[Fifth Avenue by Arthur Bartlett Maurice]@TWC D-Link bookFifth Avenue CHAPTER XVIII 14/17
Painted originally for the _chere amie_ of Louis the Fifteenth, they are known as the Du Barry Panels, despite the fact that the fair lady did not find them quite satisfactory and the artist placed them in his own home on the shores of the Mediterranean. But before the Frick residence is reached there are the houses of Harry Payne Whitney (871) at the north-east corner of Sixty-eighth Street, Mrs.Joseph Stickney (874), Henry J.Topping (875), Frances Burton Harrison (876), Mrs.Ogden Mills (878), Mrs.E.H.Harriman (880), and Mrs.William E.S.Griswold (883).
Just beyond are Mrs.Abercrombie Burden (898), James A.Burden (900), John W.Sterling (912), Samuel Thorne (914), Nicholas F.Palmer (922), George Henry Warren (924), Mrs. Herbert Leslie Terrell (925), John Woodruff Simpson (926), Simeon B. Chapin (930), Mortimer L.Schiff (932), Lamon V.Harkness (933), Alfred M.Hoyt (934), and Edwin Gould (936).
Then, at Seventy-sixth Street, is the Temple Beth-El, which was completed in 1891, and which represents the first German-Jewish congregation in this country, dating back to 1826.
The dwelling houses that come next belong to Mrs.Samuel W. Bridgham (954), and J.Horace Harding (955).
Then, at the northeast corner of Seventy-seventh Street, is the famous house of Senator W.A. Clark, reputed to have been built at a cost of fifteen million dollars. Beyond, Charles F.Dietrich (963), Mrs.George H.Butler (964), Jacob H. Schiff (965), William V.Lawrence (969), the James B.Duke house with its simple lines at the Seventy-eighth Street corner, Payne Whitney (972), Isaac D.Fletcher (977), Howard C.Brokaw (984), Irving Brokaw (985), William J.Curtis (986), Walter Lewisohn (987), Hugh A.Murray (988), Nicholas F.Brady (989), Frank W.Woolworth (990), D.Crawford Clark (991), E.D.Faulkner (992), Mrs.Hugo Reisinger (993)--there is an apartment house at 998 where the rents are so high that it is popularly known as the "Millionaires Apartments"-- Mrs.Henry G. Timmerman (1007), Angier B.Duke (1009), J.Francis A.Clark (1013), Senator George B.Peabody Wetmore (1015), Mrs.W.M.Kingland (1026), and George Crawford Clark (1027). This part of the Avenue faces the Obelisk, Cleopatra's Needle, a present to the United States from the Khedive of Egypt, brought to this country in 1877, and erected here in 1880; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the latter on the site of what was once the Deer Park.
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