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Otto Hermann Kahn (February 21, 1867 – March 29, 1934) was an American investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts.Kahn was a well-known figure, appearing on the cover of Time magazine and was sometimes referred to as the "King of New York".
The Otto H. Kahn House is a mansion at 1 East 91st Street, at Fifth Avenue, in the Carnegie Hill section of the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.The four-story mansion was designed by architects J. Armstrong Stenhouse and C. P. H. Gilbert in the neo-Italian Renaissance style.
Oheka Castle, also known as the Otto Kahn Estate, is a hotel located on the North Shore (or "Gold Coast") of Long Island, in West Hills, New York, a hamlet in the town of Huntington. It was the country home of investment financier and philanthropist Otto Hermann Kahn and his family.
1 East 91st Street (Otto H. Kahn House) houses grade 5 through grade 12 (opened in 1934) 7 East 91st Street ( James A. Burden House ) houses pre-kindergarten through grade 4 (opened in 1940) In September 2008, the school purchased a facility located at 406 East 91st Street and created a new sports center.
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) consequently designated the Burden and Kahn houses as landmarks. [ 83 ] [ 84 ] In 1973, the Convent sold its portion of the courtyard east of the house to the government of the Soviet Union , [ 13 ] which had bought the Hammond House for use as a consulate, for $100,000. [ 85 ]
The Shuberts bought it in 1916 and leased it to Otto Kahn, who named it Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier, after a theatre in Paris of the same name. Kahn later gave it to the Theatre Guild and it resumed the name Garrick Theatre in 1919. The Shuberts resumed management in 1925 and the theatre closed as a playhouse in 1929.
Also in the general neighborhood, Philadelphia placed 9th out of all American cities for many of the same reasons as New York. Buffalo, the only other Empire State entry, landed at a middling 45th.
At its new location, the school was based in one of the largest mansions ever constructed in the United States, Oheka Castle, built by Otto Kahn, a multimillionaire. Following Kahn's death in 1934, his heirs had little interest in the estate, and the town of Huntington briefly used it as a retirement home for municipal employees.