655 Park Avenue
| 655 Park Avenue | |
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J.E.R. Carpenter, Mott B. Schmidt |
655 Park Avenue is a Georgian-style
Building
655 Park Avenue is designed in the Georgian architectural style, with a limestone base on the lower floors, and brick masonry on the upper floors. The building is centered around a courtyard garden facing Park Avenue.[2] The building's staggered height design, perhaps unique among Park Avenue co-ops of its era, was a result of restrictions placed on the developer by a syndicate of owners of nearby mansions who sold the land on which 655 Park Avenue was built.[3] This "Battle for Suitable Scale at 655 Avenue" is described in Andrew Alpern's book Historic Manhattan Apartment Houses.[4] The 11-story main mid-block building has an 8-story wing on 67th Street and a 7-story wing on 68th Street. It has a duplex penthouse with a 3,000-square-foot roof terrace[5] and lower terraces atop the 68th Street and 67th Street wings. 655 Park Avenue has entrances on 67th Street and 68th Street and full-time doormen and elevator operators.
Notable residents
- William Kissam Vanderbilt II, heir, motor racing enthusiast, and yachtsman[2]
- Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, architect and author of The Iconography of Manhattan Island[2]
- Danielle Steel, author[6]
- Charles Richard Crane, industrialist, heir, and noted Arabist[7]
- Schuyler Chapin, art patron and general manager of the Metropolitan Opera[8]
- William Coley, cancer researcher[9]
- Barbara Goldsmith,[10] author, journalist, and philanthropist
- Admiral Joseph J. ("Jocko") Clark, United States Navy[11]
See also
- 620 Park Avenue
- 625 Park Avenue
- 643 Park Avenue
- 720 Park Avenue
- 730 Park Avenue
- 740 Park Avenue
References
- ^ "About Mott Schmidt - Introduction". mottschmidt.com. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
- ^ a b c "655 Park Avenue, Building Review". cityrealty.com. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
- ^ "Streetscapes: 655 Park Avenue; Letting the Sunlight In". The New York Times. 22 November 1992. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
- ^ Andrew Alpern, "Historic Manhattan Apartment Houses," (Dover Publications Inc., 1996), Chapter 8: "Appropriate Apartments: Battle for Suitable Scale at 655 Avenue.", pages 36-40
- ^ Finn, Robin (1 August 2014). "A Park Avenue Penthouse for $11.5 Million". Retrieved 5 July 2017 – via NYTimes.com.
- ISBN 9780312955755. Retrieved 19 December 2016 – via Google Books.
- ISBN 9780739177464. Retrieved 19 December 2016 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Schuyler Chapin's Obituary on New York Times". legacy.com. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
- ^ "Dr. Mrs. William BradIey Coley of 655 Park Avenue", NY Times, May 30, 1928
- ^ New York Observer, December 15, 1997, "Barbara Goldsmith Leaves the Woolworth Apartment: A Newhouse Steps In"
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-03-18.
Further reading
- Alpern, Andrew (1996). Historic Manhattan Apartment Houses. Dover Publications. pp. 36–40. ISBN 978-0486288727.
- Lynch, Geoffrey (2014). Manhattan Classic: New York's Finest Prewar Apartments. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-1616891671.
- Alpern, Andrew (2002). ISBN 978-0926494206.