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1929 1040 Fifth Avenue & 85th
Featured in Andrew Alpern’s book The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter page 80
NB 560-1929
Fifth Avenue, 1039-1044
16-sty brick & t c apt, 112×90
Cost:
$1,300,000
Owner:
No 1 Sutton Sq. Corp., Anthony A. Paterno, pres, 578 Madison av
Architect:
Rosario Candela, 578 Madison av
Address in Real Estate Record:
5TH AV, 1039-1044
Located in Metropolitan Museum Historic District designated 20 September 1977
– Anthony Campagna Paterno 1040 Fifth Avenue at 85th Street
– listed as Anthony A. Paterno by Kelley Paterno on page 287
Architect Rosario Candela; Builder One Sutton Square Corporation Anthony A. Paterno President; Joseph A. Schaefer Secretary (Alpern Acanthus page 80) – northeast corner of 85th Street
As the former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was the subject of many a prying eye. A year after her husband President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, she moved to New York’s Upper East Side in an attempt to get some peace and privacy for her and her children. Her apartment, located at 1040 Fifth Avenue, was an über spacious apartment in a building designed by Rosario Candela, who was responsible for the construction of some of New York’s most luxurious buildings. Though it is 17 stories, it only has 27 apartments. (source)
1040 is one of the tallest of the limestone-clad apartment houses on Fifth Avenue. The prominent 18-story structure has one of the most distinctive rooflines along the avenue. The canopied entrance has very attractive cast-iron doors and extensive sidewalk landscaping. The facade, which has had many repairs, is relatively plain except for several sculpted faces at the fifth story. The large building has only 27 apartments and has had many prominent residents including the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who purchased a penthouse apartment on the 15th floor in 1964 and lived there for thirty years until her death in 1994. The building was erected in 1930 and was designed by Rosario Candela, one of the city’s most prominent designers of luxury apartment buildings in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The asymmetrical roof, which is setback and clad in a pale yellow brick, has several tall arches whose openings were filled nicely with huge windows in the late 1990s in a remodeling of the spectacular penthouse. Architecture critic Paul Goldberger describes 1040 Fifth Avenue as being one of “the great apartment houses of the 1920s.” 1040 Fifth Avenue on Wikipedia
New York Times (1923-); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]. 08 Oct 1929: 60.
New York Herald Tribune (1926-1962); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]. 13 July 1930: E2.
