Clarence Whitman Mansion

7 East 76th Street | Upper East Side | built 1898

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1898
Parish and Schroeder design twin mansions for Mrs. Schieffelin
Mrs. E. Schieffelin bought adjoining lots on East 76th Street in 1897 and 1898 and commissioned architects Parish & Schroeder to build a pair of matching neo-Renaissance mansions. The house that became No. 7 was originally numbered 5 East 76th Street.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1899
June 10
Lace importer Clarence Whitman buys the new mansion
Wealthy lace and embroidery importer Clarence Whitman purchased the house and hired architect Charles Alonzo Rich to make $10,000 of alterations, filed June 10, 1899. His son Clarence Morton Whitman, a Harvard graduate, married Eleanor Motley at St. Thomas's Church in November 1903.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1990
Philanthropist Bungo Shimada buys the mansion
Bungo Shimada, a Japanese philanthropist, bought the mansion in 1990. Before that it had belonged to art dealer Sam Salz from the 1940s to the 1970s.
Source: Wikipedia

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