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The facade, which has had many repairs, is relatively plain except for several sculpted faces at the fifth story. The large building has only 27 apartments and has had many prominent residents including Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis , who purchased a penthouse apartment on the 15th floor in 1964 and lived there for thirty years until her death in ...
Jackie O. had 1040 Fifth Avenue, Babe and Bill Paley had their St. Regis crib, Logan Roy had his (faux) duplex across from the Met. And Leonard Bernstein —along with John and Yoko and Lauren ...
During their marriage, the Onassises inhabited six residences: her 15-room apartment at 1040 Fifth Avenue in New York City, her horse farm in New Jersey, his apartment in Paris (88 Avenue Foch), his house in Athens, his house on Skorpios and his yacht Christina O.
On July 30, 1966, she married Lewis Polk Rutherfurd, a recent graduate of Princeton University and future financier. [8] Lewis was the son of Winthrop Rutherfurd Jr. of New York and Fishers Island, [9] the grandson of Frank L. Polk, the Under Secretary of State in Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, and the great-grandson of Levi P. Morton, the former governor of New York and vice president under ...
Following Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' death in 1994, Koch purchased her 15-room apartment at 1040 Fifth Avenue. In 1996 he married Julia Flesher. [97] [98] The apartment "wasn't roomy enough" after the birth of their third child, so Koch sold it to billionaire Glenn Dubin in 2006 and moved with his family to 740 Park Avenue.
770 Park Avenue, 1930 [20] 1040 Fifth Avenue, 1930; 1021 Park Avenue, 1930; 834 Fifth Avenue, 1930; 12 East 88th Street, 1931; 1500 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, 1931; 56 Seventh Avenue, 1931; 778 Park Avenue, 1931 [20] 2 Beekman Place, 1932; 3 Times Square (Rialto Theatre), 1935 (replaced by Reuters Building, 2001)
Kennedy at the Taj Mahal, 15 March 1962. Jacqueline Kennedy undertook a goodwill tour of India and Pakistan in March 1962. While the media devoted widespread coverage to Kennedy's fashion styles, she functioned as an informal diplomat and developed her interest in arts and architecture, returning to India in later years to co-produce a book on Indian art.
She purchased a house for herself and her children in Georgetown but sold it later in 1964 and bought a 15th-floor penthouse apartment for $250,000 at 1040 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in the hopes of having more privacy. [134] [135] [136] In the following years, Kennedy attended selected memorial dedications to her late husband.