Jerome Mansion

Demolished mansion in Manhattan, New York

40°44′33″N 73°59′11″W / 40.7424°N 73.9863°W / 40.7424; -73.9863Construction started1859Completed1865Demolished1967CostUS$200,000OwnerLeonard JeromeDesign and constructionArchitect(s)Thomas R. JacksonReferences^[1]

The Jerome Mansion was a mansion on the corner of East 26th Street and Madison Avenue, across from Madison Square Park, in the modern NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was the home of financier Leonard Jerome, one of the city's richest and most influential men in the middle- to late-19th century.^[2] It was built from 1859 to 1865 and demolished in 1967.^[1]

History

The six-story mansion featured a mansard roof, which was fashionable at the time,^[2] as well as a six hundred-seat theatre, a breakfast room which could serve up to seventy people, a white and gold ballroom with champagne and cologne fountains,^[3] and a "splendid" view of the park. Jerome's daughter Jennie Jerome, who grew up in the mansion, was the mother of Winston Churchill.

When Jerome moved uptown, the mansion was sold and housed a series of private clubs including the Union League Club from 1868 to 1881, the University Club, and the Turf Club. From 1899, it housed the Manhattan Club,^[4] a bastion of Democratic politicians such as Samuel J. Tilden, Grover Cleveland, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Alfred E. Smith.^[5] On November 23, 1869, the Jerome Mansion was the site of the meeting that founded the Metropolitan Museum of Art.^[6]

The building was given landmark status in 1965, but when the owner was unable to find a buyer for it after two years, it was permitted to be torn down in 1967, to be replaced by the New York Merchandise Mart.^[7]

References

Notes

^ ^a ^b "Leonard W. Jerome Mansion, HABS No. NY 5470" (PDF). Historic American Buildings Survey.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ ^a ^b Burrows & Wallace
^ Burrows & Wallace, p. 960
^ Henry Watterson (1915). History of the Manhattan Club: A Narrative of the Activities of Half a Century. De Vinne Press. pp. 72–. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
^ "Famous Manhattan Club Is Fifty Years Old: Since Its Founding in 1865 the Noted Democratic Organization Has Many Times Played a Prominent Part in the History of New York". The New York Times. 10 October 1915. ProQuest 97673063.
^ "The Founding of the Museum of Art; Speech of Samuel P. Avery at the Dinner to Robert Gordon". The New York Times. 1894-12-09. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
^ Mendelsohn, Joyce (1998), Touring the Flatiron: Walks in Four Historic Neighborhoods, New York: New York Landmarks Conservancy, p. 26, ISBN 0-964-7061-2-1, OCLC 40227695

Bibliography

Burrows, Edwin G. and Wallace, Mike (1999). Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-195-11634-8.

External links

Media related to Jerome Mansion at Wikimedia Commons
"The Lost 1859 Leonard Jerome Mansion -- Madison Avenue at 26th Street". Dayton in Manhattan. October 24, 2011.
"The Leonard Jerome Mansion". The Gilded Age Era. January 24, 2013.

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