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[[File:East 72nd Street 001b.JPG|thumb|Henry T. Sloane House]] |
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[[File:East 72nd Street 002.JPG|thumb|Historical plaque]] |
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The '''Henry T. Sloane House''' is a [[mansion]] located at 9 [[East 72nd Street]] on the [[Upper East Side]] of the [[Boroughs of New York City|borough]] of [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]]. It was designed by [[Carrère and Hastings]] in the late [[French Renaissance architecture|French Renaissance]] style and built in 1894. |
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| name = Henry T. Sloane House |
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| alternate_names = 9 East 72nd Street |
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| image = E 72 St Sep 2022 10.jpg |
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| caption = The main facade on 72nd Street |
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| building_type = [[Mansion]] |
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| architectural_style = [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]] |
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| cost = |
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| client = [[Henry T. Sloane]] |
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| owner = [[Government of Qatar]] |
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| address = 9 East 72nd Street |
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| location_town = [[Manhattan]], New York |
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| location_country = United States |
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| coordinates = {{coord|40|46|20|N|73|57|58|W|region:US|display=it}} |
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| altitude = |
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| start_date = 1894 |
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| completion_date = 1896 |
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| floor_count = 5 |
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| floor_area = {{convert|45000|ft2}} (with [[7 East 72nd Street]]) |
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| architect = [[Carrère and Hastings]] |
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The '''Henry T. Sloane House''' is a [[mansion]] at 9 [[East 72nd Street]] on the [[Upper East Side]] of [[Manhattan]] in New York City. It is along 72nd Street's northern sidewalk between [[Fifth Avenue]] and [[Madison Avenue]]. The five-story building was designed by [[Carrère and Hastings]] in the French [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]] style, and was built from 1894 to 1896. The house, along with the neighboring structure at [[7 East 72nd Street]], has been owned since 2002 by the [[government of Qatar]], which has combined the two buildings into a single residence. |
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The facade is divided vertically into four [[Bay (architecture)|bays]] and is made of [[limestone]], rising four stories from the street. The facade includes [[Rustication (architecture)|rusticated]] limestone blocks on the first story, a colonnade of [[Ionic order|Ionic]] columns on the second and third stories, and a mansard roof on the fourth story. The house originally spanned {{Convert|25,363|ft2}}, with various living spaces on the second floor and bedrooms on the upper stories. After 7 and 9 East 72nd Street were combined, the residence included a swimming pool and a roof terrace. |
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It was originally constructed for [[Henry T. Sloane]], son of a founder of the carpet firm [[W. & J. Sloane]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Billionaire Alexander Rovt and historic mansion on Upper East Side.|url=http://www.bigapplesecrets.com/2013/09/billionaire-alexander-rovt-and-historic.html|website=Big Apple Secrets|accessdate=4 May 2016}}</ref> Starting in 1964, it housed the [[Lycée Français de New York]], along with its extensions in the neighboring [[Oliver Gould Jennings House]].<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/07/realestate/streetscapes-9-east-72nd-street-school-s-grand-house-that-could-be-private-again.html |title=Streetscapes/9 East 72nd Street; A School's Grand House That Could Be Private Again - New York Times |publisher=Nytimes.com |date=2001-01-07 |accessdate=2013-11-08}}</ref> |
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The building was originally constructed for the family of [[Henry T. Sloane]], son of the founder of the carpet firm [[W. & J. Sloane]]. Following an acrimonious divorce, Sloane abandoned the house in 1899, and the family of [[Joseph Pulitzer]] rented it the next year. In 1901 it was purchased by the banker [[James A. Stillman|James Stillman]], who lived there until his death in 1918. The house was then occupied by the carpet manufacturer [[John Sanford (1851–1939)|John Sanford]] and then by the Riker family. Starting in 1964, it housed the [[Lycée Français de New York]], along with its extensions in the neighboring mansion at 7 East 72nd Street. The house became a [[New York City designated landmark]] in 1977. The school vacated 7 and 9 East 72nd Street in 2002, when they were sold to [[Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani]], the [[Emir of Qatar]]. After the Qatari government finished renovating and combining the buildings in 2010, the two structures comprised New York City's largest single-family residence. |
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The mansion was in turn vacated by the school when it was sold and renovated to become a luxurious single-family home again.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/realestate/13streetscapes.html?_r=0|title=Stirrings of a Throwback Kind|author=Christopher Gray|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|accessdate=2013-11-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.corcoran.com/nyc/Listings/Display/153521 |title=Corcoran, 9 East 72nd Street, Upper East Side Real Estate, Manhattan For Sale, Homes, Upper East Side Townhouse, Carrie Chiang, Sharon Baum |publisher=Corcoran.com |date=2013-10-21 |accessdate=2013-11-08}}</ref> The purchaser of the building was [[Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani]], the (now former) [[Emir of Qatar]], who bought the mansion and the neighboring Oliver Gould Jennings House around 2004.<ref name=Curbed>{{cite web |title= Renovated Mega-Mansion Ready to Rule the Upper East Side |url= http://ny.curbed.com/2010/7/21/10508820/renovated-mega-mansion-ready-to-rule-the-upper-east-side |website= Curbed |date= 21 July 2010 |access-date= 26 December 2016}}</ref><ref name=Observer>{{cite web |title= Qatar Is On an Upper East Side Townhouse Tear|url= http://observer.com/2014/02/how-sheikh-qatar-is-on-an-upper-east-side-townhouse-tear/ |website= The Observer |date= 3 February 2014 |access-date= 26 December 2016}}</ref> |
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== Site == |
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The Henry T. Sloane House is at 9 East 72nd Street, along the northern side of [[72nd Street (Manhattan)|72nd Street]] between [[Fifth Avenue]] and [[Madison Avenue]], on the [[Upper East Side]] of [[Manhattan]] in New York City.<ref name="aia5">{{cite aia5|pages=440}}</ref> The house originally had a [[frontage]] of {{convert|59|ft}} on 72nd Street and a north–south depth of {{convert|102|ft}}.<ref name="The New York Times 1941 w019">{{cite web |date=August 12, 1941 |title=East Side Mansion in New Ownership; Residence Built in 1900 for Henry T. Sloane Is Sold by Sanford Interests |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/08/12/archives/east-side-mansion-in-new-ownership-residence-built-in-1900-for.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=The New York Times |archive-date=February 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224000821/https://www.nytimes.com/1941/08/12/archives/east-side-mansion-in-new-ownership-residence-built-in-1900-for.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="p1264864274">{{cite news |date=August 12, 1941 |title=Real Estate News in the City and Suburbs: Sanford House In East 72d St. Changes Hands Former Stillman Dwelling Near 5th Ave. Conveyed |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=32 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1264864274}}}}</ref> Since 2010, the house has been connected with the former Oliver Gould Jennings House at [[7 East 72nd Street]], immediately to the west, forming a single residence.<ref name="Arak 2010 u858" /> The two houses collectively occupy a single rectangular [[land lot]] of {{convert|8923|ft2}}, with a [[frontage]] of {{convert|87.33|ft}} and a north–south depth of {{convert|102.17|ft}}.<ref name="ZoLa">{{Cite web |title=7 East 72 Street, 10021 |url=https://zola.planning.nyc.gov/l/lot/1/1387/8 |access-date=March 20, 2020 |publisher=[[New York City Department of City Planning]] |archive-date=March 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240304215145/https://zola.planning.nyc.gov/l/lot/1/1387/8 |url-status=live }}</ref> Notable buildings nearby include the [[Joseph Pulitzer House|Pulitzer Mansion]] on the block to the north; [[907 Fifth Avenue]] and [[9 East 71st Street]] on the block to the south; and the [[Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo House]] and [[St. James' Episcopal Church (Manhattan)|St. James' Episcopal Church]] on Madison Avenue to the east. In addition, [[Central Park]] is one half block to the west.<ref name="aia5" /><ref name="ZoLa" /> |
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{{Reflist}} |
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== Architecture == |
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==Further reading== |
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[[File:At New York, USA 2017 402.jpg|left|thumb|alt=The main facade of the Sloane House and the adjacent Jennings House on 72nd Street|The main facade of the Sloane House (right) and [[Oliver Gould Jennings House|Jennings House]] (left) on 72nd Street]] |
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* {{cite book |title= Great Houses of New York, 1880-1930|last= Kathrens|first= Michael C.|authorlink= |coauthors= |year=2005 |publisher=Acanthus Press |location=New York |isbn= 978-0-926494-34-3|page=81 |pages= |url= |accessdate=}} |
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The building was designed by [[Carrère and Hastings]] in the French [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]] style.<ref name="aia5" /><ref name="NYCL p. 1" /> It is five stories high,<ref name="p333515646" /> although only four stories are visible from the street.<ref name="Lemos p. 355">{{harvnb|Hewitt et al.|2006|ps=.|page=355}}</ref> The only visible [[Elevation (architecture)|elevation]] of the facade, on 72nd Street, is divided vertically into four [[Bay (architecture)|bays]].<ref name="Lemos p. 355" /> The facade is further divided horizontally into three sections, reminiscent of the base, shaft, and [[Capital (architecture)|capital]] of a [[column]].<ref name="NYCL p. 3">{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1977|ps=.|p=3}}</ref> |
