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1931 834 Fifth Avenue
– Anthony Campagna President; Michael Campagna Vice President (Kelley Paterno page 287)
Featured in Andrew Alpern’s book Posh Portals page 112.
Featured in Andrew Alpern’s book Luxury Apartment Houses of Manhattan page 109-110.
Architect Rosario Candela; Builder 833 Fifth Avenue Corporation 551 Fifth Avenue Anthony Campagna President; Michael Campagna Vice President (Alpern Acanthus page 40) Northeast Corner of 64th Street
Located in Upper East Side Historic District designated 19 May 1981
1929
567
$1,300,000.00
5TH [Fifth] AV, 833-836 14-sty bk apt, 119˙105
OWNER / OWNER ADDRESS
(o) 833 Fifth Av. Corp., Anthony A. Campagna, pres / COMMENTS
ARCHITECT / ARCHITECT ADDRESS
(a) Rosario Candela / (a) 578 Madison av (source)
What Makes This NYC Co-op One of the City’s Most Exclusive – 834 Fifth Avenue has reigned as one of the world’s most desirable addresses for decades By Carrie Hojnicki August 22, 2017
– between 64th and 65th streets overlooking the Central Park zoo
Inside Manhattan’s Most Elite Address: The Billionaires, Financiers And Heirs Of 834 Fifth Avenue by Chloe Sorvino Jul 28, 2016,08:30am EDT
“834 Fifth Avenue is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious apartment houses in New York City. It has been called “the most pedigreed building on the snobbiest street in the country’s most real estate-obsessed city” in an article in the New York Observer newspaper.” Wikipedia
Historic interior views at Museum of the City of New York
FIFTH AVENUE between 64th Street and 65th Street No. 834 (1379/1)
Date Architect Owner: Erected 1930 by Rosario Candela Anthony Campagna
ARCHITECTURE: Style neo-Renaissance
Elements: Fourteen-story apartment building with penthouse on a corner site; limestone facing, rusticated at the first three floors; all windows square-headed except for one large round-arched bay at the eleventh and twelfth floors on the East 64th Street facade;
band courses above and below the fourth floor, and above the eleventh floor; set back above the twelfth floor.
HISTORY: Replaced five private houses, a pair (Nos. 832 and 834) by Warren & Wetmore and three (Nos. 831, 835 and 836) by D. & J. Jardine that were erected between 1871 and 1872. (Nos. 831 and 835 were later given new facades).
References: Paul Goldberger, The City Observed: New York (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), page 230
Alexandra Cushing Howard, Fifth Avenue and Central Park, Building-Structure Inventory (Albany: Division for Historic Preservation, 1975).
New York City, Department of Buildings, Manhattan, Plans, Permits and Dockets. (source)
A block and a half south is a discreet limestone pile designed by another specialist in rarified residential restraint, Rosario Candela. Built by the prolific developer Anthony Campagna, 834 [Fifth Avenue] has a high preponderance of duplexes, with no more than three units to a floor, and was known for many years for housing senior members of the Rockefeller family. A little-known fact is that it was planned as a smaller mid-block building, but after the steelwork was already in place, the developer unexpectedly was able to purchase the grand mansion on the corner. That elegant, almost-new residence was summarily taken down and 834 Fifth Avenue was extended 25 feet to the corner of East 64th Street. Luxury Apartment Houses of Manhattan by Andrew Alpern pages 109-110
The limestone elegance of 834 Fifth Avenue circa 1950. The arched double-height window high on the south facade lights the stairwell of a duplex. Luxury Apartment Houses of Manhattan by Andrew Alpern page 110
Architectural Digest: Tour Rosario Candela’s Most Iconic Work, 2018
“Original floor plans for 1931’s 834 Fifth Ave., regarded as one of Candela’s prime properties, reveal a sprawling 17-room full-floor apartment, where small servants’ quarters cluster around the kitchen and pantry. A nearly 40-foot-long living room connects the dining room, gallery and library — all adjacent to servant work areas. Off in their own wing: five bedrooms, each with their own bathroom.” How an immigrant with $20 to his name redefined the NYC luxury apartment By Zachary Kussin May 22, 2018
“By the time of the stock market crash on Oct. 29, 1929, plans for his six most-famed buildings — including 740 Park and 834 Fifth — had been designed and filed. “They represented the final display of fireworks before the Depression descended, and they were completed only after its effects had begun to be felt,” Alpern wrote. “The fat years had ended with a bang.””How an immigrant with $20 to his name redefined the NYC luxury apartment By Zachary Kussin May 22, 2018
Data collected from blueprints:
1st and 2nd floors 14 rooms 7 baths lavatory 24 closets 126,000 Apartment A Maisonette 833 Fifth Avenue
1st and 2nd floors 11 Rooms 4 baths lavatory 22 closets 73,000 Apartment B Maisonette 835 Fifth Avenue
3rd and 4th floors 13 rooms 6 baths lavatory 23 closets 138,000 Apartment A
3rd and 4th floors 12 rooms 4 baths 2 lavatories 16 closets 118,000 Apartment B Duplex
5th floor 10 rooms 4 baths lavatory 18 closets 5A 95,000 7A 115,000 Apartment A
6th floor 17 rooms 7 baths lavatory 24 closets 172,000 full floor
7th floor 10 rooms 4 baths lavatory 18 closets 5A 95,000 7A 115,000 Apartment A
8th floor 17 rooms 7 baths lavatory 28 closets 205,000 full floor
9th floor 16 rooms 7 baths lavatory 26 closets 218,000 full floor
10th floor 16 rooms 7 baths lavatory 24 closets 223,000 full floor
11th floor 16 rooms, 7 baths, lavatory, 23 closets 228,000 full floor
12th floor 14 rooms 5 baths lavatory 18 closets 220,000 full floor
