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    The George F. Baker Jr. Houses are a complex of three residential buildings at 67, 69, and 75 East 93rd Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New...
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    Kennedy Jr. was born at Georgetown University Hospital on November 25, 1960, less than three weeks after his father, Massachusetts senator John F. Kennedy...
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    about the tunnels than I did". The Carlyle was the last place John F. Kennedy Jr. ate breakfast before departing on his ill-fated plane trip to Martha's...
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  • York in New York George F. Baker Jr. and Sr. Houses, New York, New York, listed on the NRHP in New York Sebastian Baker Stone House, Rochester, New York...
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    1963-1972 - Robert Lee Patterson, Jr. 1972-1990 - Philip D. Wilson Jr. 1990-1993 - Andrew J. Weiland 1993-2003 - Russell F. Warren 2003-2014 - Thomas P. Sculco...
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    trim, on the 76th Street side of the hospital, replacing two apartment houses and several workshops. In December 1931, Winston Churchill was hospitalized...
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    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (category Charles F. Kettering)
    some man.' Dr. Ewing is the Memorial Hospital". In 1934, John D. Rockefeller Jr. donated land on York Avenue for a new location. Two years later, he granted...
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  • prominent New Yorkers who were regular patrons there, including Nelson W. Aldrich Jr., Woody Allen, Noel Behn, Candace Bushnell, William J. Bratton, Paul Desmond...
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    Charles Rangel, every New York mayor and governor since Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr., and Governor Herbert H. Lehman. In October 2018 the Harmonie Club of...
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    (1836–1914), lawyer Robert Goelet (1841–1899), real estate developer George G. Haven, Jr. (1866–1925), businessman James A. Roosevelt (1825–1898), merchant...
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    specialties. George Carlin, comedian and writer Caroline Kennedy, U.S. ambassador to Australia and daughter of former U.S. president John F. Kennedy Sean...
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    minister George Phillips (1593–1644). Scion of the Boston Brahmin Phillips family, which counts among its notable members Samuel Phillips, Jr. (1752–1802)...
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    Baker Jr. (1878–1937), who married Edith Brevoort Kane. Their daughter Elizabeth married John M. Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and their son, George F....
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    The Stanley M. Isaacs Houses (or Isaacs Houses) is a public housing project for those of low-to-moderate incomes located just south of 96th Street in the...
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    Howard Henry Baker Jr. (November 15, 1925 – June 26, 2014) was an American politician, diplomat and photographer who served as a United States Senator...
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    them Otto H. Kahn, Finley J. Shepherd (who had married Helen Gould), Edward F. Hutton, Walter P. Chrysler, and Robert Livingston Gerry, Sr. (the son of...
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  • which housed it has since been demolished. Colony Club, a women only club near the Colony restaurant and frequented by many of the same people George Ross...
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    located at 1 East 65th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The Temple houses the Bernard Museum of Judaica, the congregation's collection of more than...
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    The George Blumenthal House was a mansion at 50 East 70th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was constructed for George Blumenthal...
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  • Lauder. Ruth du Pont Lord, 1939. Psychotherapist, arts patron. Author, Henry F. du Pont and Winterthur: A Daughter's Portrait. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1924...
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    New York City. 1040 is one of the tallest of the limestone-clad apartment houses on Fifth Avenue. The prominent 18-story structure has one of the most distinctive...
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    located in front of the house. Vicky Ward in 2003 described the house as "the crown jewel of the city's residential town houses...it sits on—or, rather...
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    before returning as the 16th White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. Born in Houston, Baker attended the Hill School and Princeton...
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    Named after the district superintendent of schools, Julia Richman, it houses six autonomous small schools for approximately 1,800 Pre-K through 12th...
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  • psychologists include Jack Barchas, Robert Michels, Otto F. Kernberg, James Kocsis, George Makari, Michael Posner, William Breitbart, and Theodore Shapiro...
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    residents included former Kentucky governor John Y. Brown Jr. and his wife Phyllis George, as well as Dick Clark and Martina Navratilova. At the time...
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    high. It was designed by architect Lafayette A. Goldstone, with F. Burrall Hoffman, Jr. Past tenants included Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr. (the founder...
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    Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr. The house took up 250 feet on 77th Street and 77 feet on Fifth Avenue, more than...
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    1926. The house was originally built as a double mansion for Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, the widow of real estate heir William Backhouse Astor Jr., and her...
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    the club. Other early Club officers included Vice President F.A. Schwab, Secretary George Hows, and Treasurer Albert Weber. New York Tribune editor Whitelaw...
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