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* {{cite book |title= Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society|last= Craven|first= Wayne|authorlink= |coauthors= |year=2008 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |location=New York |isbn= 978-0-393-06754-5|page= |pages= |url= |accessdate=}} |
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=== Facade === |
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The first story constitutes the base of the facade and is composed of [[Rustication (architecture)|rusticated]] limestone blocks. The westernmost bay includes a [[Semicircular arch|round-arched]] entryway, which in turn is topped by a [[Cartouche (design)|cartouche]] flanked by scrolled [[Bracket (architecture)|brackets]]. The rest of the first-story facade has [[Segmental arch|segmentally-arched]] windows.<ref name="NYCL p. 2" /> |
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The facade of the second and third floors is interspersed with double-height [[Ionic order|Ionic]] columns.<ref name="Bagli 2000 p848" /><ref name="Lemos pp. 355–356">{{harvnb|Hewitt et al.|2006|ps=.|pages=355–356}}</ref> The facade is recessed behind the Ionic columns, giving the facade an appearance of increased depth.<ref name="Lemos pp. 355–356" /> The second floor is designed like a [[piano nobile]], the main floor of a [[palazzo]]. There is a balustrade with recessed, arched [[French window]]s behind it.<ref name="NYCL p. 2" /> The French windows are topped by circular [[oeil-de-boeuf]] transom windows, as well as grids of [[mullion]]s that separate the windows into multiple glass panels.<ref name="Lemos p. 356">{{harvnb|Hewitt et al.|2006|ps=.|page=356}}</ref> At the top of each French window is an elaborate [[Keystone (architecture)|keystone]] at the center of each bay, as well as scrolled brackets on either side.<ref name="NYCL p. 2" /> The third story is smaller and contains segmentally-arched windows. There are also cartouches above the third-floor windows, which are decorated with [[garland]]s and scrolls.<ref name="NYCL p. 2" /><ref name="Lemos p. 356" /> The Ionic columns support a heavy [[cornice]] with [[modillion]]s, which runs horizontally across the facade above the third floor.<ref name="NYCL p. 2" /><ref name="Lemos pp. 355–356" /> |
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[[File:E 72 St Sep 2022 13.jpg|thumb|French windows on the second story]] |
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[[Category:Upper East Side]] |
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[[Category:Houses in Manhattan]] |
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The fourth floor is within a [[mansard roof]] and is recessed behind a balustrade. On this story, there are four mansard windows, each of which corresponds to one of the bays on the first through third floors.<ref name="NYCL pp. 2–3">{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1977|ps=.|pp=2–3}}</ref> The dormers are topped by flat-arched pediments. The use of flat-arched pediments on the fourth floor was intended to link it with the arched windows on the lower stories.<ref name="Lemos pp. 355–356" /> |
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=== Features === |
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The house originally spanned {{Convert|25,363|ft2}} and is decorated with details such as fireplaces and molded decorations.<ref name="p333515646">{{Cite news |last=McGeveran |first=Tom |date=August 19, 2002 |title=Merde! Lycee Buys Toxic Dump |work=The New York Observer |page=1 |id={{ProQuest|333515646}}}}</ref> It was originally designed in the [[Louis XIV style]], with rooms arranged around a "court of honor". The first floor has an entrance hall that is accessed via the court of honor.<ref name="Lemos p. 356" /> This hall measures {{convert|22|by|28|ft}} and contains [[Lead glass|leaded glass]] windows, oak-and-iron doors from the entrance, a large fireplace, and a plaster ceiling with classical design details.<ref name="Gray 2001 f530" /> There is a large curving staircase up to the second floor,<ref name="Lemos p. 356" /> with a metal balustrade, wall [[Sconce (light fixture)|sconces]], and various green-and-gold decorations.<ref name="Gray 2001 f530" /> At the front of the second floor is a drawing room measuring {{convert|25|by|26|ft}} and a salon measuring {{convert|28|by|46|ft}}.<ref name="Gray 2001 f530" /> The upper stories were designed in a French style<ref name="Lemos p. 356" /> and contained the family bedrooms and servants' quarters. Many of the rooms retained their original decorations in the 2000s, including doorknobs, chandeliers, and lamps.<ref name="Gray 2001 f530" /> |
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A ''New York Times'' article from 1941 described the house as having 28 rooms, including eight bathrooms.<ref name="The New York Times 1941 w019" /> At some point, a conservatory room was installed behind the main second-floor rooms. In the late 20th century, the interior of the house retained most of its original design details. For example, when a sprinkler line was installed, it passed over one of the house's original drapery rods.<ref name="Gray 2001 f530" /> When 9 East 72nd Street was combined with the neighboring 7 East 72nd Street in 2010, the combined houses included two levels of bedrooms, a swimming pool, and two top floors for the staff.<ref name="Arak 2010 u858">{{cite web |last=Arak |first=Joey |date=July 21, 2010 |title=Renovated Mega-Mansion Ready to Rule the Upper East Side |url=https://ny.curbed.com/2010/7/21/10508820/renovated-mega-mansion-ready-to-rule-the-upper-east-side |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=Curbed NY |archive-date=February 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224000820/https://ny.curbed.com/2010/7/21/10508820/renovated-mega-mansion-ready-to-rule-the-upper-east-side |url-status=live }}</ref> There was also a {{Convert|8500|ft2|adj=on}} terrace above the two houses.<ref name="The Real Deal 2017 d060">{{cite web |date=July 3, 2017 |title=Qatar is so filthy rich that even its servants have a $41M mansion |url=https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2017/07/03/qatar-is-so-rich-that-its-servants-have-a-41m-mansion/ |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=The Real Deal |archive-date=February 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224005906/https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2017/07/03/qatar-is-so-rich-that-its-servants-have-a-41m-mansion/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''Observer'' cites the two houses as occupying a combined {{Convert|45000|ft2}},<ref name="Observer" /> though the [[New York City Department of City Planning]] cites the [[gross floor area]] as {{Convert|42,380|ft2}}.<ref name="ZoLa" /> |
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== History == |
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9 East 72nd Street was originally constructed for [[Henry T. Sloane]], whose father had founded the carpet firm [[W. & J. Sloane]].<ref name="NYCL p. 1">{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1977|ps=.|p=1}}</ref><ref name="Gray 2001 f530">{{cite web |last=Gray |first=Christopher |date=January 7, 2001 |title=Streetscapes/9 East 72nd Street; A School's Grand House That Could Be Private Again |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/07/realestate/streetscapes-9-east-72nd-street-school-s-grand-house-that-could-be-private-again.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=The New York Times |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021132736/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/07/realestate/streetscapes-9-east-72nd-street-school-s-grand-house-that-could-be-private-again.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Various members of the family married into other affluent New York City families in the late 19th century.<ref name="Lemos pp. 354–355">{{harvnb|Hewitt et al.|2006|ps=.|pages=354–355}}</ref> These included Henry Sloane, who had, in 1880, married Jessie Ann Robbins, whose father was a partner in the wholesale drug firm of [[McKesson Corporation|McKesson & Robbins]].<ref name="NYCL p. 1" /> The Sloanes lived on [[54th Street (Manhattan)|54th Street]] until the 1890s, at a time when that part of [[Midtown Manhattan]] was filled with houses for the upper class.<ref name="Gray 2001 f530" /> |
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=== Original residence === |
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==== Sloane ownership ==== |
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[[File:E 72 St Sep 2022 12.jpg|thumb|Entrance to the house]] |
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By the mid-1890s, numerous wealthy families had settled on 72nd Street.<ref name="Lemos pp. 354–355" /><ref name="Hevesi 2002 a419">{{cite web |last=Hevesi |first=Dennis |date=July 19, 2002 |title=Residential Real Estate; Turning 23 Homes Into a Mansion |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/19/nyregion/residential-real-estate-turning-23-homes-into-a-mansion.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=The New York Times |archive-date=February 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240217152132/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/19/nyregion/residential-real-estate-turning-23-homes-into-a-mansion.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Henry Sloane initially may wanted to buy a lot at the corner of 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue, but that corner was already occupied.<ref name="Lemos p. 355" /> Instead, he bought a 54-foot-wide site at 9 East 72nd Street.<ref name="Lemos p. 355" /> Initially, Sloane wanted to hire both [[McKim, Mead & White]] and [[Richard Morris Hunt]] to design competing plans for the house. Hunt's wife said that Sloane had intended to combine elements of both architecture firms' plans, not knowing that doing so would be an ethical taboo for both firms.<ref name="NYCL p. 2" /> Sloane ultimately hired John M. Carrère and [[Thomas Hastings (architect)|Thomas Hastings]] of the firm.<ref name="Gray 2001 f530" /><ref name="r-7031148_014_00000574">{{cite magazine |date=October 2, 1894 |title=A New Field for Building Operations |url=https://rerecord.library.columbia.edu/document.php?vol=ldpd_7031148_014&page=ldpd_7031148_014_00000574&no=1 |magazine=The Real Estate Record: Real estate record and builders' guide |pages=544 |via=[[Columbia University|columbia.edu]] |volume=54 |number=1388 |access-date=May 30, 2024 |archive-date=March 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240303035313/https://rerecord.library.columbia.edu/document.php?vol=ldpd_7031148_014&page=ldpd_7031148_014_00000574&no=1 |url-status=live }}</ref> Drawings of the house's interiors were publicized in [[The American Architect|''The American Architect and Building News'']] as early as December 1893.<ref name="Lemos p. 356" /> Plans for the house were not formally filed with the [[New York City Department of Buildings]] until August 1894,<ref name="r-7031148_014_00000331">{{cite magazine |date=September 1, 1894 |title=Buildings Projected |url=https://rerecord.library.columbia.edu/document.php?vol=ldpd_7031148_014&page=ldpd_7031148_014_00000331&no=13 |magazine=The Real Estate Record: Real estate record and builders' guide |pages=301 |via=[[Columbia University|columbia.edu]] |volume=54 |postscript=none |number=1381 |access-date=May 30, 2024 |archive-date=March 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301211928/https://rerecord.library.columbia.edu/document.php?vol=ldpd_7031148_014&page=ldpd_7031148_014_00000331&no=13 |url-status=live }}; {{Cite news |date=August 28, 1894 |title=New Buildings and Alterations |work=The New York Times |page=12 |issn=0362-4331 |id={{ProQuest|95077942}}}}</ref> at which point the house was planned to cost $100,000.<ref name="r-7031148_014_00000574" /> The house took two years to construct,<ref name="Gray 2001 f530" /> and plans for the interior were modified during the construction process.<ref name="Lemos p. 356" /> |
