907 Fifth Avenue

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907 Fifth Avenue
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907 Fifth Avenue
907 Fifth Avenue
General information
StatusCompleted
TypeResidential
Architectural style Italian Renaissance
Location Fifth Avenue and 72nd Street
Country United States
Coordinates 40°46′19.5″N73°58′01″W / 40.772083°N 73.96694°W / 40.772083; -73.96694
Current tenants44 units
Completed1915
Technical details
Floor count12
Design and construction
Architect(s) J. E. R. Carpenter

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. [1] 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. [2] The building won him the 1916 gold medal of the American Institute of Architects. [3]

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. [4] When it opened, there were two 12-room apartments on most floors. [1]

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