Seligman Mansion
30 West 56th Street | Midtown | built 1901
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- 1901
C. P. H. Gilbert designs a French Renaissance mansion for Henry Seligman
Banker Henry Seligman commissions architect C. P. H. Gilbert to build a limestone mansion on a double-wide lot at 30 West 56th Street. Construction runs from 1899 to 1901, giving Seligman and his wife Adelaide, married in March 1899, a home that costs about $200,000 to complete.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1914
The mansion hosts a 200-guest anti-suffrage rally
About 200 attendees fill the ballroom and spill into the halls of the Seligman mansion for an anti-suffrage meeting on April 2, 1914. The gathering reflects the intense public debate over women's voting rights in New York in the years before the state grants suffrage in 1917.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1935
The Beethoven Association turns the mansion into a musicians' clubhouse
After Henry Seligman's death in 1933 and his wife Adelaide's in 1934, the mansion is sold to Joseph Buttenweiser in February 1935. The Beethoven Association leases it as a clubhouse with apartments for musicians, repurposing the Gilded Age residence for New York's classical music scene.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 2007
The city designates the former Seligman mansion a landmark
New York City designates 30 West 56th Street a landmark on July 24, 2007, protecting C. P. H. Gilbert's French Renaissance Revival facade. By then the building has passed through decades of use as apartments, restaurants and fashion showrooms, including a run as offices for Alberta Ferretti's Aeffe USA starting in 1996.
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
- 30 West 56th StreetWikipedia
- The 1901 Seligman Mansion -- No. 30 West 56th St.Daytonian in Manhattan
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