Elbridge Gerry Mansion

The Elbridge Gerry Mansion in 1895, when newly built.


The Elbridge T. Gerry Mansion was a lavish mansion built in 1895 at Fifth Avenue and 61st Street in Manhattan. It was built for Elbridge Thomas Gerry (1837–1927), a grandson of statesman Elbridge Gerry.

It was designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt as a French Renaissance chateau. Plans for the house were formally announced in The New York Times on May 15, 1892. Construction began by 1895 and it was opened officially in 1897.[1] The entrance of the structure was based on the Louis XIII wing of the Château de Blois.[2]

The mansion survived just 32 years. It was demolished in 1929 to make way for The Pierre hotel.[1]

Its front entrance was via an iron porte-cochère.[1]

It included sculptural spandrel figures Night and Day by Isidore Konti.[3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Tom Miller (June 11, 2012). "The Lost Elbridge T. Gerry Mansion -- Fifth Avenue and 61st Street".
  2. ↑ Stern Robert A.M., Gregory Gilmartin, and John Montague, New York 1900: Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890-1915, Rizzoli International Publications Inc. 1983p. 316
  3. ↑ Madigan, Mary Jean Smith, The Sculpture of Isidore Konti: 1862-1938, Hudson River Museum, 1975, number 10

Coordinates: 40°45′56″N 73°58′19″W / 40.765547°N 73.971901°W / 40.765547; -73.971901

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