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998 Fifth Avenue is a luxury cooperative in Manhattan, New York and it is located on Fifth Avenue at the Northeast corner of East 81st Street on the Upper East Side. ==Design== The , 12-story building was designed by the McKim, Mead & White architectural firm and built by James T. Lee (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ grandfather) in 1910–1912. The Italian Renaissance-style Palazzo structure is sheathed entirely in limestone. It has a frontage of 102 feet 2 inches on Fifth Avenue and on the side street. Like most older apartment houses, it features a large cornice and an inner court square but no penthouses. Striking balustrade stringcourses define the division of the base from the body, and the body from the top. Each window above the stringcourse is capped with a pediment or cornice. Impressive panels of escutcheons and light-yellow marble adorn the structure horizontally at four-floor intervals. A heavily quoined corner and richly decorated overhanging eaves add to the exterior splendor of this structure. The imperial façade is further abetted with an iron marquee that extends over the side street entrance and is crested with palmette forms. The building has a large inner courtyard. There is a marquee on the side street entrance. The façade of 998 is divided into three horizontal sections to reduce the scale – a heavy base of rusticated stone, and then two midsections separated by ornamental plaques and balustrades. A cornice tops off the building. The exterior is notable for inset marble panels at the eighth and 12th floors, and the projecting iron and glass marquee over the main entrance. Built by the Harris H. Uris ironworks, the marquee (or, as it was more formally called in those days, the marquise) had a wire glass top and clear glass sides, allowing a flood of light into what was nominally an interior space. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「998 Fifth Avenue」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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