35 West 57th Street

Midtown | built 1920

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

1. 1891

   A Beaux Arts wedding-gift mansion is built on the site

   Margaret Vanderbilt Shepard builds a French-style townhouse at what is now 35 West 57th Street in 1891 as a wedding gift for her daughter Maria and new son-in-law, William Jay Schieffelin. The house features a two-story bowed window and ornate Beaux Arts detailing, and its completion is marked with a wedding breakfast for 600 guests.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1899

   February 19

   Samuel Bowne buys the West 57th Street townhouse

   Samuel W. Bowne, who made his fortune manufacturing Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil, purchases the townhouse on February 19, 1899, and moves in with his wife Nettie the following year. Bowne becomes a noted philanthropist before his death in October 1910.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

Further reading

• The 1920 Sohmer Piano Bldg. -- No. 31 West 57th StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
• The 1891 Schieffelin-Bowne House -- 35 West 57th StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
• The 57th Street mansion built as a wedding giftEphemeral New York

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