Tag: MetroHistory
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Building of the Week: 998 Fifth Avenue
1948 photograph of 998 Fifth Avenue, from the collection of the Office for Metropolitan History 998 Fifth Avenue, designed by McKim, Mead & White in 1909, is one of the most majestic ever built in New York, or even in the United States. The developer was James T. Lee, grandfather of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who…