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New York
Architecture Images-Upper East Side Metropolitan Club Landmark |
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Stanford White of McKim, Mead and White, Ogden Codman Jr. (east wing) |
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1-11 E60, at Fifth Ave. |
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1893; 1912 (east wing) |
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Renaissance Revival |
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white marble |
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Club |
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| Fifth Avenue and its environs are dotted with the (traditionally men's) clubs which serviced, and still cater to, its mainly wealthy population. When J.P. Morgan, William and Cornelius Vanderbilt, and their pals arrived on the social scene in the 1890s, established society still looked askance at bankers and financiers, and its Downtown clubs were closed to Morgan and anyone else it considered less than up to snuff. Never to be slighted or outdone, Morgan commissioned Stanford White to design him his own club, bigger, better and grander than all the rest – and so the Metropolitan Club at 1 East 60th St was born, an exuberant confection with a marvelously outrageous gateway. Just the thing for arriving robber barons. | |
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