591 Fifth Avenue
Posted on January 11, 2016 by — No Comments
The shiny shopping mall at 591 Fifth Avenue stands on the site of the fabulously wealthy Goelet Family’s mansion. A rather gloomy looking brownstone affair, the Goelet House outlasted most of its neighboring mansions and was inhabited by the family until the death of the last male heir in 1941; the Goelets’ Newport house, Ochre Court, was designed by Richard Morris Hunt and has survived as the main building of Salve Regina College.
The Goelets were major landowners in New York and commissioned some of the most distinguished buildings in the city. The present 591 Fifth Avenue is not one of them.