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Petit Chateau, New York, NY "Petit Chateau", the New York City townhouse at 660 Fifth Avenue, built in 1882 with details drawn in part from the late-Gothic Hôtel de Cluny, Paris. Proved an influential example for other Gilded Age mansions, but was demolished in 1926.
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 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.
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.
Fifth Avenue and 77th Street in New York City (winter 1905–1906) The house took up 250 feet on 77th Street and 77 feet on Fifth Avenue, more than any other Gilded Age mansion on Fifth opposite the park, with the exception of the Andrew Carnegie Mansion. [3] The Fifth Avenue frontage was large for a New York house, with three bays of granite.
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]
Before William W. and Thomas M. Hall had developed the mansions at 1006–1009 Fifth Avenue, the site at the southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street was undeveloped. [10] In July 1899, the Halls hired Welch, Smith & Provot to design three five-story mansions at the southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street at a cost of $255,000 ...