View looking S.E. from street on the north side of 59th Street near [Central] Park to empty plot on the south side of 58th Street just west of Bergdorf Goodman.
Museum of the City of New YorkBergdorf Goodman ARCHITECT: Buchman & Kahn DATE: 1927-28 STYLE: Modern Classical
The site, which was the former location of Cornelius Vanderbilt II’s mansion, was purchased by the real estate developer Frederick Brown in 1926. Brown developed the site from 1927-1928 to read as separate, but aesthetically unified, buildings. Ely Jacques Kahn, one of the most important New York architects of the 20th century, designed the buildings in the Modern Classical style. His design incorporated classicizing elements of French architecture and harmonized with the other buildings on the Grand Army Plaza.
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