930 Fifth Avenue
930 5th Avenue | also 931 5th Avenue, 3 East 74th Street, 933N 5th Avenue | Upper East Side | built 1940
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1887
Dry-goods merchant James McCreery's corner mansion, with a peaked tower, is nearly finished
On the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 74th Street, where 930 Fifth Avenue now stands, James McCreery replaced a house built by New-York Life Insurance, which had foreclosed on it and sold it to him for $28,000. By January 29, 1887, the Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide described his new three-story brick house with brownstone trim and a peaked tower as nearly finished.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1891
Dr. Edward L. Keyes buys the McCreery mansion for $170,000
On September 12, 1891, McCreery sold the four-year-old mansion that then stood on this corner to the urologist Dr. Edward Loughborough Keyes for $170,000, with title put in his wife Sarah's name. While the McCreerys had used the address No. 1 East 74th Street, Sarah gradually switched to the grander 930 Fifth Avenue address.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1907
Stockbroker Simeon Brooks Chapin and his wife buy the corner mansion from Dr. Keyes
Dr. Keyes bought a mansion at 28 East 75th Street in November 1906 and sold his house on this corner to Simeon Brooks Chapin and his wife, Elizabeth, in January 1907. Chapin, a stock broker and real estate investor, had started his firm S. B. Chapin and Co. in Chicago in 1901 and brought its operations to New York the year before the purchase. The couple had four children.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1922
Seventy-five children gather here to organize a war-orphan relief auxiliary
The New York Times reported on January 27, 1922 that the day before, at Mrs. Simeon B. Chapin's home at 930 Fifth Avenue, in the house that preceded the present building, young people had formed a junior group of the American McAll Association's New York branch. Her daughter Virginia hosted 75 boys and girls from private schools, who voted to support war orphans in France.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1924
A burst 36-inch water main floods the Chapin basement and its neighbors
In December 1924 a 36-inch water main burst at Fifth Avenue and 75th Street, flooding the cellars of several of Manhattan's grandest mansions. The Times reported nearly a foot of water in the basement of the Chapin house on this corner, and said the neighborhood's flooded halls and basements cost residents thousands of dollars in ruined antiques, rugs and furniture.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1928
Chapin buys the house next door to plan an apartment building with a duplex for himself
The New York Times reported on March 9, 1928 that Chapin had bought Robertson Trowbridge's house next door at 3 East 74th Street and planned an apartment house from designs by Electus D. Litchfield. The new co-op was to have duplex apartments, and Chapin reserved one for himself and his wife. The Chapin house itself stood until 1940.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1940
Emery Roth's apartment building replaces three Fifth Avenue mansions
The Uris brothers, Percy and Harold, bought the former properties of Gordon S. Rentschler, Jacob Schiff and Simeon B. Chapin and razed them for Emery Roth's apartment house, built in 1940. Paul Goldberger later saw 930 Fifth and 875 Fifth as showing the Roth firm shedding historical ornament as it moved toward modernism.
Source: Wikipedia
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