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907 Fifth Avenue
907 Fifth Avenue is a luxury residential housing cooperative in Manhattan, New York City.
The twelve-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.〔(Carter B. Horsley, 907 Fifth Avenue, The Upper East Side Book )〕 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.〔Christopher Gray, ("J. E. R. Carpenter, The Architect Who Shaped Upper Fifth Avenue", ''New York Times'', August 26, 2007 )〕 The building won him the 1916 gold medal of the American Institute of Architects.〔D. Fitzgerald, ''Window on the Park: New York's Most Prestigious Properties on Central Park'' :57.〕
The building has the aspect of an Italian Renaissance palazzo, 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.〔(City Realty: 907 Fifth Avenue )〕 When it opened, there were two twelve-room apartments on most floors.〔(Carter B. Horsley, 907 Fifth Avenue, The Upper East Side Book )〕 The largest apartment in the building occupied the entire top floor, with 25 rooms; it was taken by Herbert L. Pratt, a Standard Oil Company vice-president, at a rent of $30,000 a year.〔(City Realty: 907 Fifth Avenue )〕
Later residents included the reclusive heiress Huguette M. Clark, who owned all of the eighth floor and half of the 12th.〔http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/08/10614202-heiress-huguette-clarks-apartments-hit-the-market-listed-at-55-million〕
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