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The house was recorded as being vacant in mid-1896, when a burglary prompted a police watchman to be posted outside the Sloanes' house, though $300,000 worth of furniture had been moved into the house by September 1896.<ref name="p574223077">{{cite news |date=September 12, 1896 |title=Burglar Scare at H. T. Sloane's: Two Men Arrested on the Stoop at Midnight—said They Were "Taking the Air." Much Trouble Over a Small Burglary |work=New-York Tribune |page=13 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|574223077}}}}</ref> One of the first events that the Sloanes hosted at the house was a dance party for more than 200 guests in January 1897,<ref name="nyt-1897-01-12">{{Cite news |date=January 12, 1897 |title=Mrs. Henry Sloane's Dance.; Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., Among the Guests. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1897/01/12/archives/mrs-henry-sloanes-dance-mr-and-mrs-cornelius-vanderbilt-jr-among.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301212025/https://www.nytimes.com/1897/01/12/archives/mrs-henry-sloanes-dance-mr-and-mrs-cornelius-vanderbilt-jr-among.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="p574265815">{{cite news |date=January 12, 1897 |title=Incidents in Society |work=New-York Tribune |page=5 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|574265815}}}}</ref> an event they also hosted the following year.<ref name="p574396980a">{{cite news |date=January 25, 1898 |title=Incidents in Society |work=New-York Tribune |page=7 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|574396980}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=January 25, 1898 |title=A Fashionable Dance |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/democrat-and-chronicle-a-fashionable-dan/142465569/ |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=Democrat and Chronicle |pages=1 |archive-date=March 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240305060607/https://www.newspapers.com/article/democrat-and-chronicle-a-fashionable-dan/142465569/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The Sloanes lived in the house for only about three years.<ref name="Gray 2001 f530" /> Henry deeded the house to Jessie in October 1898.<ref name="The New York Times 2023 a822">{{cite web |date=May 6, 1899 |title=Mr. Sloane Accepts House: Takes Back Seventy-second Street Mansion from Former Wife |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1899/05/06/archives/mr-sloane-accepts-house-takes-back-seventysecond-street-mansion.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=The New York Times |archive-date=February 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224000826/https://www.nytimes.com/1899/05/06/archives/mr-sloane-accepts-house-takes-back-seventysecond-street-mansion.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Following a protracted disagreement, Henry [[Legal separation|separated]] from his wife in December 1898<ref name="The New York Times 2023 g309">{{cite web |date=January 28, 2023 |title=The Sloanes to Separate |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1898/12/22/archives/the-sloanes-to-separate.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=The New York Times |archive-date=February 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224000826/https://www.nytimes.com/1898/12/22/archives/the-sloanes-to-separate.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="p172900261">{{cite news |date=December 23, 1898 |title=Sloane Family Discord.: Developments Point to a Divorce of Social Leaders. Effort to Patch Up the Difficulty Originating at Newport is Futile and the Present Separation Appears to Be Final |work=Chicago Daily Tribune |page=7 |issn=1085-6706 |id={{ProQuest|172900261}}}}</ref> and moved to his sister's house on 57th Street.<ref name="The New York Times 2023 f478">{{cite web |date=April 29, 1899 |title=Divorce for H. T. Sloane; Mrs. Sloane Married to Perry Belmont in Greenwich, Conn. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1899/04/29/archives/divorce-for-ht-sloane-mrs-sloane-married-to-perry-belmont-in.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=The New York Times |archive-date=February 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224000827/https://www.nytimes.com/1899/04/29/archives/divorce-for-ht-sloane-mrs-sloane-married-to-perry-belmont-in.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Jessie, who frequently communicated with friends via a messenger [[call box]] in the house, found that some of her messages were intercepted after the couple had separated.<ref name="The New York Times 2023 g264">{{cite web |date=January 2, 1899 |title=Mrs. Sloane's Suspicions; Her Private Letters, It Is Said, Have Been Tampered with by Supposed Detectives. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1899/01/02/archives/mrs-sloanes-suspicions-her-private-letters-it-is-said-have-been.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=The New York Times |archive-date=February 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224000827/https://www.nytimes.com/1899/01/02/archives/mrs-sloanes-suspicions-her-private-letters-it-is-said-have-been.html |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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The Sloanes formally received a divorce in April 1899, when Jessie married [[Perry Belmont]]. Under the terms of the divorce, Jessie gave up the 72nd Street residence and agreed not to visit her two daughters until they turned 21 years old.<ref name="The New York Times 2023 f478" /> If Henry did not agree to buy back the house, it was to be sold, with their two daughters sharing the profits.<ref name="NYCL p. 1" /><ref name="p574615484">{{cite news |date=May 2, 1899 |title=Mrs. Belmont's Deed Filed: Conditions of the Retransfer of the Seventy-second-st. House |work=New-York Tribune |page=7 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|574615484}}}}</ref> Henry agreed to buy the house that May, with the condition that he was to pay off about $64,000 worth of Jessie's personal debts; at the time, the house was valued at $450,000.<ref name="The New York Times 2023 a822" /><ref name="p574612031">{{cite news |date=May 6, 1899 |title=Accepted by H. T. Sloane: He Takes a Reconveyance of the Seventy-second-st. House |work=New-York Tribune |page=1 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|574612031}}}}</ref> After Henry bought back the house, he did not live there.<ref name="NYCL p. 2">{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1977|ps=.|p=2}}</ref> Instead, in February 1900, Sloane leased the house to the publisher [[Joseph Pulitzer]], who was living in the [[Hotel New Netherland|Hotel Netherland]] because his house at 55th Street had burned down. Pulitzer agreed to pay $17,500 a year in rent<ref name="n142467109">{{Cite news |date=February 20, 1900 |title=Pulitzer's New Home |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/yonkers-statesman-pulitzers-new-home/142467109/ |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=Yonkers Statesman |pages=2 |postscript=none |archive-date=March 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240305060608/https://www.newspapers.com/article/yonkers-statesman-pulitzers-new-home/142467109/ |url-status=live }}; {{Cite news |date=February 21, 1900 |title=Mr. Pulitzer Rents Sloane House |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-mr-pulitzer-rents-sloa/142465885/ |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=New-York Tribune |pages=9 |archive-date=March 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240305060608/https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-mr-pulitzer-rents-sloa/142465885/ |url-status=live }}</ref> for a lease that expired in May 1901.<ref name="The New York Times 1901 r882">{{cite web |date=February 28, 1901 |title=In the Real Estate Field; Sale of the Knapp Estate's Tract on Washington Heights. James Stillman Buys the Sloane Mansion – Upper Third Avenue Corner Sold – Other Dealings. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1901/02/28/archives/in-the-real-estate-field-sale-of-the-knapp-estates-tract-on.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301232508/https://www.nytimes.com/1901/02/28/archives/in-the-real-estate-field-sale-of-the-knapp-estates-tract-on.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Shortly after his family moved to 9 East 72nd Street, Pulitzer bought several lots one block north on 73rd Street for his permanent residence, the [[Joseph Pulitzer House]].<ref name="The New York Times 1900 q738">{{cite web |date=April 13, 1900 |title=Joseph Pulitzer's New Home; To be Erected on Seventy-third Street, Near Fifth Avenue. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1900/04/13/archives/joseph-pulitzers-new-home-to-be-erected-on-seventythird-street-near.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=March 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240303044849/https://www.nytimes.com/1900/04/13/archives/joseph-pulitzers-new-home-to-be-erected-on-seventythird-street-near.html |url-status=live }}; {{Cite news |date=April 19, 1900 |title=Real Estate |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-real-estate/142466970/ |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=New-York Tribune |pages=13 |archive-date=March 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240305060609/https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-real-estate/142466970/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[1900 United States census]] shows that Pulitzer's household consisted of six people and that he employed another 17 servants.<ref name="Gray 2001 f530" /> |
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[[File:E 72 St Sep 2022 15.jpg|thumb|Third and fourth floors]] |
