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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1871/00/00 Griffith Thomas Architect After buying a lot at buys a lot at 12 E 53rd St Charles Moran, hires architect Griffith Thomas to design a mansion. The four brownstone features a steep, broad stoop and flat roof emblematic of New York residential architecture of the period.
1905/00/00 Walter G Oakman, Chairman of the Board of the Guaranty Trust Company, sells his townhouse to Harvey Edward Fisk, and move three blocks north to No 1 East 56th Street.
1906/00/00 Raleigh C Gildersleeve Architect Raleigh Gildersleeve's $25,000 (c half million today) remodel creates a neo-Tudor Gothic palace featuring diamond-paned windows, buttresses and drip moldings. The entrance of the Moran Mansion was moved to street level and relocates the facade.
1908/10/17 William L Harkness Home The sale of one of the finest residences in the Fifth Avenue section added a feature of unusual interest to yesterday's real estate dealings. The buyer is William L Harkness, a cousin of Edward S Harness of the Standard Oil Company. - The New York Times
1919/05/10 William L Harkness Died William L Harkness dies at his 53rd Street townhouse.
1919/05/13 William L Harkness In Memoriam William L Harkness funeral is held on the first floor of his townhouse.
1921/11/20 The fine home of Mrs William L Harkness is the latest to be taken over for trade in the new upper Fifth Avenue art colony. The property has been bought by Proctor and Co, interior decorators and dealers in furniture, fabrics, draperies and Oriental rugs.
1924/00/00 Automobile Club of America Owner Automobile Club of America buys the Proctor and Co building. The club's Women's Committee redecorates the edifice.
1927/12/03 The Junior League of the Union Hospital host a "bridge and dance" benefit.
1928/01/07 Beginning today, a series of four tea-dances are held at the Automobile Club of America, there will be tables of bridge.
1932/00/00 Automobile Club of America Dissolved After the Automobile Club of America dissolves in bankruptcy, the Mutual Life Insurance Company acquires the Fisk-Harkness House during foreclosure.
1938/05/00 Leasing from Mutual Life, Symons Galleries opens after an extensive renovation. Founded by Henry Symons in 1913, the gallery sells European antiques.
1964/00/00 Fisk house is bought by the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising. Founded in 1939, LIM is a private, undergraduate and graduate college focused on the business of fashion. The school hired Butler Rogers Baskett to gut and renovate the interiors.

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Particulars for Fisk-Harkness House:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Architectural Style Gothic Revival
Building Type Mansion
Owner Private
Historic Use Single dwelling
Historic Use Specialty Store




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