907 Fifth Avenue is a luxury residential
housing cooperative in
Manhattan
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,
New York City
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, United States.
The 12-story, limestone-faced building is located at
Fifth Avenue and
72nd Street on a site once occupied by the 1893 residence of
James A. Burden, which had been designed by
R. H. Robertson. The apartment block, built in 1916, was the first apartment building to replace a private mansion on Fifth Avenue above
59th Street. It was converted to a cooperative in 1955.
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. The building won him the 1916 gold medal of the
American Institute of Architects
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.
The building has the aspect of an
Italian Renaissance
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palazzo
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, built around a central court. Its first four floors are lightly
rusticated; deep
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.
When it opened, there were two 12-room apartments on most floors.
Notable residents
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Huguette M. Clark (1906–2011), the reclusive heiress, owned all of the eighth floor and half of the 12th.
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William C. Durant (1861–1947), pioneer of the US automobile industry; co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet, founded Frigidaire.
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Richard Gilder (1932–2020), philanthropist
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Rudolph J. Heinemann, art dealer.
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Tali Farhadian Weinstein (born 1974 or 1975), former US federal prosecutor
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Frederick Iseman, financier, bought Clark's former apartment #8W in November 2012 for $22.5 million
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J. Frederic Kernochan (1842–1929), attorney and socialite
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Herbert L. Pratt
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, 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
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William H. Remick (1866–1922), president of the New York Stock Exchange.
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Boaz Weinstein, hedge fund manager and founder of Saba Capital Management, bought Clark's twelfth floor apartment, 12W, for $25.5 million in 2012.
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Samuel Barber (1910–1981), composer.
References
{{Fifth Avenue
Residential buildings in Manhattan
Condominiums and housing cooperatives in Manhattan
Fifth Avenue
Upper East Side
Residential buildings completed in 1915
1915 establishments in New York City