Marta Raymond

Great Houses of New York: River House, the Best Address, Part I

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Akron, Great Depression, Charles Adams Platt, Perkins Family, East River, New York, Mrs. James K. Smith, Ohio, Noel Coward, Marta Raymond, William Lawrence Bottomley, Foreclosure, Harlem River Houses, George Perkins Raymond, Laura Schellschmidt, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

How did I, an unknown from the provinces, black and gay, first find myself at lofty River House facing the East River?

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Great Houses of New York: River House, the Best Address, Part IV

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gloria Vanderbilt, Bobby Short, Marta Raymond, Anderson Cooper, Jeanette Dempsey, Adele Astaire, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Worldcom, Carol Marcus, John Gutfreund, Corcoran Group, Fritz Kritzler, Gordon Parks, Hubert De Givenchy, Huntington Hartford, William Saroyan, Robert Bradford, The Great Depression, Francesco Galesi, Maureen Orth, Salomon Brothers, Butterfield Eight, The Stork Club, Ellen Kourtides, Susan Gutfreund, Joshua Logan, Robert Postel, Henry Luce, The Dakota, Marshall Field, Evelyn De Rothschild, World War II, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

As late as 1970 no apartment sale in New York had ever exceeded $1,000,000. At today's River House, indeed, there is none for less.

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Great Houses of New York: River House, the Best Address, Part II

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fdr Drive, Uneeda Biscuit, William Pahlmann, William Lawrence Bottomley, Marta Raymond, Akron Ohio, Lord & Taylor, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Maurice Fatio, Mrs. Diego De Suarez, Audrey James Coats, River Club, Sidney Wagner, Walter Hoving, Making the Mummies Dance, Harold S. Vanderbilt, The National Cash Register Co., Marty Richards, Jr., Tom Hoving, Artful Tom, George Perkins Raymond, Harry Cushing, Joseph Mullen, Etienne Drian, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitneys, Walter and Pauline Hoving, Tiffany & Co, Mr. And Mrs. William Robertson Coe, Marshall Field III, River House, Ruth Baker Pratt, Frederick W. Patterson, King Edward VII, David Adler, William Rheinlander Stewart, Columbia, Eleanor McMillen Brown, Claude Monet, Mary Lea Johnson Richards, Clare Booth and Henry Luce, James A. Burden, Susan Hume Fraszer, Bonwitttelle, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

Another trip to the fabulous River House overlooking the East River.

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