655 Park Avenue
{{Short description|Apartment building in Manhattan, New York}}
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|architectural_style = Georgian Architecture
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655 Park Avenue is a Georgian-style co-op residential building on Manhattan's Upper East Side, located on Park Avenue between 67th Street and 68th Street, adjacent to the Park Avenue Armory. It was developed in 1924 by Dwight P. Robinson & Company. The building at 655 Park Avenue was designed by architects James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter, Jr., often referred to by the initials "J.E.R. Carpenter", and Mott B. Schmidt. Carpenter is considered the leading architect for luxury residential high-rise buildings in New York City in the early 1900s, while Schmidt is known for his buildings in the American Georgian Classical style, including Sutton Place and houses for New York City's society figures and business elite.{{cite web|url=http://www.mottschmidt.com/about_us/view/introduction-1|title=About Mott Schmidt - Introduction|work=mottschmidt.com|access-date=19 December 2016}}
Building
655 Park Avenue is designed in the Georgian architectural style, with a limestone base on the lower floors, and brick masonry on the upper floors. The building is centered around a courtyard garden facing Park Avenue.{{cite web|url=https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/park-fifth-ave-79th-st/655-park-avenue/review/7914|title=655 Park Avenue, Building Review|work=cityrealty.com|access-date=19 December 2016}} The building's staggered height design, perhaps unique among Park Avenue co-ops of its era, was a result of restrictions placed on the developer by a syndicate of owners of nearby mansions who sold the land on which 655 Park Avenue was built.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/22/realestate/streetscapes-655-park-avenue-letting-the-sunlight-in.html|title=Streetscapes: 655 Park Avenue; Letting the Sunlight In|date=22 November 1992|work=The New York Times|access-date=19 December 2016}} This "Battle for Suitable Scale at 655 Avenue" is described in Andrew Alpern's book Historic Manhattan Apartment Houses.Andrew Alpern, "Historic Manhattan Apartment Houses," (Dover Publications Inc., 1996), Chapter 8: "Appropriate Apartments: Battle for Suitable Scale at 655 Avenue.", pages 36-40 The 11-story main mid-block building has an 8-story wing on 67th Street and a 7-story wing on 68th Street. It has a duplex penthouse with a 3,000-square-foot roof terrace{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/realestate/a-park-avenue-penthouse-for-11-5-million.html|title=A Park Avenue Penthouse for $11.5 Million|first=Robin|last=Finn|date=1 August 2014|access-date=5 July 2017|via=NYTimes.com}} and lower terraces atop the 68th Street and 67th Street wings. 655 Park Avenue has entrances on 67th Street and 68th Street and full-time doormen and elevator operators.
Notable residents
- William Kissam Vanderbilt II, heir, motor racing enthusiast, and yachtsman
- Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, architect and author of The Iconography of Manhattan Island
- Danielle Steel, author{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v7dQBsxdaN0C&dq=%22655+park+avenue%22&pg=PA23|title=The Lives of Danielle Steel: The Unauthorized Biography of America's #1 Best-Selling Author|first=Lorenzo|last=Benet|date=15 August 1995|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=9780312955755|access-date=19 December 2016|via=Google Books}}
- Charles Richard Crane, industrialist, heir, and noted Arabist{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XVuOBYqw_vsC&dq=655&pg=PA220|title=The Life and Times of Charles R. Crane, 1858–1939: American Businessman, Philanthropist, and a Founder of Russian Studies in America|first=Norman E.|last=Saul|date=21 December 2012|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=9780739177464|access-date=19 December 2016|via=Google Books}}
- Schuyler Chapin, art patron and general manager of the Metropolitan Opera{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=schuyler-chapin&pid=124992560|title=Schuyler Chapin's Obituary on New York Times|work=legacy.com|access-date=19 December 2016}}
- William Coley, cancer researcher"Dr. Mrs. William BradIey Coley of 655 Park Avenue", NY Times, May 30, 1928
- Barbara Goldsmith,New York Observer, December 15, 1997, "Barbara Goldsmith Leaves the Woolworth Apartment: A Newhouse Steps In" author, journalist, and philanthropist
- Admiral Joseph J. ("Jocko") Clark, United States Navy{{Cite news|date=1971-07-14|title=Adm. J. J. Clark, Commander Of Fleets in Pacific, Dies at 77|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/14/archives/adm-j-j-clark-commander-of-fleets-in-pacific-dies-at-77.html|access-date=2023-03-18|issn=0362-4331}}
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |last=Alpern |first=Andrew |date=1996 |title=Historic Manhattan Apartment Houses |publisher=Dover Publications |pages=36–40 |isbn=978-0486288727}}
- {{cite book |last=Lynch |first=Geoffrey |date=2014|title=Manhattan Classic: New York's Finest Prewar Apartments |publisher=Princeton Architectural Press |page=14 |isbn=978-1616891671}}
- {{cite book |last=Alpern |first=Andrew |date=2002 |title=The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter |publisher=Acanthus Press |pages=128–129 |isbn=978-0926494206}}
External links
- [https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/park-fifth-ave-79th-st/655-park-avenue/review/7914 655 Park Avenue review at www.cityrealty.com]
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Category:Residential buildings completed in 1924