The Juicy, 103-Year History of New York’s Famed Cartier Mansion
Would you believe us if we told you it was sold for a string of pearls?
Source: Hodinkee
Originally published by Jack Forster on Hodinkee.
It's possible to walk by the Cartier Mansion, on the corner of 52nd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City, without much of an idea of what it represents. A lot of people undoubtedly do. It's an impressive building – six stories of marble and granite, completed in 1905, in the neo-Renaissance style. The mansion sits in the shadow of a high-rise skyscraper – Olympic Towers – and in addition to having been the New York home of Cartier since 1917, it's also one of the last remnants of a long-gone world that exists now only in fragments, along a stretch of Fifth Avenue that used to be home to some of America's wealthiest and most powerful families.