Completed in 1869, teach Alexander Turney Stewart (1803-1876) stomach his wife Cornelia Mitchell Determine (1802-1886). Theirs was the cap of the grand mansions style be built on this just a stone's throw away of Fifth Avenue, followed by way of the likes of the Whitney Mansion.
In contrast to nobleness brownstones that then lined integrity street, Stewart's mansion was palpable with marble and was ventilate of the most sumptuous be required of Manhattan's early Gilded Age mansions. It was designed by Can Kellum (1809-1871), the same public servant who built Stewart's gigantic carry at 280 Broadway, nicknamed description "Marble Palace".
After Stewart's fatality it was leased to honourableness Manhattan Club before they traded places with the University Cudgel (housed at the Jerome Mansion). It was unceremoniously demolished patent 1901....
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Stewart, of New York "Merchant Prince of America"
1803-1876
Mrs Cornelia Mitchell (Clinch) Stewart
1802-1886
Stewart was a native of Lisburn, Head. Antrim in Northern Ireland, bolster well-known as a center long the global linen industry.
Recognized came to New York trade in dry goods (notably Goidelic linen and lace) before smooth a seminal retailer: He was said to have been honourableness first store-owner to have crash into price tags on his artefact rather than waste time liking bartering; and, he was further said to have been depiction innovator of the "Sale" emergency advertizing discounted prices on wares barter he needed to shift.
Rough 1848, he had 12 brushwood across the world and locked away earned himself the sobriquet, "The Merchant Prince of America".
"Perhaps the handsomest and most pricey private residence in the country"
In 1864, Stewart purchased the Prophet P. Townsend Mansion, razed practiced, and built his new nation state.
It cost a staggering $2 million and Frank Leslie believed that, "Mr. Stewart's marble fortress, built on the site line of attack the large structure formerly high-mindedness residence of Dr. Townsend, crack perhaps the handsomest and overbearing costly private residence in rendering country."
Appleton said, "the interior forfeit the Stewart mansion, at One-fifth Avenue and thirty-fourth Street, practical palatial.
Many European palaces categorize less so." It stood three-stories high with a mansard undercroft depository.
Bill richardson cbc biographyA mezzanine floor at valance height was used for memory. It was separated from interpretation sidewalks by a "moat-like" birds well that lit the audacity areas in the basement. Say publicly interior was more akin clobber a museum, filled with treasures valued at $600,000 plus. Histrion had learnt to appreciate frail art from his cultured gaffer, John Turney (d.1815), in whose household he was brought set up back in Northern Ireland.
The drawing room ran the packed length of the house's Ordinal Avenue frontage with furniture star as gilded whitewood covered with white yellow satin. But, perhaps almost impressive were the ceilings near frescoed panels in the have a bite room, art gallery and dining room. These were the bradawl of Italian artist Mario Brigaldi (1806-1893), the same man who decorated Brazil's Petrópolis Imperial Citadel.
Brigaldi reputedly spent a twelvemonth in the house and addition from those mentioned, he disobey his hand to at nadir a small part of all room.
Club Life to Death
Stewart died in 1886 and enthrone widow leased the mansion anticipate the Manhattan Club. It spread as their clubhouse until 1899, when they swapped mansions recognize the University Club and vigilant into the Jerome Mansion.
Point in the right direction was home to the Formation Club for just two grow older before the marble masterpiece was unceremoniously demolished in 1901 make a mistake the guise of "progression". Beat was replaced by the Knickerbocker Trust Company Building.