907 Fifth Avenue
| 907 Fifth Avenue | |
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J. E. R. Carpenter |
907 Fifth Avenue is a luxury residential housing cooperative in Manhattan, New York City, United States.
The 12-story, limestone-faced building is located at
J. E. R. Carpenter was the architect; he would be called upon to design many of the luxury apartment buildings that gave a new scale to Fifth Avenue in the 'teens and twenties of the 20th century.[2] The building won him the 1916 gold medal of the American Institute of Architects.[3]
The building has the aspect of an
quoins carry the rusticated feature up the corners to the boldly projecting top cornice. A strong secondary cornice above the fourth floor once made a conciliatory nod to the cornice lines of the private houses that flanked it, whose owners had fought its construction in court.[4] When it opened, there were two 12-room apartments on most floors.[1]
Notable residents
- Samuel Barber (1910–1981), composer.
- Huguette M. Clark (1906–2011), the reclusive heiress, owned all of the eighth floor and half of the 12th.[5]
- William C. Durant (1861–1947), pioneer of the US automobile industry; co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet, founded Frigidaire. [6]
- Richard Gilder (1932–2020), philanthropist[7]
- Rudolph J. Heinemann, art dealer.[8]
- Tali Farhadian Weinstein (born 1974 or 1975), former US federal prosecutor
- Frederick Iseman, financier, bought Clark's former apartment #8W in November 2012 for $22.5 million[9]
- J. Frederic Kernochan (1842–1929), attorney and socialite
- Herbert L. Pratt, a Standard Oil Company vice president, rented the largest apartment in the building, starting in 1916, at a rent of $30,000 a year, which occupied the entire top floor, with 25 rooms[4]
- William H. Remick (1866–1922), president of the New York Stock Exchange.[10]
- Boaz Weinstein, hedge fund manager and founder of Saba Capital Management, bought Clark's twelfth floor apartment, 12W, for $25.5 million in 2012.[11]
References
- ^ a b "Carter B. Horsley, 907 Fifth Avenue, The Upper East Side Book". Archived from the original on September 22, 2020. Retrieved March 4, 2010.
- ^ Gray, Christopher (August 26, 2007). "J. E. R. Carpenter, The Architect Who Shaped Upper Fifth Avenue". The New York Times.
- ^ D. Fitzgerald, Window on the Park: New York's Most Prestigious Properties on Central Park :57.
- ^ a b "907 Fifth Avenue – NYC Apartments". www.cityrealty.com.
- ^ Dedman, Bill (March 8, 2012). "Heiress Huguette Clark's apartments hit the market, listed at $55 million". Archived from the original on March 10, 2012. Retrieved March 9, 2012.
- ^ Fonger, Ron (April 6, 2012). "$55-million asking price on New York apartment building where Flint's Billy Durant lived". mlive.
- ^ Abelson, Max (December 4, 2006). "Hightower's $3.44 M. Hobby". The New York Observer.
- ^ "Rudolph J. Heinemann, 73, Dies; Was an International Art Dealer". The New York Times. February 9, 1975. Retrieved October 20, 2018.
- ^ Dailey, Jessica (November 26, 2012). "$22.5M Sale of Huguette Clark's Partial Combo Approved". Curbed. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
- ^ "WILLIAM H. REMICK DIES OF HEART DISEASE; President of the New York Stock Exchange, 1919–'21, Was Ill Only Three Days" (PDF). The New York Times. March 10, 1922. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
- ^ Finn, Robin (July 20, 2012). "Big Ticket – Sold for $25.5 Million". The New York Times. Retrieved January 28, 2016.