William Starr Miller House

The William Starr Miller House is a mansion at 1048 Fifth Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Prior to William Starr Miller, this site was the home to David Mayer (died in 1914), a founder of the David Mayer Brewing Company and a friend of Oscar S. Straus.[1]

William Starr Miller House
Cafe Sabarsky inside the Neue Galerie New York, the museum inside the William Starr Miller House

History

It was originally constructed for the industrialist William Starr Miller. Miller hired the renowned New York-based, Beaux-Arts architectural firm Carrere and Hastings to design a six-story Louis XIII style townhouse for himself and his family, to be located in Manhattan at 1048 Fifth Avenue (on the southeast corner at East 86th Street). The work was completed in 1914.[2]

William Starr Miller's daughter, Edith Starr Miller married the widowed Lord Queenborough in July 1921, in the music room. Miller died at the house in 1935 and his widow continued to live there until her death in 1944.[3]

After Mrs. Miller's death, the townhouse was occupied by Grace Vanderbilt (1870–1953), wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt III (1873–1942), and then by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Purchased in 1994 by art dealer and museum exhibition organizer Serge Sabarsky (1912–1996) and cosmetics billionaire Ronald S. Lauder (born 1944), the building was fully renovated by German architect Annabelle Selldorf and restored to its original state. It contains the Neue Galerie New York, which opened on November 16, 2001.

References
  1. "DAVID MAYER DIES AT 87.; Brewer Was a Founder of Temple Beth-El and Georgia Society". New York Times. New York Times. October 24, 1914.
  2. Carter B. Horsley. "1049 Fifth Avenue". New York City: The City Review. Archived from the original on July 12, 2010. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
  3. Ossman, Laurie; Ewing, Heather (2011). Carrère and Hastings, The Masterworks. Rizzoli USA. ISBN 9780847835645.

Further reading
  • Kathrens, Michael C. (2005). Great Houses of New York, 1880-1930. New York: Acanthus Press. p. 253. ISBN 978-0-926494-34-3.
  • Ossman, Laurie; Ewing, Heather (2011). Carrère and Hastings, The Masterworks. Rizzoli USA. ISBN 9780847835645

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