Jerome Mansion
Coordinates: 40°44′33″N 73°59′11″W / 40.742445°N 73.986332°W
| Jerome Mansion | |
|---|---|
 The Jerome Mansion, torn down in 1967 | |
| General information | |
| Location | 32 East 26th Street (Manhattan) |
| Construction started | 1859 |
| Completed | 1865 |
| Cost | US$200,000 |
| Owner | Leonard Jerome |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Thomas R. Jackson |
| References | |
| [1] | |
The Jerome Mansion was the home of financier Leonard Jerome, one of the richest and most influential men in New York City in the middle- to late-19th century, and a frequent business partner of Cornelius Vanderbilt.[2] The mansion was located on the corner of East 26th Street and Madison Avenue, across from Madison Square Park. It was built from 1859 to 1865. [1]
History
The six-story mansion featured a mansard roof, which was all the rage at the time,[3] a six hundred-seat theatre, a breakfast room which could serve up to seventy people, a white and gold ballroom with champagne and cologne fountains,[4] and a "splendid" view of the park. Jerome's daughter, Jennie Jerome, who grew up in the mansion, later became Lady Randolph Churchill, the mother of Winston Churchill.
When Jerome moved uptown, the mansion was sold and housed a series of private clubs including the Union League Club from 1868 to 1881, the University club, the Turf club, and from 1899, the Manhattan Club,[5] a bastion of Democratic politicians such as Samuel J. Tilden, Grover Cleveland, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Alfred E. Smith.[6] On November 23, 1869, the Jerome Mansion was the site of the meeting that founded the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[7]
The building was given landmark status in 1965, but when the owner was unable to find a buyer for it after two years, it was permitted to be torn down in 1967, to be replaced by the New York Merchandise Mart.[8]
See also
References
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "LEONARD W. JEROME MANSION, HABS No. NY 5470". Historic American Building Survey.
- ↑ Burrows & Wallace
- ↑ Burrows & Wallace
- ↑ Burrows & Wallace, p. 960
- ↑ Henry Watterson (1915). History of the Manhattan Club: A Narrative of the Activities of Half a Century. De Vinne Press. pp. 72–. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
- ↑ "Famous Manhattan Club Is Fifty Years Old: Since Its Founding in 1865 the Noted Democratic Organization Has Many Times Played a Prominent Part in the History of New York.". New York Times. 10 October 1915.
- ↑ "The Founding of the Museum of Art", New York Times (December 9, 1894)
- ↑ Mendelsohn, Joyce. Touring the Flatiron. New York: New York Landmarks Conservancy, 1998. ISBN 0-964-7061-2-1 p. 26
Bibliography
- Burrows, Edwin G. & Wallace, Mike (1999). Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195116348.
External links
Media related to Jerome Mansion at Wikimedia Commons- "The Lost 1859 Leonard Jerome Mansion -- Madison Avenue at 26th Street". Dayton in Manhattan. October 24, 2011.
- "The Leonard Jerome Mansion". The Gilded Age Era. January 24, 2013.