The Cartier Mansion at six hundred fifty-three Fifth Avenue is a limestone, marble, and granite structure designed in a Neo-Renaissance style. It sits at the corner of Fifth Avenue and fifty-second Street, occupying a site once known as a…
Gilded Age Fifth Avenue Mansions
This walk traces the limestone châteaux, grand Italianate palazzos, and exclusive private clubs of Fifth Avenue's late-19th-century elite. You will see firsthand the architectural extravagance and social rivalries that defined New York's most opulent era.
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1. Cartier Fifth Avenue Mansion
2. The University Club of New York
The University Club of New York is a nine-story, pink granite palazzo that occupies the corner of Fifth Avenue and Fifty-Fourth Street. You can identify the structure by the stone seals of eighteen different colleges and universities…
3. Metropolitan Club
The Metropolitan Club occupies the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Sixtieth Street, distinguished by its white Tuckahoe marble facade and a grand wrought-iron entrance gate. Designed by Stanford White of the firm McKim, Mead and…
4. The Frick Collection
The Frick Collection is recognizable by its expansive Indiana limestone facade, which occupies an entire block along Fifth Avenue. This Gilded Age mansion was designed by architect Thomas Hastings and completed in nineteen fourteen as the…
5. Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo House
The Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo House stands on the corner of Madison Avenue and East Seventy-Second Street. You can identify this limestone mansion by its steep slate roof, spiky dormer windows, and carved facade, which were designed to…
6. Joseph Pulitzer Mansion
The Pulitzer Mansion stands as a limestone-clad, four-story structure on East Seventy-third Street, defined by its colonnaded second and third floors and a row of large arched windows. Completed in nineteen oh three, the building was…
7. James B. Duke House
The James B. Duke House is a limestone mansion at the corner of Fifth Avenue and East Seventy-eighth Street, identifiable by a stone balustrade that separates the building from the sidewalk. Completed in nineteen twelve, the residence was…
8. Ukrainian Institute of America
The Ukrainian Institute of America occupies a limestone mansion at the corner of Fifth Avenue and East Seventy-Ninth Street. You can identify it by its French Renaissance style, characterized by a steep slate-shingle mansard roof, Gothic…