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The Felix M. Warburg House is a mansion at 1109 Fifth Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. The house was built from 1907 to 1908 for the German-American Jewish financier Felix M. Warburg and his family. After Warburg's death in 1937, his widow sold the mansion to a real estate developer.
The Jewish Museum is an art museum and repository of cultural artifacts, housed at 1109 Fifth Avenue, in the former Felix M. Warburg House, along the Museum Mile on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. The first Jewish museum in the United States, as well as the oldest extant Jewish museum in the world, it contains the largest ...
Temple Israel of the City of New York: Temple Israel of the City of New York: August 4, 2023 : 210 West 91st St. Upper West Side: Listing is for the congregation's 1920 building. 99: Three Arts Club: May 23, 2024
Nominators: ♠Vamí _IV†♠ Epicgenius 21:12, 16 January 2024 (UTC) [] This article is about another of the great houses that once lined Fifth Avenue in New York. Specifically, this is the mansion of Felix M. Warburg, a Jewish financier who ignored fears of anti-Semitic reprisal to his decided to build himself a big Gothic manor in the middle of New Yo
The Felix M. Warburg House is a mansion located at 1109 Fifth Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was built from 1907 to 1908 for the German-American Jewish financier Felix M. Warburg, in the Châteauesque style, by C. P. H. Gilbert. After Warburg's death in 1937, his widow sold it to a real estate developer.
Edward Warburg was born on June 5, 1908, in White Plains, New York, [1] and grew up at the Felix M. Warburg House, a mansion on Fifth Avenue (now home to the Jewish Museum) on the Upper East Side of New York City. [2] He was a son of Frieda (née Schiff) Warburg and Felix Moritz Warburg, a partner of the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Co. [1] [3] [4]
The Felix M. Warburg House in New York City is now the Jewish Museum, and Kfar Warburg in Israel is named for him. Otto Warburg, a cousin of the German-based Warburgs was a wealthy botanist who was elected head of the World Zionist Organization in 1911.
As a result of his philanthropic activities, a new Jewish village established in Mandate Palestine in 1939, Kfar Warburg, was named after him. He was a trustee of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. [23] [24] Warburg also served as president of The 92nd Street Y, then the Young Men's Hebrew Association, from 1908-1916. While president ...