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W.C. Whitney Mansion
W.C. Whitney Mansion
Street Scene - 1900, Fifth Ave. at 68th St.
The W.C. Whitney mansion on the corner of 5th Ave. and 68th St. Horse-drawn carriages can be seen on 68th Street and there appears to be construction work ongoing as a large pile of rubble can also be seen on 68th Street.
IMAGE DATE1900
W.C. Whitney ca. 1901-1902
William Collins Whitney and his second wife were the third owners of this mansard-roofed brownstone mansion. Mrs. Whitney died just prior to the 1899 completion of its three-year interior renovation, and her husband died in 1904 of appendicitis. Built by architect William Schickel in the early 1880s, the house passed through several hands over the years, until its 1942, just nine months after the death of its final occupant, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.