Oliver Gould Jennings House

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Interior of the bel étage, before renovation in 2007

The Oliver Gould Jennings House is a mansion located at 7 East 72nd Street on the Upper East Side of New York City. It was originally constructed in 1898 for Oliver Gould Jennings in the French Beaux-Arts style. It was used as a temporary location of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from 1956 to 1959. [1] In 1964, it became part of the Lycée Français de New York in the neighboring Henry T. Sloane House. [2]

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The mansion was in turn vacated by the school when it was sold and renovated to become a luxurious single-family home again. [3] [4] The purchaser of the building was Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the (now former) Emir of Qatar, who bought the mansion and the neighboring Henry T. Sloane House around 2004. [5] [6]

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References

  1. Stern, Robert A. M.; Mellins, Thomas; Fishman, David (1995). New York 1960: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Second World War and the Bicentennial . New York: Monacelli Press. p. 814. ISBN   1-885254-02-4. OCLC   32159240. OL   1130718M.
  2. "Streetscapes/9 East 72nd Street; A School's Grand House That Could Be Private Again – New York Times". Nytimes.com. January 7, 2001. Retrieved November 8, 2013.
  3. Christopher Gray. "Stirrings of a Throwback Kind". The New York Times . Retrieved November 8, 2013.
  4. "Corcoran, 9 East 72nd Street, Upper East Side Real Estate, Manhattan For Sale, Homes, Upper East Side Townhouse, Carrie Chiang, Sharon Baum". Corcoran.com. October 21, 2013. Retrieved November 8, 2013.
  5. "Renovated Mega-Mansion Ready to Rule the Upper East Side". Curbed. July 21, 2010. Retrieved December 26, 2016.
  6. "Qatar Is On an Upper East Side Townhouse Tear". The Observer. February 3, 2014. Retrieved December 26, 2016.

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