655 Park Avenue
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General information
TypeHousing cooperative
Architectural styleGeorgian Architecture
Location655 Park Avenue, Lenox Hill, Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Completed1924
Technical details
Floor count11
Design and construction
Architect(s)J.E.R. Carpenter, Mott B. Schmidt

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.[1]

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.[2] 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.[3] This "Battle for Suitable Scale at 655 Avenue" is described in Andrew Alpern's book Historic Manhattan Apartment Houses.[4] 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[5] 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

See also

References

  1. ^ "About Mott Schmidt - Introduction". mottschmidt.com. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  2. ^ a b c "655 Park Avenue, Building Review". cityrealty.com. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  3. ^ "Streetscapes: 655 Park Avenue; Letting the Sunlight In". The New York Times. 22 November 1992. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  4. ^ Andrew Alpern, "Historic Manhattan Apartment Houses," (Dover Publications Inc., 1996), Chapter 8: "Appropriate Apartments: Battle for Suitable Scale at 655 Avenue.", pages 36-40
  5. ^ Finn, Robin (1 August 2014). "A Park Avenue Penthouse for $11.5 Million". Retrieved 5 July 2017 – via NYTimes.com.
  6. ^ Benet, Lorenzo (15 August 1995). The Lives of Danielle Steel: The Unauthorized Biography of America's #1 Best-Selling Author. Macmillan. ISBN 9780312955755. Retrieved 19 December 2016 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ Saul, Norman E. (21 December 2012). The Life and Times of Charles R. Crane, 1858–1939: American Businessman, Philanthropist, and a Founder of Russian Studies in America. Lexington Books. ISBN 9780739177464. Retrieved 19 December 2016 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ "Schuyler Chapin's Obituary on New York Times". legacy.com. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  9. ^ "Dr. Mrs. William BradIey Coley of 655 Park Avenue", NY Times, May 30, 1928
  10. ^ New York Observer, December 15, 1997, "Barbara Goldsmith Leaves the Woolworth Apartment: A Newhouse Steps In"
  11. ^ "Adm. J. J. Clark, Commander Of Fleets in Pacific, Dies at 77". The New York Times. 1971-07-14. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-03-18.

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