| 1020 Fifth Avenue | |
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| Alternative names | 1020 5th |
| General information | |
| Type | Housing cooperative |
| Architectural style | Renaissance Revival |
| Location | 1020 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, 1020Fifth Avenue on83rd Street, New York City, United States |
| Completed | 1925 |
| Owner | 1020 Fifth Avenue Corporation |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 13 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architecture firm | Warren & Wetmore |
1020 Fifth Avenue is a luxuryhousing cooperative on theUpper East Side ofManhattan, New York City. It is located on the northeast corner of 83rd Street andFifth Avenue, across the street from theMetropolitan Museum of Art'sFifth Avenue building. It is part of the Metropolitan Museum Historic District.[1] Along with1040 Fifth Avenue and998 Fifth Avenue, it is considered among the most prestigious residential buildings in New York City and is frequently included in lists of top residential buildings.[2] Sales of units in the building are often reported by the press.[3][4][5][6] FormerNew York Times architectural critic Carter Horsley describes the building as "[o]ne of the supreme residential buildings of New York".[7] The building is profiled in multiple architectural books, including inWindows on the Park: New York's most prestigious properties on Central Park, where it is described as "one of the city's most exclusive addresses".[8]
1020 Fifth Avenue was completed in 1925 and was designed byWarren and Wetmore. The building has 13 stories, consisting mostly of full floor units or duplexes.[7] The building occupies a corner site that was once the site of the mansion of Civil War generalRichard Arnold.[1] The building's exterior has neo-Italian Renaissance style ornamentation with a three-story high rusticated base. The main entrance to the building faces East 83rd Street rather thanFifth Avenue. An entrance on Fifth Avenue provides access to a maisonette unit, which has its own address of 1022 Fifth Avenue.[9] The building's floors are designed in a staggered manner as to allow six of the apartments to have large salons that are 20' 9" by 40' 2" in floor area with extra high ceilings ranging from fourteen to eighteen feet (see layout diagram).[9]
Notable current and former residents at 1020 Fifth Avenue have included socialiteGeorgette Mosbacher,[4][6]Russian Nobility,[10] business tycoonWard Melville,[11] hedge fund manager andCouncil on Foreign Relations board member Stephen Cyrus Freidheim,[5] hotel developerRichard Born,[12] and business tycoonSamuel Henry Kress[13][14] and American socialiteFrances Ellen Work who was the great-great-grandmother of British princesWilliam andHarry[15] along with American actorOliver Platt.[16]
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