell Harriman – governor of New York [54] Kitty Carlisle Hart – singer, advocate for the arts and historic preservation [37] Henry Osborne Havemeyer – industrialist [110] Millicent Hearst – wife of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst [11] Drue Heinz – patron of the literary arts, actress, philanthropist and socialite [111]
The Colony Club is a women-only private social club in New York City. Founded in 1903 by Florence Jaffray Harriman, wife of J. Borden Harriman, as the first social club established in New York City by and for women, it was modeled on similar gentlemen's clubs. Today, men are admitted as guests. [2]
Carrie lived another twenty-two years and died on September 13, 1948, at the home of her son Richard, 1 Sutton Place (the former home of Anne Harriman Vanderbilt). [1] At the time of her death, she was the last surviving child of her parents. After a funeral at Trinity Church, she was buried alongside her husband at Woodlawn Cemetery. [33]
His mansion in New York was located at the corner of Second Avenue and 15th Street, near most of the Stuyvesant and Rutherfurd properties. [1] He had an estate in the country, known as Tranquility Farms, near Hackettstown, New Jersey that was the original Stuyvesant homestead. He enlarged the home which was located on 7,000 acres and included a ...