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2 East 70th Street ca. Designed by Rosario Candela and the firm Walker & Gillette, 2 East 70th Street stands on the site of the Blair Mansion, a marble home built by Carrere & Hastings that survived for less than a decade before being torn down. Candela styled 2 East 70th street to take after the mansion in order to complement the Frick collection across the street. The simple stone clad design and quoined corners intended to leave a classic yet elegant impression.
Rosario Candela's Buildings Across the City
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Rosario Candela played a major role in shaping the architectural legacy of 20th-century Manhattan: the distinctive "prewar apartment buildings that define the cityscapes of streets like Park and Fifth Avenues and Sutton Place." Even today, almost a century after they were built, Candela's buildings rank among the most prized in the city.
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Lenox Library
\[Lenox Library, 5th Ave. & 70th St., 1897.]
Lenox Library
\[Lenox Library, 5th Ave. & 70th St., 1901.]
2 East 70th Street
2 East 70th Street at 5th Avenue. C. Ledyard Blair Residence, general exterior.
9 East 70th Street
9 East 70th Street. Dr. Walter James residence.
2 East 70th Street
2 East 70th Street. Blair residence, detail of entrance.
885 Fifth Avenue
883 5th Avenue. Griswold residence.
2 East 70th Street
2 East 70th Street at the S.E. corner of 5th Avenue. Apartments, formerly C. Ledyard Blair residence, general view.
2 East 70th Street
2 East 70th Street at the S.E. corner of 5th Avenue. Apartments, formerly C. Ledyard Blair residence, detail, entrance.
885 Fifth Avenue
Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 69th Street (1) Fifth Avenue adjoining the northeast corner at 29th Street, is the residence of Mrs. Mary Harriman. (2) Same, showing the Griswold and Jennings residences. (3) Fifth Avenue east side adjoining southeast corner at East 70th Street, looking, southwards are the Evelyn S. Griswold, Oliver G. Jennings, and Adolph Lewisohn residences. P.L.Spcer. NO ERiObU:TIONS July 10, 1939.
885 Fifth Avenue
Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 69th Street (1) Fifth Avenue adjoining the northeast corner at 29th Street, is the residence of Mrs. Mary Harriman. (2) Same, showing the Griswold and Jennings residences. (3) Fifth Avenue east side adjoining southeast corner at East 70th Street, looking, southwards are the Evelyn S. Griswold, Oliver G. Jennings, and Adolph Lewisohn residences. P.L.Spcer. NO ERiObU:TIONS July 10, 1939.
Lenox Library
Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 70th Street The Lenox Library, Fifth Avenue, east side, from 70th to 71st Streets. This library was founded by a wealthy and eccentric bibliophile and collector who, after arousing considerable public feeling by refusing to let the historian Prescott consult certain documents in his collection suddenly opened his library to the public and created a trust fund to assure its continuation after his death. The Lenox Library has combined with the Astor and Tilden foundations to form the New York Public Library, and will move into the new building, which is now under construction on the site of the Fifth Avenue reservoir, around 1910. Henry Clay Frick will build his mansion on this site, and in 1935 this mansion will be converted into a public art gallery. 1905\. August Loeffler, from P. L. Sperr Collection.
Lenox Library
Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 70th Street Fifth Avenue, e.s., from East 70th to 71st Street, showing the Lenox Library, erected 1875 by James Lenox. H. N. Tiemann photo May 1909 Neg. # 1301
Lenox Library
New York. Lenox Library. Primary subject: Currently Frick Collection
Lenox Library
Lenox Library, N.Y. City. Primary subject: Currently Frick Collection
Lenox Library
Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 70th Street Lenox Library, Fifth Avenue, East Side, from 70th to 71st Streets. Built in 1875 from funds donated by James Lenox, whose collection of books, manuscripts, missels (?),incunabula, etc., was made in this way available to the public, it stood until around 1912; when the library was consolidated with the Astor Library to form the New York Public Library. The building was then demolished, and the mansion of Henry Clay Frick erected on the site. The Tonnele' Co., Photographers. MAY BE REPRODUCED
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