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In February 1901, the house was sold to [[James A. Stillman]]'','' the president of [[National City Bank of New York]]; the house was valued at $450,000.<ref name="The New York Times 1901 r882" /> At the time, Stillman also owned property at 17 and 19 East 72nd Street to the east.<ref name="The New York Times 1901 r882" /><ref name="r-7031148_027_00000464">{{cite magazine |date=March 2, 1901 |title=Review of the Week |url=https://rerecord.library.columbia.edu/document.php?vol=ldpd_7031148_027&page=ldpd_7031148_027_00000464&no=1 |magazine=The Real Estate Record: Real estate record and builders' guide |pages=356 |via=[[Columbia University|columbia.edu]] |volume=67 |number=1720 |access-date=May 30, 2024 |archive-date=February 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224000827/https://rerecord.library.columbia.edu/document.php?vol=ldpd_7031148_027&page=ldpd_7031148_027_00000464&no=1 |url-status=live }}</ref> as well as property on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 72nd Street to the west.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last=Gray |first=Christopher |date=March 10, 2011 |title=Stirrings of a Throwback Kind |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/realestate/13streetscapes.html?_r=0 |access-date=November 8, 2013 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |archive-date=December 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227061205/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/realestate/13streetscapes.html?_r=0 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="p571172515">{{cite news |date=November 2, 1902 |title=Two New $1,000,000 Houses: James Stillman and Mr. And Mrs. Howard Gould to Build on Fifth-ave. |work=New-York Tribune |page=11 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|571172515}}}}</ref> Stillman had planned to construct a mansion on the latter corner, to be designed by [[McKim, Mead & White]],<ref name="p571172515" /> but the mansion was never built, and that site remained vacant.<ref name="p575990236">{{cite news |date=February 9, 1919 |title=Stillman Corner on Fifth Avenue in Deal: Sale of Well Known Property at Seventy-second Street Is Close at Hand—Syndicate of Operators Is Buying It – Apartments Planned |work=New-York Tribune |page=A9 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|575990236}}}}</ref> By 1905, Stillman was recorded as having shifted his primary residence out of New York City, though he did continue to live at 9 East 72nd Street.<ref name="p536932010">{{Cite news |date=January 10, 1905 |title=Taxes of Gotham's Rich: Only 20 Persons Assessed to Own More Than $500,000 Carnegie's_$5,000,000 Leads No Astors, No Morgan, Only One Rockefeller on Millionaire List. Stillman Rogers and Hill Absent |work=The Baltimore Sun |page=2 |id={{ProQuest|536932010}}}}</ref> Stillman had nine servants at the house,<ref name="Gray 2001 f530" /> including a chef whose cooking he reviewed every night. The few visitors he did invite had a largely negative impression of him, and whenever he invited family members over, he forced them to sit in silence for hours.<ref name="Ossman 2021 h542">{{cite web |last=Ossman |first=Laurie |date=June 4, 2021 |title=Henry T. Sloane House |url=https://househistree.com/houses/henry-t-sloane-house |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=House Histree |archive-date=March 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301232315/https://househistree.com/houses/henry-t-sloane-house |url-status=live }}</ref> After retiring from National City Bank in 1909, Stillman spent most of his time in Paris.<ref name="NYCL p. 2" /> Although he did host events such as a reception for his son's wedding in 1911,<ref name="n142472622">{{Cite news |date=December 8, 1911 |title=Mrs. Rockefeller Gives a Reception |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-new-york-times-mrs-rockefeller-give/142472622/ |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=The New York Times |pages=13 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240305060609/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-new-york-times-mrs-rockefeller-give/142472622/ |url-status=live }}</ref> one newspaper described the house the next year as one of several empty mansions in New York City.<ref name="n141124328">{{Cite news |date=May 27, 1912 |title=Deserted City Lies in Center of Manhattan |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-buffalo-news-deserted-city-lies-in-c/141124328/ |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=The Buffalo News |pages=14 |archive-date=February 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240216192959/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-buffalo-news-deserted-city-lies-in-c/141124328/ |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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Stillman retained the house until he died of heart disease there in March 1918.<ref name="p575827788">{{cite news |date=March 16, 1918 |title=Jas. Stillman, Banker, Dies At Age of 67: Genius of National City Bank Victim of Heart Disease |work=New-York Tribune |page=1 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|575827788}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=March 16, 1918 |title=James Stillman, Head of City Bank, Dies Suddenly; James Stillman. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1918/03/16/archives/james-stillman-head-of-city-bank-dies-suddenly-james-stillman.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301232314/https://www.nytimes.com/1918/03/16/archives/james-stillman-head-of-city-bank-dies-suddenly-james-stillman.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The carpet manufacturer and former U.S. representative [[John Sanford (1851–1939)|John Sanford]] leased the house for a short time<ref name="r-7031148_063_00000937">{{cite magazine |date=April 26, 1919 |title=Stillman Home Sold |url=https://rerecord.library.columbia.edu/document.php?vol=ldpd_7031148_063&page=ldpd_7031148_063_00000937&no=1 |magazine=The Real Estate Record: Real estate record and builders' guide |pages=545 |via=[[Columbia University|columbia.edu]] |volume=103 |number=17 |access-date=May 30, 2024 |archive-date=March 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240303125822/https://rerecord.library.columbia.edu/document.php?vol=ldpd_7031148_063&page=ldpd_7031148_063_00000937&no=1 |url-status=live }}</ref> before buying it in April 1919 at an estimated value of $500,000.<ref name="r-7031148_063_00000937" /><ref name="n142478025">{{Cite news |date=April 22, 1919 |title=Realty Market News and Comment |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-herald-realty-market-news-and-c/142478025/ |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=New York Herald |pages=13 |postscript=none |archive-date=March 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240305060608/https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-herald-realty-market-news-and-c/142478025/ |url-status=live }}; {{Cite news |date=April 23, 1919 |title=Newspaper Specials |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-wall-street-journal-newspaper-specia/142478094/ |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=The Wall Street Journal |pages=9 |issn=0099-9660 |archive-date=March 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240305060608/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-wall-street-journal-newspaper-specia/142478094/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The Sanfords hosted events such as lecture-musicals,<ref name="p1237307309">{{cite news |date=November 4, 1923 |title=Lecture-Musicale Series Will Be Opened Tuesday: Mr. Goossens Will Speak and Mr. Barclay Will Sing at Mrs. Sanford's Home |work=New-York Tribune |page=17 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1237307309}}}}</ref> a dinner honoring their son [[Stephen Sanford (polo player)|Stephen]],<ref name="p576002024">{{cite news |date=December 25, 1918 |title=Mrs. John Sanford Gives Dinner in Son's Honor |work=New-York Tribune |page=9 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|576002024}}}}</ref> and debutante balls for their daughters Sarah and [[Gertrude Sanford Legendre|Gertrude]].<ref name="p576285420">See: {{Cite news |date=December 20, 1919 |title=Debutantes Have Day of Festivities; Miss Sarah Sanford Introduced at Large Dance—Party for Miss Jackson. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1919/12/20/archives/debutantes-have-day-of-festivities-miss-sarah-sanford-introduced-at.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |date=December 31, 1920 |title=Miss Sanford Makes Bow at Home Dance: Parents Also Give Dinner to Introduce Daughter and Bishop Darlington and Wife Are Hosts to 24 Luncheon for Miss Wood Much Entertaining To Be Done at Hotels To-night to Welcome New Year |work=New-York Tribune |page=11 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|576285420}}}}</ref> Sanford's wife Ethel lived at the house until her death in 1924.<ref name="p1113259020a">{{cite news |date=November 14, 1924 |title=Mrs. John Stanford Dies At Home on Long Island: Wife of Former Representative Had Been III One Month |work=The New York Herald, New York Tribune |page=15 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1113259020}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=November 14, 1924 |title=Mrs. Sanford Dies; Hostess to Prince |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle/29969845/ |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |pages=22 |archive-date=March 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240302014029/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle/29969845/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In the late 1920s, the Sanfords continued to host events at their house, such as dinners and dances.<ref>See, for example: {{cite news |date=January 15, 1926 |title=Personal Intelligence: New York |work=The New York Herald, New York Tribune |page=17 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1113584140}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=January 16, 1927 |title=Farewell Supper-dance; John Sanford and Daughters Entertain Before Leaving for South. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1927/01/16/archives/farewell-supperdance-john-sanford-and-daughters-entertain-before.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none }}; {{Cite news |date=September 17, 1929 |title=John Sanford Gives Dance for Daughter; Entertains for Miss Gertrude and Fiance, Sidney J. Legendre, Who Are to Wed Today |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1929/09/17/archives/john-sanford-gives-dance-for-daughter-entertains-for-miss-gertrude.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240302014028/https://www.nytimes.com/1929/09/17/archives/john-sanford-gives-dance-for-daughter-entertains-for-miss-gertrude.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Stephen Sanford was recorded as living at the house until he married the actress [[Mary Duncan]] in 1933,<ref name="p1222155235a">{{cite news |date=September 2, 1933 |title='Laddie' Sanford, Polo Player, Weds Mary Duncan, Actress |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=3 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1222155235}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=September 2, 1933 |title=Actress Weds Laddy Sanford in City's Chapel |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-actress-weds-laddy-sanford-in/142678668/ |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=Daily News |pages=30 |archive-date=March 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240306174800/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-actress-weds-laddy-sanford-in/142678668/ |url-status=live }}</ref> as did Sarah until her own marriage in 1937.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 15, 1937 |title=Sarah J. Sanford to Be Wed on Feb. 3; She Will Become the Bride of Mario Pansa, an Italian Diplomat and Soldier. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/01/15/archives/sarah-j-sanford-to-be-wed-on-feb-3-she-will-become-the-bride-of.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240304210303/https://www.nytimes.com/1937/01/15/archives/sarah-j-sanford-to-be-wed-on-feb-3-she-will-become-the-bride-of.html |url-status=live }}</ref> John Sanford ultimately died in September 1939.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 27, 1939 |title=John Sanford, 88, Noted Horseman |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-john-sanford-8/142678914/ |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |pages=13 |archive-date=March 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240306174800/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-john-sanford-8/142678914/ |url-status=live }}</ref> By that time, many mansions in the neighborhood were being demolished or converted to non-residential uses, as millionaires no longer chose to live in these mansions.<ref name="Gray 2001 f530" /> |
