| 930 Fifth Avenue | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Cooperative apartments |
| Architectural style | Classicizing Modern |
| Location | Upper East Side,Manhattan,New York City,U.S. |
| Coordinates | 40°46′26″N73°57′56″W / 40.773814°N 73.965561°W /40.773814; -73.965561 |
| Completed | 1940 |
| Owner | Fifth Avenue Apartments, Inc. |
| Height | 210.44 feet (64.14 m) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 19 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Emery Roth |
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930 Fifth Avenue is a luxury apartment building onFifth Avenue on the northeast corner ofEast 74th Street on theUpper East Side ofManhattan,New York City. The eighteen-story structure and penthouse was designed by noted architectEmery Roth and built in 1940.[2][3][4][5] According to architecture criticPaul Goldberger, 930 and875 Fifth Avenue show Roth in transition from historicist to modernArt Deco style.[6]
The Fifth Avenue location previously held three private residences which were the estates ofGordon S. Rentschler,Jacob Schiff andSimeon B. Chapin, and were bought byPercy andHarold D. Uris and razed for the new building,[7][8] which has been described as featuring "a restrainedItalian Renaissance style."[7] The building is located within theUpper East Side Historic District.
A 1978 review of Roth's work by architecture criticPaul Goldberger inThe New York Times commented that "the Roth firm took on modernism slowly--the Normandy apartments of 1938 at 140 Riverside Drive have an Art Deco-like base, but the ornamental housing for the water tower lurches back suddenly to the Italian Renaissance. There were a few other such schizophrenic designs from the 1930s and buildings such as 930 Fifth Avenue and 875 Fifth Avenue of 1940 show a gradual disappearance of the old ornament."[9]
In 1981, theTimes remarked of the residential buildings constructed by theUris Brothers, "930 Fifth Avenue,2 Sutton Place, and880 Fifth Avenue, are among the city's best residential addresses today."[10] Residents of the building have includedSamuel and Bella Spewack,Patrick Dennis,Cornelius Vander Starr,Ira Millstein,[11]Risë Stevens,Nancy Hanks,Woody Allen[12] andEldridge Haynes.[3][13][14][15][16][17]
40°46′26″N73°57′56″W / 40.773814°N 73.965561°W /40.773814; -73.965561