655 Park Avenue

655 Park Avenue
General information
Type Housing cooperative
Architectural style Georgian Architecture
Location 655 Park Avenue, Lenox Hill, Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Completed 1924
Technical details
Floor count 11
Design and construction
Architect J.E.R. Carpenter, Mott B. Schmidt

655 Park Avenue is a Georgian-style co-op residential building on Manhattan's Upper East Side, located on Park Avenue between 67th Street and 68th Street, adjacent to the Park Avenue Armory. It was developed in 1924 by Dwight P. Robinson & Company. The building at 655 Park Avenue was designed by architects James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter, Jr., often referred to by the initials "J.E.R. Carpenter", and Mott B. Schmidt. Carpenter is considered the leading architect for luxury residential high-rise buildings in New York City in the early 1900s, while Schmidt is known for his buildings in the American Georgian Classical style, including Sutton Place and houses for New York City's society figures and business elite.[1]

Building

655 Park Avenue is designed in the Georgian architectural style, with a limestone base on the lower floors, and brick masonry on the upper floors. The building is centered around a courtyard garden facing Park Avenue.[2] The building's staggered height design, considered unique for Park Avenue co-ops of its era, was a result of restrictions placed on the developer by a syndicate of owners of nearby mansions who sold the land on which 655 Park Avenue was built.[3] Andrew Alpern devotes an entire chapter in the book, "Historic Manhattan Apartment Houses", to the "Battle for Suitable Scale at 655 Avenue."[4] There are three wings, an 8-story wing on 67th Street, a 7-story wing on 68th Street, and the main mid-block building which is 11 stories. The building has a duplex penthouse with a 3000 sqft roof terrace,[5] in addition to lower terraces on top of the 68th Street wing and the 67th Street wing. 655 Park Avenue has entrances on 67th Street and 68th Street and full time doormen and elevator operators.

Notable residents

See also

References

  1. ↑ "About Mott Schmidt - Introduction". mottschmidt.com. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 "655 Park Avenue, Building Review". cityrealty.com. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  3. ↑ "Streetscapes: 655 Park Avenue; Letting the Sunlight In". The New York Times. 22 November 1992. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  4. ↑ Andrew Alpern, "Historic Manhattan Apartment Houses," (Dover Publications Inc., 1996), Chapter 8: "Appropriate Apartments: Battle for Suitable Scale at 655 Avenue.", pages 36-40
  5. ↑ Finn, Robin (1 August 2014). "A Park Avenue Penthouse for $11.5 Million". Retrieved 5 July 2017 – via NYTimes.com.
  6. ↑ Benet, Lorenzo (15 August 1995). "The Lives of Danielle Steel: The Unauthorized Biography of America's #1 Best-Selling Author". Macmillan. Retrieved 19 December 2016 – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ Saul, Norman E. (21 December 2012). "The Life and Times of Charles R. Crane, 1858–1939: American Businessman, Philanthropist, and a Founder of Russian Studies in America". Lexington Books. Retrieved 19 December 2016 – via Google Books.
  8. ↑ "Schuyler Chapin's Obituary on New York Times". legacy.com. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  9. ↑ "Dr. Mrs. William BradIey Coley of 655 Park Avenue", NY Times, May 30, 1928
  10. ↑ New York Observer, December 15, 1997, "Barbara Goldsmith Leaves the Woolworth Apartment: A Newhouse Steps In"

Coordinates: 40°46′06″N 73°57′56″W / 40.768243°N 73.965569°W / 40.768243; -73.965569

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