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The house was purchased by an unnamed client of [[Douglas Elliman]] in 1941.<ref name="The New York Times 1941 w019" /><ref name="p1264864274" /> Mary J. Riker was recorded as having owned the house after Sanford;<ref name="The New York Times 1964 a295" /> she bought the house to protect her residence at 7 East 72nd Street.<ref name="nyt-1945-06-14">{{Cite news |date=June 14, 1945 |title=Town Houses Sold on the East Side; Former Stillman Residence in a Resale—Apartment Buildings Figure in Deals Lexington Avenue House Sold Buys Apartment Building |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1945/06/14/archives/town-houses-sold-on-the-east-side-former-stillman-residence-in-a.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240305024000/https://www.nytimes.com/1945/06/14/archives/town-houses-sold-on-the-east-side-former-stillman-residence-in-a.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In early 1945, Riker successfully petitioned to have the house's value reduced by 62 percent for tax purposes.<ref name="nyt-1945-01-26">{{Cite news |date=January 26, 1945 |title=62% Assessment Cut On Old Stillman Home |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1945/01/26/archives/62-assessment-cut-on-old-stillman-home.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240304210317/https://www.nytimes.com/1945/01/26/archives/62-assessment-cut-on-old-stillman-home.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Riker sold the house to Harold C. Mathews Jr. and Archibald Dudgeon that June.<ref name="nyt-1945-06-14" /><ref name="p1291108224">{{cite news |date=June 14, 1945 |title=Large Uptown Suite Building Reported Sold: Deal Closed for 19-Story House on Central Pk. W. Realty Interests Heat |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=22 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1291108224}}}}</ref> The ''[[New York Herald Tribune]]'' reported in December 1946 that Mathews and Dudgeon transferred ownership of the house in December 1946 at an estimated value of $200,000,<ref name="p1287292651">{{cite news |date=December 5, 1946 |title=Large Dwelling In East 72d St. Reported Sold: Former Stillman Residence Involved in Deal; Philadelphia Concern Sells |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=38 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1287292651}}}}</ref> but the ''Herald Tribune'' and ''The New York Times'' both record Harold Churchill Mathews as having owned the house through the next year.<ref name="p108092181">{{cite news |date=September 1, 1947 |title=Tenants Acquire 791 Park Avenue |work=The New York Times |page=25 |issn=0362-4331 |id={{ProQuest|108092181}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=September 1, 1947 |title='I Am' Movement Buys Sanctuary |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=21 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1337187779}}}}</ref> In any case, Mrs. Sterling Boos bought the house from Mathews in September 1947 as a sanctuary for the [["I AM" Activity]] religious movement; at the time, the house was valued at $185,000.<ref name="p108092181" /> After Boos's acquisition, the house was occupied by the Sanctuary of the Master's Presence;<ref name="The New York Times 1964 a295">{{cite web |date=April 14, 1964 |title=East Side School Buys Two Houses; Lycee Francais Gets Noted Homes on E. 72d St. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/14/archives/east-side-school-buys-two-houses-lycee-francais-gets-noted-homes-on.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=The New York Times |archive-date=February 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240222232411/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/14/archives/east-side-school-buys-two-houses-lycee-francais-gets-noted-homes-on.html |url-status=live }}</ref> the interiors remained mostly unchanged even after its conversion to religious use.<ref name="Gray 2001 f530" /> The building also hosted events such as the 1959 wedding of Boos's daughter Marilyn.<ref name="nyt-1959-05-03">{{Cite news |date=May 3, 1959 |title=Marilyn Boos, Finch Alumna, Bride in Home; She Is Married Here to Sanford Hohauser, a L Graduate of Yale |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1959/05/03/archives/marilyn-boos-finch-alumna-bride-in-home-sheis-married-here-to.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240304210303/https://www.nytimes.com/1959/05/03/archives/marilyn-boos-finch-alumna-bride-in-home-sheis-married-here-to.html |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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=== Use as school === |
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In April 1964, the [[Lycée Français de New York]], a French-language school, purchased 7 and 9 East 72nd Street from the Boos family for a combined $850,000. The school took out a $815,275 mortgage from [[MassMutual|Massachusetts Mutual]], which covered both the 72nd Street houses and Lycee Francais's original building at [[3 East 95th Street]]. At the time, the school had already operated 7 East 72nd Street for several years. and Paul L. Wood and Reginald E. Marsh were hired to renovate 9 East 72nd Street as an annex for the school.<ref name="The New York Times 1964 a2952">{{cite web |date=April 14, 1964 |title=East Side School Buys Two Houses; Lycee Francais Gets Noted Homes on E. 72d St. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/14/archives/east-side-school-buys-two-houses-lycee-francais-gets-noted-homes-on.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=The New York Times |archive-date=February 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240222232411/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/14/archives/east-side-school-buys-two-houses-lycee-francais-gets-noted-homes-on.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Municipal Art Society]] had installed a historic-landmark plaque on the house's facade by that point.<ref name="The New York Times 1964 a2952" /> Lycee Francais formally opened its classrooms at 9 East 72nd Street on September 24, 1964; the school hosted classes in one of the houses' old ballrooms due to a lack of space.<ref name="The New York Times 1964 v400">{{cite web |last=Talese |first=Gay |date=September 25, 1964 |title=Lycee Here Foster Discipline; High School class meeting yesterday in ornate setting in school building at 7 East 72d St.; Private School Bars Coddling Children or Their Parents |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/09/25/archives/lycee-here-foster-discipline-high-school-class-meeting-yesterday-in.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=The New York Times |archive-date=February 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240222235000/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/09/25/archives/lycee-here-foster-discipline-high-school-class-meeting-yesterday-in.html |url-status=live }}</ref>[[File:East 72nd Street 002.JPG|thumb|Historical plaque]]The school made relatively few alterations to the two houses over the years.<ref name="Gray 2001 f530" /> The [[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] considered designating 7 and 9 East 72nd Street as city landmarks in 1976<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 31, 1976 |title=Flying Whirlybirds & Whizzing Horses |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-flying-whirlybirds-whizzing/141878992/ |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=Daily News |pages=1198 |archive-date=February 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223004726/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-flying-whirlybirds-whizzing/141878992/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and granted the designations in January 1977, despite the school's opposition to either designation.<ref name="n141878604">{{Cite news |date=January 12, 1977 |title=3 Townhouses Win Landmark Status |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-3-townhouses-win-landmark-sta/141878604/ |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=Daily News |pages=204 |archive-date=February 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223004235/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-3-townhouses-win-landmark-sta/141878604/ |url-status=live }}</ref> By the late 1970s, the houses at 7 and 9 East 72nd Street contained Lycee Francais's kindergarten through fourth grade classes.<ref name="The New York Times 1978 r437">{{cite web |date=November 12, 1978 |title=Realty News A Rash of New Building Projects |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/12/archives/realty-news-a-rash-of-new-building-projects-a-rash-of-new-building.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=The New York Times |archive-date=July 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707235222/https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/12/archives/realty-news-a-rash-of-new-building-projects-a-rash-of-new-building.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Lycee Francais bought 12 East 73rd Street, a five-bedroom mansion behind the two 72nd Street houses,<ref name="Marino 2017 b005">{{cite web |last=Marino |first=Vivian |date=March 3, 2017 |title=East Side Mansion Tops February Home Sales |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/realestate/east-side-mansion-tops-february-home-sales.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=The New York Times |archive-date=February 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223004148/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/realestate/east-side-mansion-tops-february-home-sales.html |url-status=live }}</ref> for $4.3 million in 1994. The 73rd Street mansion was subsequently linked to the existing 72nd Street houses.<ref name="p333515646" /> |
