810 Fifth Avenue
810 Fifth Avenue | |
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James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter, Jr. | |
Main contractor | Bricken Construction Company |
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810 Fifth Avenue is a luxury residential housing cooperative on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.
Overview
The building is on the northeast corner of East
The building contains only 12 apartments: a ground floor maisonette, 10 full-floor apartments, and a multi-floor penthouse.[5] Each full-floor apartment has 5,000 square feet (460 m2) of space, four bedrooms and four servants' rooms.[6] The elevator opens into a private entrance foyer on each floor. Every apartment has windows overlooking Central Park. The detailing of the exterior in "elegant... limestone-clad, Italian Renaissance-palazzo style" is carried into the lobby, which features bronze torchieres and an elaborate carved plasterwork ceiling.[7][6] The New York Times once speculated that 810 might be the only apartment building in the city to have "more employees than apartments."[8]
Notable residents
Nelson Rockefeller lived in a triplex apartment with his first wife Mary Todhunter Clark. The 30-room apartment was renovated for the Rockefellers by Wallace Harrison and decorated by Jean-Michel Frank.[9] With his first wife, Rockefeller lived at the three top floors at 810 Fifth Avenue. After his divorce and marriage to Happy, his ex-wife kept the two top floors of the triplex apartment, while Nelson and Happy kept the 12th-floor apartment.[10][2] The apartment was expanded by purchasing a floor of 812 Fifth Avenue, with the two spaces connected via a flight of six steps.[11] Rockefeller and his second wife used the entrance at 812 Fifth while his first wife entered through 810 Fifth.[12][8][13]
In 1963, former Vice President Richard Nixon bought an apartment in the building.[3][10] During the 1968 presidential contest, Nixon and Rockefeller used different elevators.[11] Nixon held meetings in his fifth-floor apartment during the campaign, including an early meeting with the man who would become his vice president, Spiro Agnew.[14]
In 2000, the building's board of directors turned down an application by Gary Winnick to buy the former Nelson Rockefeller apartment.[5] Notable residents have included
References
- ^ "810 Fifth Ave. In Lenox Hill". StreetEasy.
- ^ a b Rozhon, Tracie (October 14, 1999). "A Rockefeller Fixer-Upper". The New York Times.
- ^ ISBN 0-486-27370-9.
- ^ Appraising the Most Expensive Apartment Houses in the City, Dorothy Kalins Wise, New York Magazine, May 20, 1968, pp. 18-26.
- ^ a b Kelly, Kate; Ciuraru, Carmela (January 16, 2000). "Rockefeller Penthouse Suffers a Pricy Blow; Co-op Nixes Renovations". The Observer. Archived from the original on 2010-01-08.
- ^ a b Luxury apartment houses of Manhattan: an illustrated history, Andrew Alpern, Dover Publications, 1992, pp. 110-111.
- ^ Carter B. Horsley, The Upper East Side Book
- ^ a b Schumach, Murray (March 18, 1968). "Presidential Politics Yields to Privacy At Apartments of 3 Candidates Here; WHERE PRIVACY ECLIPSES POLITICS". The New York Times.
- ^ February 27, 2008 Rock It Like A Rockefeller, [1]
- ^ a b "The Upper East Side Book: Fifth Avenue: 810 Fifth Avenue". thecityreview.com. Archived from the original on 22 February 2002. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
- ^ a b Luxury apartment houses of Manhattan: an illustrated history, Andrew Alpern, Dover Publications, 1992, p. 112.
- ^ February 27, 2008, Rock It Like A Rockefeller
- ^ "The Nelson Rockefeller Apartment, 810-812 Fifth Avenue". Facebook.
- ^ Arnold, Martin (March 30, 1968). "NIXON CONSULTS WITH GOV. AGNEW; Meets Rockefeller Supporter Here in Bid for Liberals". The New York Times.
- ^ Toy, Vivian S. (February 25, 2010). "Geffen Buys Fifth Avenue Co-op for $14 Million". The New York Times.
- ^ David, Mark (2008-02-27). "Rock It Like A Rockefeller". Variety. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
- ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-09-19.