Harperly Hall

1 West 64th Street | also 41 Central Park West | Lincoln Square | built 1910

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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

  1. 1911

    Architect Henry Wilkinson builds the Upper West Side's first cooperative apartment house

    Henry W. Wilkinson designed Harperly Hall for a corporation whose directors included three Wilkinsons, and named it for a family manor house near Lanchester, England. The Arts and Crafts building, planned at twelve stories on a 100-by-150-foot plot for about $1.2 million, was finished in 1911. It was the first Upper West Side apartment building run as a cooperative, and each owner worked out the layout with the architect, so no two apartments matched.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1915

    May 7

    Art dealer Charles Fowles and his wife die in the sinking of the Lusitania

    Charles F. Fowles, who founded the Fifth Avenue art dealership Scott and Fowles, lived at Harperly Hall with his wife. The couple boarded the RMS Lusitania for the voyage home on May 1, 1915. The German submarine U-20 torpedoed the ship six days later, and it sank within 18 minutes, taking both of them.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1922

    October 25

    Art patron Lloyd Warren is found dead in the delivery alley

    On October 25, 1922, a milkman found the body of Lloyd Warren, head of the Institute of Fine Arts and brother of architect Whitney Warren, in his pajamas in the building's delivery alley. Police first called it a suicide, but a deputy medical examiner soon declared it an accident, suggesting Warren had fallen from a window while sleepwalking. His brother blamed fits of vertigo.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1997

    Madonna lists her renovated Harperly Hall duplex for sale

    Singer Madonna renovated her 6,000-square-foot Harperly Hall duplex to include a beauty parlor and a steam room, and it has six bedrooms and eight bathrooms. After moving to a much larger townhouse in 1997, she listed it for $6.75 million, later lowering the price to $6.25 million. It did not sell until 2013, when it went for $32.5 million.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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