. Scenes of modern New York . RESIDENCE OF CHAS. M. SCHWAB. This magnificent architectural pileoccupies a commanding position on Riverside Drive. It is unique because ofthe extent of lawn. Most New York houses, even those of the millionaries, arecrowded together with little or no open land about them. But this residenceoccupies an entire square and is said to have cost five million dollars. Copyright, Irving Underbill, N. HOUSE. Fifth Avenue, 91st to 92nd streets. Presented byAndrew Carnegie the famous steel manufacturer and philanthropist to his daugh-ter, Margaret Carnegie, as a b
. Scenes of modern New York . RESIDENCE OF CHAS. M. SCHWAB. This magnificent architectural pileoccupies a commanding position on Riverside Drive. It is unique because ofthe extent of lawn. Most New York houses, even those of the millionaries, arecrowded together with little or no open land about them. But this residenceoccupies an entire square and is said to have cost five million dollars. Copyright, Irving Underbill, N. HOUSE. Fifth Avenue, 91st to 92nd streets. Presented byAndrew Carnegie the famous steel manufacturer and philanthropist to his daugh-ter, Margaret Carnegie, as a birthday gift. The house is said to have cost threemillion dollars. It contains nearly one hundred rooms decorated in lavish J. P. MORGANS RESIDENCE AND LIBRARY, Madison Avenue and 36th Street. The home and private library of the great American master-financier. Theresidence is architecturally plain, but the library, built of Tennessee marble, in Italian Renaissance style, is one of the most beautiful structures in New are housed Mr. Morgans collection of priceless manuscripts and rare editions. The building has figured in the financial history of the country, for it washere the famous day and night conferences were held in October, 1907, which resulted in averting a world-wide panic.
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