New India House

3 East 64th Street | Upper East Side | built 1903

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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. 1903

    Warren and Wetmore build a Beaux-Arts mansion for the Wilsons

    Marshall Orme Wilson and his wife Carrie Astor Wilson, daughter of society doyenne Caroline Astor, commissioned Warren and Wetmore to design their limestone Beaux-Arts mansion. Begun in 1900, the five-story house was completed in 1903 with a slate-and-copper mansard roof and forty rooms filled with imported French materials.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1904

    Caruso and Nordica sing at the Wilsons' housewarming

    The Wilsons marked the completion of their new mansion with a 1904 housewarming attended by 300 guests and entertained by opera stars Enrico Caruso and Lillian Nordica. The house went on to host charity events, including tableaux vivants in 1913 and a 1916 benefit for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1948

    September 13

    Carrie Astor Wilson dies at 87, ending the family's time in the mansion

    Carrie Astor Wilson died on September 13, 1948, at the age of 87, forty-four years after she opened the house to its first guests. Her husband Marshall Orme Wilson had died in the house in 1926, and she had stayed on there with her staff.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1948

    December

    The Government of India buys the mansion as New India House

    Three months after Carrie Wilson's death, the Government of India purchased the mansion in December 1948 for its diplomatic offices, renaming it New India House. Architect William Lescaze renovated the interiors in 1952 while the exterior remained unchanged, and the building still serves as the Consulate General of India.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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