730 Park Avenue

Residential in New York City, U.S.
40°46′14″N 73°57′53″W / 40.77045°N 73.96472°W / 40.77045; -73.96472Construction started1928Completed1929HeightArchitectural225 feet (69 m)Roof213 feet (65 m)Technical detailsFloor count19Design and constructionArchitect(s)Lafayette A. Goldstone and F. Burrall Hoffman

730 Park Avenue is a historic residential building in Lenox Hill on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. A cooperative, the building has 38 apartments.[1]

History

The nineteen-story building was completed in 1929.[2] It is 225 feet (69 m) high.[2] It was designed by architect Lafayette A. Goldstone, [2] with F. Burrall Hoffman, Jr.


Past tenants included Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr. (the founder of Advance Publications) and his wife Mitzi, philanthropist Edward Warburg, John Langeloth Loeb, Jr. (who served as the United States Ambassador to Denmark from 1981 to 1983), Lyman G. Bloomingdale (the co-founder of Bloomingdale's) and journalist Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ "730 Park Avenue". The New York Times. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
  2. ^ a b c "730 Park Avenue". Emporis. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
  3. ^ Wise, Dorothy Kalins (May 20, 1968). "Appraising the Most Expensive Apartment Houses in the City". The New York Magazine. p. 26. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
  4. ^ Gould Keil, Jennifer (13 October 2012). "Mike Wallace's sprawling $20 million Park Avenue apartment for sale". New York Post. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
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40°46′14″N 73°57′53″W / 40.77045°N 73.96472°W / 40.77045; -73.96472