Otto Kahn House

Completed in 1918, for Otto Kahn (1867-1934) and his wife Addie Wolff (1875-1949). Their c.65-room townhouse stands on the corner of Fifth Avenue facing Central Park. The 50,316 square feet mansion was in their day a gathering place for artists and intellectuals as well as business leaders. Constructed with Caen Stone on the lower two stories and French limestone from St. Quentin above, it was designed by C.P.H. Gilbert and modelled after the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome, with perhaps some inspiration taken from another home they briefly occupied, 2 Carlton House Terrace...