Morton F. Plant House

The Morton F. Plant House is a mansion located at 653 Fifth Avenue (at 52nd Street) in New York City. Since 1917, Cartier SA has occupied the building.

History

The 1905 Neo-Renaissance mansion of Morton Freeman Plant (son of railroad tycoon Henry B. Plant) was designed by the architects Robert W. Gibson and C. P. H. Gilbert. Cartier SA acquired the mansion from the Plants in 1917, in exchange for $100 in cash and a double-stranded natural pearl necklace valued at the time at $1 million.^[1]

References

Further reading

• Kathrens, Michael C. (2005). Great Houses of New York, 1880-1930. New York: Acanthus Press. p. 287. ISBN 978-0-926494-34-3. 

External links

Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Morton_F._Plant_House Morton F. Plant House] at Wikimedia Commons

• The Midtown Book | The Cartier Building (formerly the Morton F. Plant townhouse)