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After Lycee Francais developed a new building on [[York Avenue and Sutton Place|York Avenue]] in the 2000s, the school originally considered keeping the six townhouses that it owned, including the houses at 7 and 9 East 72nd Street, but they were all protected as city landmarks, making it difficult to modify any of the houses without permission from the city government.<ref name="Brozan 2002 t611">{{cite web |last=Brozan |first=Nadine |date=December 15, 2002 |title=POSTINGS: New Home for Lycée Français on Upper East Side; A Design Inspired by Descartes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/realestate/postings-new-home-for-lycee-francais-upper-east-side-design-inspired-descartes.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=The New York Times |archive-date=February 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223004117/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/realestate/postings-new-home-for-lycee-francais-upper-east-side-design-inspired-descartes.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Instead, the school began looking to sell the six townhouses in August 2000 at a combined price of $100 million.<ref name="Bagli 2000 p848">{{cite web |last=Bagli |first=Charles V. |date=August 29, 2000 |title=Cashing In on a New Era of Opulence; School Seeks Home Buyers Who Want to Live Like Vanderbilts |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/29/nyregion/cashing-new-era-opulence-school-seeks-home-buyers-who-want-live-like-vanderbilts.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=The New York Times |archive-date=February 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223004228/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/29/nyregion/cashing-new-era-opulence-school-seeks-home-buyers-who-want-live-like-vanderbilts.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Sherman2008">{{Cite web |last=Sherman |first=Gabriel |date=September 15, 2008 |title=Lycee Français Builds A Palace Apres Taking Bath |url=http://www.observer.com/node/49380 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915212506/http://www.observer.com/node/49380 |archive-date=September 15, 2008 |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=The New York Observer}}</ref> Initially, Lycee Francais hired [[Massey Knakal]] to market the buildings; school officials refused an offer to buy the buildings for $43 million.<ref name="p333515646" /> When Lycee Francais hired the [[Corcoran Group]] as the new broker the next year, it sought $51 million for the two 72nd Street houses, including $30 million for 9 East 72nd Street.<ref name="p333515646" /> By early 2001, the school had reduced its asking price for 9 East 72nd Street to $25 million.<ref name="p408840533">{{cite news |last=Moore |first=Martha T. |date=March 16, 2001 |title=Old mansions sign of new money |work=USA Today |page=A03 |id={{ProQuest|408840533}}}}</ref><ref name="n141876054" /> Dozens of buyers expressed interest in the house, of which real estate broker [[Barbara Corcoran]] estimated that half wanted to convert it into a single-family home.<ref name="n141876054">{{Cite news |last=Moore |first=Martha T. |date=April 13, 2001 |title=New money infuses new life into old mansions |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-journal-news-new-money-infuses-new-l/141876054/ |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=The Journal News |pages=42 |archive-date=February 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240222232435/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-journal-news-new-money-infuses-new-l/141876054/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The 72nd Street houses remained unsold for over two years because of a decline in New York City real estate following the [[September 11 attacks]].<ref name="Sherman2008" /> |
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=== Conversion back to residence === |
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Although an appraiser said in mid-2002 that the two buildings at 7 and 9 East 72nd Street could be sold for $25 million each,<ref name="Hevesi 2002 a419" /> they were ultimately sold for a combined $26 million.<ref name="p333515646" /><ref name="Chizhik-Goldschmidt 2024 e086">{{cite web |last=Chizhik-Goldschmidt |first=Avital |date=February 1, 2024 |title=Why Qatar's Sovereign Wealth Fund Invested in Manhattan |url=https://therealdeal.com/magazine/february-2024/the-riyals-in-real-estate/ |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=The Real Deal |archive-date=March 20, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240320001321/https://therealdeal.com/magazine/february-2024/the-riyals-in-real-estate/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The purchaser of the buildings was [[Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani]], then the [[Emir of Qatar]],<ref name="Arak 2010 u858" /><ref name="Zuylen-Wood 2016 r364">{{cite web |last=Zuylen-Wood |first=Simon van |date=October 12, 2016 |title=The Landlord's Guide to Gentrifying NYC |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-12/get-out |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=Bloomberg.com |archive-date=July 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230723145001/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-12/get-out |url-status=live }}</ref> who reportedly beat out the developer [[Donald Trump]] and an unknown bidder when he agreed to acquire the properties in August 2002.<ref name="p333515646" /> The sale was finalized the next year.<ref name="Wadler 2003 o641">{{cite web |last=Wadler |first=Joyce |date=October 14, 2003 |title=Boldface Names |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/14/nyregion/boldface-names-679046.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=The New York Times |archive-date=March 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301151802/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/14/nyregion/boldface-names-679046.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The Qatari government began combining the two buildings into a single house in 2004; the project, designed by [[Thornton Tomasetti]], took six years.<ref name="Arak 2010 u858" /> |
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The renovations of both buildings had been completed by 2010.<ref name=":0" /> The combined mansion at 7–9 East 72nd Street covered {{Convert|45000|ft2}}, making it New York City's largest single-family house.<ref name="Observer">{{cite web |date=February 3, 2014 |title=Qatar Is On an Upper East Side Townhouse Tear |url=http://observer.com/2014/02/how-sheikh-qatar-is-on-an-upper-east-side-townhouse-tear/ |access-date=December 26, 2016 |website=The Observer |archive-date=November 14, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161114125915/http://observer.com/2014/02/how-sheikh-qatar-is-on-an-upper-east-side-townhouse-tear/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It also became one of several dozen properties that the Qatari government owned in New York City.<ref name="Chizhik-Goldschmidt 2024 e086" /> Qatari Sheikha [[Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani]] used the houses as her New York City residence, displaying her art collection across numerous rooms.<ref name="The Real Deal 2017 d060" /> The country of Qatar bought the adjacent 12 East 73rd Street in 2017 to house the servants who were employed at 7–9 East 72nd Street.<ref name="The Real Deal 2017 d060" /><ref name="Rosenberg 2017 w730">{{cite web |last=Rosenberg |first=Zoe |date=July 3, 2017 |title=Qatar's $41M Upper East Side townhouse will serve as maids' housing: report |url=https://ny.curbed.com/2017/7/3/15914386/qatar-nyc-property-townhouses |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=Curbed NY |archive-date=February 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224000821/https://ny.curbed.com/2017/7/3/15914386/qatar-nyc-property-townhouses |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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== Reception == |
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Upon the house's completion, the ''New-York Tribune'' called the residence "one of the most spacious and magnificent in New York",<ref name="p574265815" /> and ''The New York Times'' described the house as "one of the handsomest of the newer uptown residences".<ref name="NYCL p. 1" /> In 1900, ''Architectural Annual'' magazine described 7 and 9 East 72nd Street as "Enigmas: Hotels particuliers a New York – but not the French Quarter" in a picture caption.<ref name="Gray 2001 f530" /> A writer for ''The New York Times'' described the house in 1974 as "perhaps the finest of the Gallic limestones" to be developed around the Upper East Side's [[millionaire's row]].<ref name="Peck 1974 x695">{{cite web |last=Peck |first=Richard |date=August 25, 1974 |title=On Millionaires' Row, Today's Issues Find An Echo in History |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/25/archives/on-millionaires-row-todays-issues-findan-echo-in-history-on.html |access-date=May 30, 2024 |website=The New York Times |archive-date=February 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203194855/http://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/25/archives/on-millionaires-row-todays-issues-findan-echo-in-history-on.html |url-status=live }}</ref> When the building was placed for sale in 2000, a reporter for the same paper said the building was "regarded by architects as one of the finest Beaux-Arts town houses in the city".<ref name="Bagli 2000 p848" /> [[Christopher Gray (architectural historian)|Christopher Gray]] of ''The New York Times'' wrote in 2011 that the house's design was "ultra-French" but was beaten out by the neighboring 7 East 72nd Street.<ref name=":0" /> |
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== See also == |
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* [[List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan from 59th to 110th Streets]] |
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== References == |
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=== Citations === |
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=== Sources === |
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* {{cite book |title=Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society |last=Craven |first=Wayne |year=2008 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |location=New York |isbn=978-0-393-06754-5}} |
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* {{cite report |url=http://www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org/db/bb_files/77-HENRYSLOANEHOUSE.pdf |title=Henry T. Sloane Residence |date=January 11, 1977 |publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20100311044609/http://www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org/db/bb_files/77-HENRYSLOANEHOUSE.pdf |archive-date=March 11, 2010 |ref={{Harvid|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1977}}}} |
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* {{cite book |last1=Hewitt |first1=Mark Alan |title=Carrère & Hastings architects |last2=Lemos |first2=Kate |last3=Morrison |first3=William |last4=Warren |first4=Charles |publisher=Acanthus Press |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-926494-42-8 |location=New York |pages=378–389 |oclc=69423272 |ref={{sfnref|Hewitt et al.|2006}}}} |
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Latest revision as of 17:16, 28 June 2024
| Henry T. Sloane House | |
|---|---|
 The main facade on 72nd Street | |
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| Alternative names | 9 East 72nd Street |
| General information | |
| Type | Mansion |
| Architectural style | Beaux-Arts |
| Address | 9 East 72nd Street |
| Town or city | Manhattan, New York |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 40°46′20″N 73°57′58″W / 40.77222°N 73.96611°W |
| Construction started | 1894 |
| Completed | 1896 |
| Client | Henry T. Sloane |
| Owner | Government of Qatar |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 5 |
| Floor area | 45,000 square feet (4,200 m2) (with 7 East 72nd Street) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Carrère and Hastings |
The Henry T. Sloane House is a mansion at 9 East 72nd Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is along 72nd Street's northern sidewalk between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue. The five-story building was designed by Carrère and Hastings in the French Beaux-Arts style, and was built from 1894 to 1896. The house, along with the neighboring structure at 7 East 72nd Street, has been owned since 2002 by the government of Qatar, which has combined the two buildings into a single residence.
