Fifth Avenue and West 39th Street. Drawing of the John D. Wendel Home, Fifth Avenue and 39th Street - northwest corner. Wendel home built: 1856; razed: 1934. The house remained in the Wendel family for 3 generations. When the final heir died in 1931 she left the house to Drew University. The school leased the site to the S.H. Kress store chain which built its flagship on the site in 1935.
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Local Subjects
Wendel, John D. -- Homes and haunts
Architecture, Domestic
Fifth Avenue (New York, N.Y.)
Horse-drawn vehicles
Street life
Mansions
Murray Hill Neighborhood (New York, N.Y.)
Note
1856
1934
Digitized by Mina Rees Library; City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center.