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907 Fifth Avenue

Residential building in Manhattan, New York

Field	Value
name	907 Fifth Avenue
status	Completed
image	907 Fifth Avenue via WSM jeh.jpg
caption	907 Fifth Avenue
location	Fifth Avenue and [72nd Street](72nd-street-manhattan)
location_country	United States
mapframe-wikidata	yes
coordinates
completion_date	1915
architect	J. E. R. Carpenter
floor_count	12
building_type	Residential
architectural_style	Italian Renaissance
current_tenants	44 units

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907 Fifth Avenue is a luxury residential housing cooperative in Manhattan, New York City, 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. 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 1910s and 1920s. The building won him the 1916 gold medal of the American Institute of Architects.

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. When it opened, there were two 12-room apartments on most floors.

Notable residents

Samuel Barber (1910–1981), composer.
Huguette M. Clark (1906–2011), the reclusive heiress, owned all of the eighth floor and half of the 12th.
William C. Durant (1861–1947), pioneer of the US automobile industry; co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet, founded Frigidaire.
Richard Gilder (1932–2020), philanthropist
Rudolph J. Heinemann, art dealer.
Tali Farhadian Weinstein (born 1974 or 1975), former US federal prosecutor
J. Frederic Kernochan (1842–1929), attorney and socialite
Herbert L. Pratt, 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
William H. Remick (1866–1922), president of the New York Stock Exchange.
Boaz Weinstein, hedge fund manager and founder of Saba Capital Management, bought Clark's twelfth floor apartment, 12W, for $25.5 million in 2012.

References

"Carter B. Horsley, 907 Fifth Avenue, The Upper East Side Book".
Gray, Christopher. (August 26, 2007). "J. E. R. Carpenter, The Architect Who Shaped Upper Fifth Avenue". The New York Times.
D. Fitzgerald, ''Window on the Park: New York's Most Prestigious Properties on Central Park'' :57.
"907 Fifth Avenue – NYC Apartments".
Dedman, Bill. (March 8, 2012). "Heiress Huguette Clark's apartments hit the market, listed at $55 million".
Fonger, Ron. (April 6, 2012). "$55-million asking price on New York apartment building where Flint's Billy Durant lived".
Abelson, Max. (December 4, 2006). "Hightower's $3.44 M. Hobby".
(February 9, 1975). "Rudolph J. Heinemann, 73, Dies; Was an International Art Dealer". The New York Times.
(March 10, 1922). "WILLIAM H. REMICK DIES OF HEART DISEASE; President of the New York Stock Exchange, 1919–'21, Was Ill Only Three Days.". [[The New York Times]].
(July 20, 2012). "Big Ticket – Sold for $25.5 Million". The New York Times.

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