Pinchot House

1021 Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York

Built in 1907, for Amos R.E. Pinchot (1872-1944) and his first wife, Gertrude Minturn (1871-1939). Standing on the north east corner of East 85th Street and Park Avenue, it rose four-stories high with a facade of 82-feet and a depth of 42-feet. It was designed by Richard Howland Hunt, the eldest son of the more famous architect Richard Morris Hunt who designed Pinchot's childhood and later country home, Grey Towers, in Pennsylvania. By 1914, the Pinchot marriage was strained and he leased his home to Vincent Astor. Two years later, its new tenant was Mrs Maggie Vanderbilt whose husband had died on the Lusitania in the previous year. She kept this as a townhouse while mainly living at Ventfort Hall. In 1917, it was leased to J.C. Baldwin Jr., of Mount Kisco, for $20,000 a year, and it was sold later that same year....

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Amos Richards Eno Pinchot

Amos R.E. Pinchot, Political Lobbyist, of New York City & Washington D.C.

1872-1944

Gertrude (Minturn) Pinchot

Mrs Gertrude (Minturn) Pinchot

1871-1939

Vincent Astor

Captain (William) Vincent Astor, Founder of the Vincent Astor Foundation

1891-1959

Margaret (Emerson) Vanderbilt

Mrs "Maggie" Mary (Emerson) McKim, Vanderbilt, Baker

1886-1960

In 1917, Pinchot's political career was at rock bottom and before divorcing his wife he sold his townhouse to Edward Stettinius (1865-1925), President of the Diamond Match Company in Barberton, Ohio. Stettinius had come to New York as a partner in J.P. Morgan to co-ordinate purchasing war supplies for the Allied armies. The house was then valued at $210,000, of which $135,000 was land value. He died in 1925 at his country home in Locust Valley and left everything including his townhouse in Manhattan to his wife, Judith. She sold up just two years later to developers and in 1928 it was announced that Anthony Campagna would build a 14-story co-operative in its place that still stands today.