1020 Fifth Avenue

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1020 Fifth Avenue
1020 Fifth Avenue
Alternative names1020 5th
General information
Type Housing cooperative
Architectural style Renaissance Revival
Location1020 Fifth Avenue on 83rd Street
Address1020 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10028
Town or cityNew York City
CountryUnited States
Completed1925
Owner1020 Fifth Avenue Corporation
Technical details
Floor count13
Design and construction
Architecture firm Warren & Wetmore

1020 Fifth Avenue is a luxury housing cooperative in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It is located on the northeast corner of 83rd Street and Fifth Avenue, across the street from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Fifth Avenue building. It is part of the Metropolitan Museum Historic District. [1] Along with 1040 Fifth Avenue, 998 Fifth Avenue and 1016 Fifth Avenue, it is considered among the most prestigious residential buildings in New York City and is frequently included in lists of top residential buildings. [2] Sales of units in the building are often reported by the press. [3] [4] [5] [6] Former New York Times architectural critic Carter Horsley describes the building as "[o]ne of the supreme residential buildings of New York". [7] The building is profiled in multiple architectural books, including in Windows on the Park: New York's most prestigious properties on Central Park, where it is described as "one of the city's most exclusive addresses". [8]

1020 Fifth Avenue was completed in 1925 and was designed by Warren and Wetmore. The building has 13 stories, consisting mostly of full floor units or duplexes. [7] The building occupies a corner site that was once the site of the mansion of Civil War general Richard Arnold. [1] The building's exterior has neo-Italian Renaissance style ornamentation with a three-story high rusticated base. The main entrance to the building faces East 83rd Street rather than Fifth Avenue. An entrance on Fifth Avenue provides access to a maisonette unit, which has its own address of 1022 Fifth Avenue. [9] The building's floors are designed in a staggered manner as to allow six of the apartments to have large salons that are 20' 9" by 40' 2" in floor area with extra high ceilings ranging from fourteen to eighteen feet (see layout diagram). [9]

Notable residents

Notable current and former residents at 1020 Fifth Avenue have included socialite Georgette Mosbacher, [4] [6] Russian Nobility, [10] business tycoon Ward Melville, [11] hedge fund manager and Council on Foreign Relations board member Stephen Cyrus Freidheim, [5] hotel developer Richard Born, [12] and business tycoon Samuel Henry Kress. [13]

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1925 Advertisement for 1020 Fifth Avenue
Architectural diagram showing layout of floors at 1020 Fifth Avenue. 1020 Fifth Avenue Ceiling Height Layout.png
Architectural diagram showing layout of floors at 1020 Fifth Avenue.

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