NYC, William A. Clark House, 1910
The William A. Clark House, also known as "Clark's Folly", was a mansion located at 952 Fifth Avenue on the northeast corner of its intersection with East 77th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Clark, a wealthy entrepreneur and politician from Montana, commissioned the New York firm of Lord and Hewlett to build the house in 1897. The house was completed in 1911, after numerous legal disputes, at a cost of $7 million ($177,775,000 in 2015). The house contained 121 rooms, 31 baths, four art galleries, a swimming pool, a concealed garage, and a private underground rail line to bring in coal for heat. In 1925, upon Clark's death, his widow and daughter moved to 907 Fifth Avenue, where the annual rental for a full-floor apartment was about $30,000. The mansion was sold to Anthony Compagana for $3 million ($40,480,000 in 2015) who had it torn down, just 19 years after being built. George Grantham Bain Collection, 1910.
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