[Fifth Avenue by Arthur Bartlett Maurice]@TWC D-Link bookFifth Avenue CHAPTER XVIII 11/17
At the south-east corner of Sixty-second Street is the Knickerbocker Club, which moved there a few years ago from the home it held so long at the Avenue and Thirty-second Street, but before it is reached are passed the residences of Mrs.J.A. Bostwick (800), Mrs.Fitch Gilbert (801), William Emlen Roosevelt (804), and William Lanman Bull (805).
On Sixty-second Street, near the Knickerbocker, is the house of the late Joseph H.Choate.
Continuing along the Avenue to Sixty-eighth Street the residences are: Mrs. Hamilton Fish (810), Francis L.Loring (811), George G.McMurty (813), Robert L.Gerry (816), Clifford V.Brokaw (825), Henry Mortimer Brooks (826), William Guggenheim (833), Frank Jay Gould (834), Frederick Lewisohn (835), Mrs.Isadore Wormser (836), Mrs.William Watts Sherman (838), Vincent Astor (840), Mrs.Henry O.Havemeyer, south-east corner of Sixty-sixth (No.
3 East Sixty-sixth is the former home of General Grant), Miss Elizabeth Kean (844), George Barney Schley (845), the late Colonel Oliver H.Payne (852), George Grant Mason (854), Perry Belmont (855), Judge Elbert H.Gary (856), George J.Gould (857), and Thomas F. Ryan (858). At this point begins what prior to 1840 was the farm of Robert Lenox, extending on to what is now Seventy-third Street.
The uncle of Robert Lenox was a British commissary during the Revolution.
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