McCready House

4 East 75th Street | Upper East Side | built 1899

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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. 1896

    January

    Trowbridge, Colt and Livingston complete the McCready mansion

    Stockbroker Nathaniel L. McCready Jr. and his wife Jeanne Borrowe McCready built a 50-foot-wide mansion on two lots at Nos. 4 and 6 East 75th Street, designed by Trowbridge, Colt & Livingston. Completed in January 1896, the four-story limestone house was a severe adaptation of French Renaissance domestic architecture, with a dormered top floor, an iron balcony across the second floor and a porte-cochere.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1919

    January

    The Salvation Army opens a wartime rest house for soldiers

    After V. Everit and Edith Macy bought the mansion in 1917, the Salvation Army converted it into the "Sunshine Rest House," offering World War I soldiers lodging for 25 cents a night.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1940

    IBM's Thomas J. Watson buys the house and entertains heads of state

    Thomas J. Watson of IBM bought the house in 1940 and used it to entertain heads of state from the United Kingdom, Greece, Brazil and Uruguay. He died in 1956, and the house was then sold to Eva Fox, widow of film producer William Fox.

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 1964

    Rebekah Harkness turns the mansion into the Harkness Ballet's home

    Philanthropist Rebekah Harkness bought the mansion in 1964 and converted it into a cultural center with a ballet school, which became home to the Harkness Ballet Foundation. On New Year's Eve 1967, Woody Allen hosted a party there that guests such as Mick Jagger and Bette Midler attended.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 2011

    Larry Gagosian buys the mansion for a gut renovation

    Art dealer Larry Gagosian bought the landmarked mansion in 2011 for roughly $36 million, after investor J. Christopher Flowers had paid $53 million for it in 2006. Gagosian's renovation demolished the interior while keeping the protected limestone facade.

    Source: Wikipedia

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