The
Jacob H. Schiff residence designed by
Freeman & Thain c. 1901 at 965 Fifth Avenue in
New York City. Schiff was the senior member of the firm
Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and the most prominent Jewish banker of his day, playing a central role in Stephen Birmingham's book
Our Crowd. Schiff was the son-in-law of
Solomon Loeb, a founder of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and the father of
Mortimer Schiff and
Frieda Schiff Warburg. He
died in the house in 1920 and the residence was demolished in 1938 and replaced with an apartment house by the same address. Photo from the Museum of the City of New York.
5 comments:
Just two fewer bulls eye dormers on the fifth floor.
elegant design--can't make up it's mind which Louis inspired it---XIV, XV or XVI
How will you space the remaining 3?
-F
A very attractive house, although I wonder why it survived 18 years after his death, it is a shame that it is gone.
Flo,
You challenge me---I'm stumped now that I try to work it out.
I've taken them down to two, then back up to three, removed them all, removed their surrounds -- but nothing seems to calm the intrusion [ie the applied-not-integrated nature] of the mansard floor pediments. I get their formally intended duty in cap-off service below, yet my final resolution is to retain their relative positions, remove them from implied duty below, raise the three pediments into full size dormers, reduce the scale, set them back into the receding roofline, tuck an unframed/reframed orb into each of three now-pedimented dormers, send one of the virtual castoff framed dormers to DED, the other to Flo, and call it a day.
-F
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