Henry T. Sloane House

The Henry T. Sloane House is a mansion located at 9 East 72nd Street on the Upper East Side of the borough of Manhattan, New York City. It was designed by Carrère and Hastings in the late French Renaissance style and built in 1894.

Henry T. Sloane House
Historical plaque

History

It was originally constructed for Henry T. Sloane, son of a founder of the carpet firm W. & J. Sloane.[1] Starting in 1964, it housed the Lycée Français de New York, along with its extensions in the neighboring Oliver Gould Jennings House.[2]

The mansion was in turn vacated by the school when it was sold and renovated to become a luxurious single-family home again.[3][4] The purchaser of the building was Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the (now former) Emir of Qatar, who bought the mansion and the neighboring Oliver Gould Jennings House around 2004.[5][6]

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References
  1. "Billionaire Alexander Rovt and historic mansion on Upper East Side". Big Apple Secrets. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  2. "Streetscapes/9 East 72nd Street; A School's Grand House That Could Be Private Again - New York Times". Nytimes.com. 2001-01-07. Retrieved 2013-11-08.
  3. Christopher Gray. "Stirrings of a Throwback Kind". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-11-08.
  4. "Corcoran, 9 East 72nd Street, Upper East Side Real Estate, Manhattan For Sale, Homes, Upper East Side Townhouse, Carrie Chiang, Sharon Baum". Corcoran.com. 2013-10-21. Retrieved 2013-11-08.
  5. "Renovated Mega-Mansion Ready to Rule the Upper East Side". Curbed. 21 July 2010. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
  6. "Qatar Is On an Upper East Side Townhouse Tear". The Observer. 3 February 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2016.

Further reading
  • Kathrens, Michael C. (2005). Great Houses of New York, 1880-1930. New York: Acanthus Press. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-926494-34-3.
  • Craven, Wayne (2008). Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-06754-5.

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