The view of 972 Fifth Avenue at right shows that the row up to 79th Street has been kept intact with the architecture of the Gilded Age. In fact, the James Duke house just below 972 Fifth Avenue with 1 East 78th Street address looks like a Carrère & Hastings special, resembling the Frick Museum and the Esopus Mansion. So the entire block reminds one of what much of Fifth Avenue looked like during the late 1890s and 1900s. Nowadays, this block is unique, as most of Fifth Avenue is covered with high rise apartments.

10 February 2002

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