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The three-storey penthouse at 740 Park Avenue. The building was constructed in 1929 by James T. Lee, the grandfather of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis – who lived there as a child as Jacqueline Bouvier – and was designed by Rosario Candela and Arthur Loomis Harmon; Harmon became a partner of the newly named Shreve, Lamb and Harmon during the year of construction.
The book concentrates on the 19-floor, Art Deco luxury condominium 740 Park Avenue designed by Rosario Candela and Arthur Loomis Harmon in 1929 and on several generations of the superrich who have lived there since its construction on the peak of the Great Depression.
In the 1920s the portion of Park Avenue from Grand Central to 96th Street saw extensive apartment building construction. This long stretch of the avenue contains some of the most expensive real estate in the world. Real estate at 740 Park Avenue, for example, sells for several thousand dollars per square foot. [35] Park Avenue on the Upper East ...
There are a few photos of the 7,500-square-foot beachside behemoth via the Sotheby's International Realty ... she sold her 20-room condo at 740 Park Ave. in Manhattan for $52.5 million. Well, that ...
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The Park Avenue Houses are listed together on the National Register of Historic Places and individually on the New York City Landmark Preservation Commission registry. They are 680 Park Avenue - Percy R. Pyne House (now the Americas Society) 684 Park Avenue - Oliver D. Filley House (now the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute)
Take a trip down memory lane with by looking at these incredible photos of Christmas window displays from the last 100 years, ... to entice shoppers to come inside and check out their goods by ...
The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter is an illustrated book by American architecture historian Andrew Alpern. The book was initially published on February 2, 2002, by Acanthus Press.