Payne Whitney House
The Payne Whitney House is a historic building at 972 Fifth Avenue, south of 79th Street, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was designed in the High Italian Renaissance style by architect Stanford White of the firm McKim, Mead & White.Photo: Gryffindor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Manor estate
- Description: mansion in Manhattan, New York
- Also known as: “972 Fifth Avenue” and “972 5th Avenue”
- Address: 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10075
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Central Park and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Central Park
Photo: Ed Yourdon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
A vast green swath of open space in the heart of Manhattan, Central Park is a district in its own right, neatly separating the Upper East Side from the Upper West Side, stretching from Midtown at the southern end to Harlem at the north.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Museum
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is situated 2,700 feet northeast of Payne Whitney House.
American Museum of Natural History
Museum
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The American Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 21 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library. American Museum of Natural History is situated 3,400 feet northwest of Payne Whitney House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Upper East Side and Lenox Hill.
Upper East Side
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The Upper East Side of Manhattan is one of the city's wealthiest districts. Spanning the stretch of island between 59th Street to 96th Street east of Central Park, the neighborhoods of Lenox Hill, Yorkville, and Carnegie Hill are full of luxurious townhouses and apartment buildings on some of the most affluent addresses in New York.
Lenox Hill
Neighborhood
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Lenox Hill is a neighborhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It forms the lower section of the Upper East Side, east of Park Avenue in the 60s and 70s.
Upper West Side
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The Upper West Side covers a large area in upper Manhattan bounded by 59th Street on the south, 125th Street on the north, the Hudson River on the west, and Central Park and Morningside Park on the east.
Payne Whitney House
- Categories: house, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.77656° or 40° 46′ 36″ northLongitude
-73.96365° or 73° 57′ 49″ westHeight
90 feet (28 metres)Open location code
87G8Q2GP+JGOpenStreetMap ID
way 266899031OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=manorWikidata ID
Q7156837
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In Other Languages
“Payne Whitney House” goes by many names.
- French: “Payne Whitney House”
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