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Townhouse: 19 East 70 Th Street House

19 East 70th Street, New York, NY, 10021

  • 1 unit
  • 6 stories
  • Built in 1900
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Built for attorney David Hennen Morris and his wife, Alice Vanderbuilt Sheppard, a Vanderbuilt heiress, this unusually wide, 30’ home was designed by Thornton Chard in the Italian Renaissance style and erected in 1909.

Built for attorney David Hennen Morris and his wife, Alice Vanderbuilt Sheppard, a Vanderbuilt heiress, this unusually wide, 30’ home was designed by Thornton Chard in the Italian Renaissance style and erected in 1909. A 20,575 sq’, 7-story structure with a an elevator, it has high ceilings ranging from10 to 14 feet, 8 bedrooms, 2 libraries, terraces with copper flashing, and a garden. As an aside, David Morris was the founder of both the Aero Club of America and the Automobile Club of America and was appointed U.S. ambassador to Belgium by President Franklin Roosevelt.
Description by Marji Wollin


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Elevator

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Transportation

  • 6 at 68th St

    0.23 miles

  • 6 at 77th St

    0.39 miles

  • F Q at Lexington Av

    0.41 miles

  • Q at 72nd Street

    0.44 miles

  • F Q at 63rd Street

    0.47 miles

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Schools

District 02 - Schools zoned for this address:
East Side Elementary School, PS 267

(0K,01,02,03,04,05,SE)

J.H.S. 167 Robert F. Wagner

(06,07,08,SE)

Disclaimer: School attendance zone boundaries are not guaranteed to be accurate – they are provided by a third party and subject to change. Check with the applicable school district prior to making a decision based on these boundaries.

Colleges

  • Hunter College (CUNY)

    0.23 miles

  • New York School of Interior Design

    0.26 miles

  • Marymount Manhattan College

    0.39 miles

  • Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Science

    0.66 miles

  • Weill Cornell Medical College

    0.73 miles

Parks

  • Central Park

    0.1 miles

  • St. Catherine's Park

    0.56 miles

  • Grand Army Plaza

    0.59 miles

  • Tramway Plaza

    0.69 miles

  • 14 Honey Locusts Park

    0.75 miles

Museums

  • Frick Collection

    0.03 miles

  • Americas Society

    0.14 miles

  • Asia Society

    0.14 miles

  • Whitney Museum of American Art

    0.23 miles

  • Museum of American Illustration

    0.42 miles


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