New York Mansion (1 E. 78th Street), 1908-1975
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Completed in 1912, the 32-room house at the northeast corner of 78th Street and Fifth Avenue was designed by architect Horace Trumbauer. The 40,000 square foot, five story granite and limestone house was said to have been originally modeled after the Hotel Labottiere, a Bordeaux townhouse constructed in the 18th century. In a December, 1957 appraisal of the house (appraised at $1.85 million) it was described as "probably the finest of the old elegant mansion type houses built in New York City." In January, 1958 Doris Duke and her mother Nanaline donated the house to New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, where it was to be named the James B. Duke House. At the time, the house was worth an estimated $1.6 million.
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