The Clarence Whitman Mansion is a historic townhouse on the
Upper East Side
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of
Manhattan
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in
New York City
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, U.S.
It was designed in the
Renaissance Revival architectural style by Parish & Schroeder, and its construction was completed in 1898.
It belonged to
Sam Salz
Sam Salz was an art dealer, art collector, and patron of the arts. He was born March 12, 1894 in Radomyśl Wielki, (then in Galicia, Austria-Hungary; since 1921 in Poland). He died on March 21, 1981, in New York City.
Personal life and start as a ...
, an art dealer, from the 1940s to the 1970s.
It was purchased by
Bungo Shimada, a Japanese philanthropist, in 1990.
References
Upper East Side
Houses completed in 1898
Houses in Manhattan
Renaissance Revival architecture in New York City
1898 establishments in New York City
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