Charles Schwab Mansion
Schwab built one of the grandest mansions the city has ever seen.
Charles schwab mansion. The north braddock baseball team poses in a field adjacent to the schwab dixon mansion in 1922. Schwab was president of u s. The dinkey children appear on the porch in the postcard in the gallery at this site.
A shot of the mansion that dates to the mid to late 1920s. Schwab mansion was the most lavish of the turn of the century villas on riverside drive. See more ideas about american mansions mansions victorian homes.
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. The steel magnate charles m. 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.
Charles e dinkey schwab s brother in law who had briefly been with the mackintosh hemphill foundry 1901 1920. 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. Aug 21 2016 new york demolished.
Schwab taken around his early 20s. However the charles schwab mansion did not enjoy the same. 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 named riverside house were opened in 1947 for the sale of the interior fittings among the 100 viewers was s. On riverside drive between 73rd street and 74th. Frank slick late 1933 1937 before this slick lived at 809 kirkpatrick adjacent to captain jones mansion.
The schwab mansion was the largest of three massive mansions built by steel magnates in manhattan the other two being the current frick collection fifth avenue and 70th and the current cooper hewitt museum fifth and 91st built by henry clay frick and andrew carnegie respectively. But it was out of step with the times and stood for less than 40 years. Schwab s estate sold immergrün after his death and it is now mount assisi friary on the grounds of saint francis university.
An early shot of charles m.