The facade is divided vertically into four bays and is made of limestone, rising four stories from the street. The facade includes rusticated limestone blocks on the first story, a colonnade of Ionic columns on the second and third stories, and a mansard roof on the fourth story. The house originally spanned 25,363 square feet (2,356.3 m2), with various living spaces on the second floor and bedrooms on the upper stories. After 7 and 9 East 72nd Street were combined, the residence included a swimming pool and a roof terrace.
The building was originally constructed for the family of Henry T. Sloane, son of the founder of the carpet firm W. & J. Sloane. Following an acrimonious divorce, Sloane abandoned the house in 1899, and the family of Joseph Pulitzer rented it the next year. In 1901 it was purchased by the banker James Stillman, who lived there until his death in 1918. The house was then occupied by the carpet manufacturer John Sanford and then by the Riker family. Starting in 1964, it housed the Lycée Français de New York, along with its extensions in the neighboring mansion at 7 East 72nd Street. The house became a New York City designated landmark in 1977. The school vacated 7 and 9 East 72nd Street in 2002, when they were sold to Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar. After the Qatari government finished renovating and combining the buildings in 2010, the two structures comprised New York City's largest single-family residence.
Site[edit]
The Henry T. Sloane House is at 9 East 72nd Street, along the northern side of 72nd Street between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.[1] The house originally had a frontage of 59 feet (18 m) on 72nd Street and a north–south depth of 102 feet (31 m).[2][3] Since 2010, the house has been connected with the former Oliver Gould Jennings House at 7 East 72nd Street, immediately to the west, forming a single residence.[4] The two houses collectively occupy a single rectangular land lot of 8,923 square feet (829.0 m2), with a frontage of 87.33 feet (26.62 m) and a north–south depth of 102.17 feet (31.14 m).[5] Notable buildings nearby include the Pulitzer Mansion on the block to the north; 907 Fifth Avenue and 9 East 71st Street on the block to the south; and the Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo House and St. James' Episcopal Church on Madison Avenue to the east. In addition, Central Park is one half block to the west.[1][5]
Architecture[edit]
The building was designed by Carrère and Hastings in the French Beaux-Arts style.[1][6] It is five stories high,[7] although only four stories are visible from the street.[8] The only visible elevation of the facade, on 72nd Street, is divided vertically into four bays.[8] The facade is further divided horizontally into three sections, reminiscent of the base, shaft, and capital of a column.[9]
Facade[edit]
The first story constitutes the base of the facade and is composed of rusticated limestone blocks. The westernmost bay includes a round-arched entryway, which in turn is topped by a cartouche flanked by scrolled brackets. The rest of the first-story facade has segmentally-arched windows.[10]
The facade of the second and third floors is interspersed with double-height Ionic columns.[11][12] The facade is recessed behind the Ionic columns, giving the facade an appearance of increased depth.[12] The second floor is designed like a piano nobile, the main floor of a palazzo. There is a balustrade with recessed, arched French windows behind it.[10] The French windows are topped by circular oeil-de-boeuf transom windows, as well as grids of mullions that separate the windows into multiple glass panels.[13] At the top of each French window is an elaborate keystone at the center of each bay, as well as scrolled brackets on either side.[10] The third story is smaller and contains segmentally-arched windows. There are also cartouches above the third-floor windows, which are decorated with garlands and scrolls.[10][13] The Ionic columns support a heavy cornice with modillions, which runs horizontally across the facade above the third floor.[10][12]
The fourth floor is within a mansard roof and is recessed behind a balustrade. On this story, there are four mansard windows, each of which corresponds to one of the bays on the first through third floors.[14] The dormers are topped by flat-arched pediments. The use of flat-arched pediments on the fourth floor was intended to link it with the arched windows on the lower stories.[12]
Features[edit]
The house originally spanned 25,363 square feet (2,356.3 m2) and is decorated with details such as fireplaces and molded decorations.[7] It was originally designed in the Louis XIV style, with rooms arranged around a "court of honor". The first floor has an entrance hall that is accessed via the court of honor.[13] This hall measures 22 by 28 feet (6.7 by 8.5 m) and contains leaded glass windows, oak-and-iron doors from the entrance, a large fireplace, and a plaster ceiling with classical design details.[15] There is a large curving staircase up to the second floor,[13] with a metal balustrade, wall sconces, and various green-and-gold decorations.[15] At the front of the second floor is a drawing room measuring 25 by 26 feet (7.6 by 7.9 m) and a salon measuring 28 by 46 feet (8.5 by 14.0 m).[15] The upper stories were designed in a French style[13] and contained the family bedrooms and servants' quarters. Many of the rooms retained their original decorations in the 2000s, including doorknobs, chandeliers, and lamps.[15]
A New York Times article from 1941 described the house as having 28 rooms, including eight bathrooms.[2] At some point, a conservatory room was installed behind the main second-floor rooms. In the late 20th century, the interior of the house retained most of its original design details. For example, when a sprinkler line was installed, it passed over one of the house's original drapery rods.[15] When 9 East 72nd Street was combined with the neighboring 7 East 72nd Street in 2010, the combined houses included two levels of bedrooms, a swimming pool, and two top floors for the staff.[4] There was also a 8,500-square-foot (790 m2) terrace above the two houses.[16] Observer cites the two houses as occupying a combined 45,000 square feet (4,200 m2),[17] though the New York City Department of City Planning cites the gross floor area as 42,380 square feet (3,937 m2).[5]
History[edit]
9 East 72nd Street was originally constructed for Henry T. Sloane, whose father had founded the carpet firm W. & J. Sloane.[6][15] Various members of the family married into other affluent New York City families in the late 19th century.[18] These included Henry Sloane, who had, in 1880, married Jessie Ann Robbins, whose father was a partner in the wholesale drug firm of McKesson & Robbins.[6] The Sloanes lived on 54th Street until the 1890s, at a time when that part of Midtown Manhattan was filled with houses for the upper class.[15]
Original residence[edit]
Sloane ownership[edit]
By the mid-1890s, numerous wealthy families had settled on 72nd Street.[18][19] Henry Sloane initially may wanted to buy a lot at the corner of 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue, but that corner was already occupied.[8] Instead, he bought a 54-foot-wide site at 9 East 72nd Street.[8] Initially, Sloane wanted to hire both McKim, Mead & White and Richard Morris Hunt to design competing plans for the house. Hunt's wife said that Sloane had intended to combine elements of both architecture firms' plans, not knowing that doing so would be an ethical taboo for both firms.[10] Sloane ultimately hired John M. Carrère and Thomas Hastings of the firm.[15][20] Drawings of the house's interiors were publicized in The American Architect and Building News as early as December 1893.[13] Plans for the house were not formally filed with the New York City Department of Buildings until August 1894,[21] at which point the house was planned to cost $100,000.[20] The house took two years to construct,[15] and plans for the interior were modified during the construction process.[13]
The house was recorded as being vacant in mid-1896, when a burglary prompted a police watchman to be posted outside the Sloanes' house, though $300,000 worth of furniture had been moved into the house by September 1896.[22] One of the first events that the Sloanes hosted at the house was a dance party for more than 200 guests in January 1897,[23][24] an event they also hosted the following year.[25] The Sloanes lived in the house for only about three years.[15] Henry deeded the house to Jessie in October 1898.[26] Following a protracted disagreement, Henry separated from his wife in December 1898[27][28] and moved to his sister's house on 57th Street.[29] Jessie, who frequently communicated with friends via a messenger call box in the house, found that some of her messages were intercepted after the couple had separated.[30]
