1 Sutton Place

also 501 East 57th Street | Sutton Place | built 1920

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1. 1921

   Anne Vanderbilt hires Mott Schmidt to remake her Sutton Place house

   In January 1921, months after the death of her husband William Kissam Vanderbilt, Anne Harriman Vanderbilt bought the 1875 brownstone at the corner of 57th Street and Sutton Place. She hired architect Mott B. Schmidt to strip its Victorian stoop and recast the house as a Georgian townhouse, adding an entrance hood modeled on a design by Sir Christopher Wren. The renovation, which began that March, cost about $75,000.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1940

   April 20

   Anne Harriman Vanderbilt, who remade 1 Sutton Place, dies

   Anne Harriman Vanderbilt, who had turned the Sutton Place corner house into a Georgian townhouse in 1921, died on April 20, 1940. She had entered New York Hospital three months earlier. Her funeral took place three days later at St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 1962

   October 31

   Arthur Houghton Jr. wins the house at auction

   The house was sold at an auction held on its premises on October 31, 1962, after it had stood shuttered following the 1959 death of art dealer Gustave Pierre Bader. About 200 people attended and 14 bids came in, among them a telephoned offer from actress Zsa Zsa Gabor. Arthur A. Houghton Jr., president of Steuben Glass, outbid the field.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

4. 1972

   Henry John Heinz 2d buys the Sutton Place house

   Henry John Heinz 2d, chairman of the H. J. Heinz Company, bought 1 Sutton Place in 1972 from Arthur Houghton Jr., who had leased it to a Dutch UN ambassador. Heinz died in 1987, and his wife Drue lived on in the house until her death in 2018 at age 103. The house is now home to Andrew Bolton, a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, and fashion designer Thom Browne.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

Further reading

• The Anne Harriman Vanderbilt House - 1 Sutton PlaceDaytonian in Manhattan
• The lavish porte cocheres of Gilded Age New YorkEphemeral New York

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