30 5th Avenue

also 28 5th Avenue | Greenwich Village | built 1923

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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. 1850

    Detlef Lienau builds a mansion for the banker Hart M. Shiff with the first mansard roof on Fifth Avenue

    An earlier building on this site: the corner house at No. 32 Fifth Avenue was designed in 1850 by Detlef Lienau, a Danish-born architect who had arrived in 1848, for Hart M. Shiff, a French banker. It was a three-story brick mansion with a balustraded stoop and a mansard roof. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's report says it was the avenue's first house with a mansard roof and probably the city's first. It was later bought by Amos R. Eno.

    “It had the first mansard roof to appear on the Avenue, and probably the first in the City.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1915

    October 21

    Amos F. Eno dies in the Fifth Avenue mansion and leaves his New York prints and maps to the public library

    An earlier building on this site: the old Shiff mansion at No. 32 became the home of the real-estate magnate Amos R. Eno and his bachelor son. When Amos F. Eno died there suddenly at 81 on October 21, 1915, his will left the New York Public Library $50,000 and the books, prints and engravings on New York in the house. The Times said it made the library the holder of one of the best collections of old New York material in the country.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1923

    Schwartz & Gross replace three town houses with a 15-story neo-Federal apartment house

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    Schwartz & Gross designed No. 30 Fifth Avenue in 1923 as a dark red-brick, 15-story apartment house in the neo-Federal style, with pilasters and terra-cotta urns and swags around the arched windows. It replaced the Shiff mansion and a pair of twin houses at Nos. 28 and 30, which Henry J. Hardenbergh had designed in 1883-84 for J. H. Gautier.

    “…designed in the Neo-Federal style by Schwartz & Gross in 1923…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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