The Sloanes formally received a divorce in April 1899, when Jessie married Perry Belmont. Under the terms of the divorce, Jessie gave up the 72nd Street residence and agreed not to visit her two daughters until they turned 21 years old.[29] If Henry did not agree to buy back the house, it was to be sold, with their two daughters sharing the profits.[6][31] Henry agreed to buy the house that May, with the condition that he was to pay off about $64,000 worth of Jessie's personal debts; at the time, the house was valued at $450,000.[26][32] After Henry bought back the house, he did not live there.[10] Instead, in February 1900, Sloane leased the house to the publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who was living in the Hotel Netherland because his house at 55th Street had burned down. Pulitzer agreed to pay $17,500 a year in rent[33] for a lease that expired in May 1901.[34] Shortly after his family moved to 9 East 72nd Street, Pulitzer bought several lots one block north on 73rd Street for his permanent residence, the Joseph Pulitzer House.[35] The 1900 United States census shows that Pulitzer's household consisted of six people and that he employed another 17 servants.[15]
Subsequent ownership[edit]
In February 1901, the house was sold to James A. Stillman, the president of National City Bank of New York; the house was valued at $450,000.[34] At the time, Stillman also owned property at 17 and 19 East 72nd Street to the east.[34][36] as well as property on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 72nd Street to the west.[37][38] Stillman had planned to construct a mansion on the latter corner, to be designed by McKim, Mead & White,[38] but the mansion was never built, and that site remained vacant.[39] By 1905, Stillman was recorded as having shifted his primary residence out of New York City, though he did continue to live at 9 East 72nd Street.[40] Stillman had nine servants at the house,[15] including a chef whose cooking he reviewed every night. The few visitors he did invite had a largely negative impression of him, and whenever he invited family members over, he forced them to sit in silence for hours.[41] After retiring from National City Bank in 1909, Stillman spent most of his time in Paris.[10] Although he did host events such as a reception for his son's wedding in 1911,[42] one newspaper described the house the next year as one of several empty mansions in New York City.[43]
Stillman retained the house until he died of heart disease there in March 1918.[44] The carpet manufacturer and former U.S. representative John Sanford leased the house for a short time[45] before buying it in April 1919 at an estimated value of $500,000.[45][46] The Sanfords hosted events such as lecture-musicals,[47] a dinner honoring their son Stephen,[48] and debutante balls for their daughters Sarah and Gertrude.[49] Sanford's wife Ethel lived at the house until her death in 1924.[50] In the late 1920s, the Sanfords continued to host events at their house, such as dinners and dances.[51] Stephen Sanford was recorded as living at the house until he married the actress Mary Duncan in 1933,[52] as did Sarah until her own marriage in 1937.[53] John Sanford ultimately died in September 1939.[54] By that time, many mansions in the neighborhood were being demolished or converted to non-residential uses, as millionaires no longer chose to live in these mansions.[15]
The house was purchased by an unnamed client of Douglas Elliman in 1941.[2][3] Mary J. Riker was recorded as having owned the house after Sanford;[55] she bought the house to protect her residence at 7 East 72nd Street.[56] In early 1945, Riker successfully petitioned to have the house's value reduced by 62 percent for tax purposes.[57] Riker sold the house to Harold C. Mathews Jr. and Archibald Dudgeon that June.[56][58] The New York Herald Tribune reported in December 1946 that Mathews and Dudgeon transferred ownership of the house in December 1946 at an estimated value of $200,000,[59] but the Herald Tribune and The New York Times both record Harold Churchill Mathews as having owned the house through the next year.[60] In any case, Mrs. Sterling Boos bought the house from Mathews in September 1947 as a sanctuary for the "I AM" Activity religious movement; at the time, the house was valued at $185,000.[60] After Boos's acquisition, the house was occupied by the Sanctuary of the Master's Presence;[55] the interiors remained mostly unchanged even after its conversion to religious use.[15] The building also hosted events such as the 1959 wedding of Boos's daughter Marilyn.[61]
Use as school[edit]
In April 1964, the Lycée Français de New York, a French-language school, purchased 7 and 9 East 72nd Street from the Boos family for a combined $850,000. The school took out a $815,275 mortgage from Massachusetts Mutual, which covered both the 72nd Street houses and Lycee Francais's original building at 3 East 95th Street. At the time, the school had already operated 7 East 72nd Street for several years. and Paul L. Wood and Reginald E. Marsh were hired to renovate 9 East 72nd Street as an annex for the school.[62] The Municipal Art Society had installed a historic-landmark plaque on the house's facade by that point.[62] Lycee Francais formally opened its classrooms at 9 East 72nd Street on September 24, 1964; the school hosted classes in one of the houses' old ballrooms due to a lack of space.[63]
The school made relatively few alterations to the two houses over the years.[15] The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission considered designating 7 and 9 East 72nd Street as city landmarks in 1976[64] and granted the designations in January 1977, despite the school's opposition to either designation.[65] By the late 1970s, the houses at 7 and 9 East 72nd Street contained Lycee Francais's kindergarten through fourth grade classes.[66] Lycee Francais bought 12 East 73rd Street, a five-bedroom mansion behind the two 72nd Street houses,[67] for $4.3 million in 1994. The 73rd Street mansion was subsequently linked to the existing 72nd Street houses.[7]
After Lycee Francais developed a new building on York Avenue in the 2000s, the school originally considered keeping the six townhouses that it owned, including the houses at 7 and 9 East 72nd Street, but they were all protected as city landmarks, making it difficult to modify any of the houses without permission from the city government.[68] Instead, the school began looking to sell the six townhouses in August 2000 at a combined price of $100 million.[11][69] Initially, Lycee Francais hired Massey Knakal to market the buildings; school officials refused an offer to buy the buildings for $43 million.[7] When Lycee Francais hired the Corcoran Group as the new broker the next year, it sought $51 million for the two 72nd Street houses, including $30 million for 9 East 72nd Street.[7] By early 2001, the school had reduced its asking price for 9 East 72nd Street to $25 million.[70][71] Dozens of buyers expressed interest in the house, of which real estate broker Barbara Corcoran estimated that half wanted to convert it into a single-family home.[71] The 72nd Street houses remained unsold for over two years because of a decline in New York City real estate following the September 11 attacks.[69]
Conversion back to residence[edit]
Although an appraiser said in mid-2002 that the two buildings at 7 and 9 East 72nd Street could be sold for $25 million each,[19] they were ultimately sold for a combined $26 million.[7][72] The purchaser of the buildings was Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, then the Emir of Qatar,[4][73] who reportedly beat out the developer Donald Trump and an unknown bidder when he agreed to acquire the properties in August 2002.[7] The sale was finalized the next year.[74] The Qatari government began combining the two buildings into a single house in 2004; the project, designed by Thornton Tomasetti, took six years.[4]
The renovations of both buildings had been completed by 2010.[37] The combined mansion at 7–9 East 72nd Street covered 45,000 square feet (4,200 m2), making it New York City's largest single-family house.[17] It also became one of several dozen properties that the Qatari government owned in New York City.[72] Qatari Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani used the houses as her New York City residence, displaying her art collection across numerous rooms.[16] The country of Qatar bought the adjacent 12 East 73rd Street in 2017 to house the servants who were employed at 7–9 East 72nd Street.[16][75]
Reception[edit]
Upon the house's completion, the New-York Tribune called the residence "one of the most spacious and magnificent in New York",[24] and The New York Times described the house as "one of the handsomest of the newer uptown residences".[6] In 1900, Architectural Annual magazine described 7 and 9 East 72nd Street as "Enigmas: Hotels particuliers a New York – but not the French Quarter" in a picture caption.[15] A writer for The New York Times described the house in 1974 as "perhaps the finest of the Gallic limestones" to be developed around the Upper East Side's millionaire's row.[76] When the building was placed for sale in 2000, a reporter for the same paper said the building was "regarded by architects as one of the finest Beaux-Arts town houses in the city".[11] Christopher Gray of The New York Times wrote in 2011 that the house's design was "ultra-French" but was beaten out by the neighboring 7 East 72nd Street.[37]
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