The
R. Fulton Cutting residence designed by
Ernest Flagg c. 1898 at 24 East 67th Street at the corner of Madison Avenue in
New York City. Cutting was chairman of the
Citizens' Union, a prominent reform organization, click
HERE to see their 1901 campaign book. Cutting died in 1919 and in 1922 the home was substantially altered to provide for stores on the lower floors and apartments above. The September 1922
Evening Telegram stated that the house was "the scene of some of the most notable incidents in the fashionable life of New York". The Cutting family subsequently moved further uptown. I do not believe the altered building to be extant.
The R. Fulton Cutting residence designed by Ernest Flagg c. 1898 at 24 East 67th Street at the corner of Madison Avenue in New York City. Cutting was chairman of the Citizens' Union, a prominent reform organization, click HERE to see their 1901 campaign book. Cutting died in 1919 and in 1922 the home was substantially altered to provide for stores on the lower floors and apartments above. The September 1922 Evening Telegram stated that the house was "the scene of some of the most notable incidents in the fashionable life of New York". The Cutting family subsequently moved further uptown. I do not believe the altered building to be extant.
Photos from Architectural Record, 1901.
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(I seem to remember a number of racy Peck & Peck jokes from college, none of which are suitable for retelling.)
ah yes, we made our share of Peck & Peck jokes in our youth also (not to be confused with the fun we also made of Peck & Peck sensibility in general).
Handsome, stern house. Excellent plan and nicely scaled interiors. How short a time it all lasts...
Sadly, this house was replaced by a bland Late International Style retail/office building. I was not familiar with this house, but always thought Ernest Flagg was a good residential architect, unusual since he was better known for his commercial buildings.
I remember, in my youth, being at the original (less touristy) Jordan Pond House in Seal Harbor for dinner At a nearby table was a group, the eldest of whom looked like a ghost from the Edwardian era (think Queen Mary. They were pointed out to me as among others, Mrs. Ernest Flagg and her daughter, and Eleanor Belmont, if I remember correctly (and I'm pretty sure I do). At that age, it seemed so remarkable that the widow of the man who designed the Singer building could possibly be still alive, let alone the sister-in-law of Alva Vanderbilt. Now, forty-odd years later, I get it.
What's a Peck and Peck joke?
Peck & Peck jokes, which date back forty to sixty years, contrasted the inherent conservatism of the clothes worn by the young women of the Ivy Colleges' sister schools (Wellesley, Smith, Vassar, Holyoke, etc.) with the invariable social and moral indignities to which these lovely young women were subjected, gleefully or not, when they ventured too close to Harvard Square (or if they were slumming, New Haven, or lost in a blizzard, Hanover).
All these jokes were, of course, by both definition and design, appalling.
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