| Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont House | |
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 The mansion in 1909 | |
 Interactive map of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont House | |
| General information | |
| Architectural style | Neoclassical architecture |
| Location | Manhattan,New York City |
| Opened | 1909 |
| Demolished | 1951 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Hunt & Hunt |
TheMrs. O. H. P. Belmont House was amansion located at 477Madison Avenue on the northeast corner of51st Street inMidtown Manhattan,New York City,New York, United States. The building was demolished in 1951.
The house was completed in 1909 for socialiteAlva Belmont, the widow ofOliver Belmont. It was designed byHunt & Hunt, formed by the partnership of the lateRichard Morris Hunt's sons Richard and Joseph. Theneoclassical three-story townhouse had a limestone facade and interior rooms in aneclectic mix of styles.
Construction was still underway when Oliver Belmont died, and Alva announced that she would build an addition that was an exact reproduction of the Gothic Room inBelcourt Castle, to house her late husband's collection of medieval and early Renaissance armor. The room, dubbed The Armory, measured 85 by 24 feet (25.9 by 7.3 m) and was the largest room in the house. She and her youngest son,Harold, moved into the house in 1909. The Armory would later be used as a lecture hall for womensuffragists. She sold the townhouse in 1923.[1][2]
The mansion was then used by theCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York until the church sold it in 1951. The new owners –real-estate developers – chose to level the whole building in anticipation of a building project. In the meantime, the empty lot was used as a parking lot. The site is now occupied by a 23-story office tower designed byKahn & Jacobs, constructed between 1952 and 1953.[3]
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