810 Fifth Avenue

810 5th Avenue | also 811 5th Avenue | Upper East Side | built 1926

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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.

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  1. 1926

    J. E. R. Carpenter's 13-story limestone co-op replaces a Hamilton Fish house at 62nd Street

    Architect J. E. R. Carpenter designed 810 Fifth Avenue for the Bricken Construction Company, and it went up in 1926 where a house owned by Mrs. Hamilton Fish had stood. The 13-story limestone building follows an Italian Renaissance palazzo style. It holds just 12 apartments: a ground-floor maisonette, ten full-floor units and a multi-floor penthouse, each full-floor unit with a private elevator foyer.

    “…it was built in 1926 on the site of a house owned by Mrs. Hamilton Fish.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1960

    Nixon and Rockefeller strike the 'Treaty of Fifth Avenue' at 810 Fifth Avenue

    810 Fifth Avenue was the setting for the so-called Treaty of Fifth Avenue, in which Richard Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller settled on a policy agenda before the 1960 election. The deal set off a revolt among conservative Republicans, and Senator Barry Goldwater likened the meeting to Munich for the Republican Party.

    “810 Fifth Avenue was the location of the infamous Treaty of Fifth Avenue in which Nixon and Rockefeller agreed on a policy agenda…”

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1968

    Nixon, a resident since 1963, holds campaign meetings in his fifth-floor apartment, including one with Agnew

    Richard Nixon bought an apartment at 810 Fifth Avenue in 1963, years after the Treaty of Fifth Avenue. During the 1968 presidential contest he and Nelson Rockefeller, rivals who shared the building, used different elevators. Nixon held campaign meetings in his fifth-floor apartment, among them an early one with Spiro Agnew, the man who would become his vice president.

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 1979

    After Nelson Rockefeller's death in 1979, his 810 Fifth apartment is separated from a unit at 812 Fifth

    Nelson Rockefeller died in 1979. His apartment on the 12th floor of 810 Fifth Avenue had been connected to a 3,990-square-foot unit on the 15th floor of neighboring 812 Fifth Avenue. According to the 812 listing quoted by CooperatorNews, the two units were separated after his death.

    Source: cooperator.com

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