The Willard D. Straight House was designed by the firm of Delano & Aldrich in the neo-Georgian style and completed in 1915. Straight, an American diplomat, and his wife, the philanthropist Dorothy Payne Whitney, founded the New Republic magazine in 1914. Whitney sold the house in 1927, nine years after her husband’s death. From 1973-1999, 1130 Fifth Avenue was the headquarters of the International Center of Photography.