Henry P. Davison House

690 Park Avenue | also 54 East 69th Street | Upper East Side | built 1916

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.

1917
Henry P. Davison completes a mansion at Park Avenue and 69th Street
J.P. Morgan & Co. senior partner Henry P. Davison hired Walker & Gillette to design a five-story neo-Federal house of red Flemish bond brick over limestone, which the Tribune priced at $200,000. It included a garage on Park Avenue with a turntable. Davison soon became chairman of the American Red Cross War Council, and he died in 1922.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1922
January
Alice Davison marries Artemus Gates at the family house
Henry Davison's daughter Alice was wed to Artemus Gates at the Park Avenue mansion. The family later leased the house to Marshall Field. Davison's widow sold it to Anson Wood Burchard in 1925.
Source: Wikipedia
1955
July
Italy's consulate general moves into the former Davison house
After the Davisons, the house belonged to Anson Wood Burchard, then his widow Allene, and later Harry Payne Bingham. In July 1955 the Consulate General of Italy moved in, and it was still there in 2024. The building was designated a New York City landmark in November 1970.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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