Charles M Schwab Mansion
Schwab was president of u s.
Charles m schwab mansion. The house featured opulent gardens and a nine hole golf course. The steel magnate charles m. While carnegie and frick built their palaces on fifth avenue.
Schwab built one of the grandest mansions the city has ever seen. Schwab assistant superintendent of the edgar thomson works in braddock pa began in 1888. He was so intent on rivaling andrew carnegie his partner in the united states steel corporation schwab purchased the site of the orphan asylum society encompassing the entire block between west end avenue and the drive seventy third and.
Rather than raze the existing house schwab had the mansion moved 200 feet 61 m on rollers to a new location to make room for the new mansion. Schwab started life in a modest family home and ended life in a small new york city apartment insolvent. Schwab s riverside house was according to the new york times the most pretentious house in new york photo the library of congress when the doors of the gargantuan charles m.
Schwab mansion was the most lavish of the turn of the century villas on riverside drive. On riverside drive between 73rd street and 74th. But in 1906 schwab eclipsed these two captains of industry in one regard.
Schwab and was the grandest and most ambitious house ever built on the island of manhattan the home was considered by many to be the classic example of. Schwab s estate sold immergrün after his death and it is now mount assisi friary on the grounds of saint francis university. Schwab mansion named riverside house were opened in 1947 for the sale of the interior fittings among the 100 viewers was s.
He would soon become superintendent on the death of captain bill jones whose mansion still stands about a block away on kirkpatrick street. Aug 21 2016 new york demolished. Schwab house also called riverside was an extravagant 75 room mansion located on riverside drive between west 73rd and west 74th streets on the upper west side in new york city it was constructed for steel magnate charles m.
Steel founded by andrew carnegie and also founded bethlehem steel company. He built a larger more magnificent manhattan mansion. Along the way he acquired four splendid mansions two of them were spectacular.
But it was out of step with the times and stood for less than 40 years. See more ideas about american mansions mansions victorian homes. In 1862 charles michael schwab was born in williamsburg pa to john anthony schwab and pauline farabaugh.
