Virginia Fair Vanderbilt House
60 East 93rd Street | Carnegie Hill | built 1931
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- 1931
Virginia Fair Vanderbilt builds a Louis XV-style mansion
Virginia Graham Fair Vanderbilt, who divorced William K. Vanderbilt II in 1927, buys three adjoining lots at 60-64 East 93rd Street in 1930 and hires architect John Russell Pope to design a fifty-room limestone mansion in the Louis XV style, completed in 1931.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1933
Virginia Vanderbilt's son dies in a car accident at 26
In 1933, Virginia Fair Vanderbilt's twenty-six-year-old son, William Kissam Vanderbilt III, dies in a car accident. She dies herself of pneumonia two years later, in 1935, leaving an estate valued at nearly seven million dollars.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1978
The Lycée Français de New York buys the former Vanderbilt mansion
The Lycée Français de New York purchases 60 East 93rd Street in 1978 for $680,000, using the former Vanderbilt mansion for classes until moving to a new building around 2000. Antiques firm Carlton Hobbs later buys the property in 2002 for $10.6 million and completes a restoration by 2004.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt HouseWikipedia
- The Virginia Fair Vanderbilt House - No. 60 East 93rd StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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