Title
John D. Wendel Home and Barn, 1932.
Description
Fifth Avenue and West 39th Street. John D. Wendel Home and Barn, Fifth Avenue and 39th Street - northwest corner. 1932. 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. The brick wall behind the Wendel's barn features a prominent advertisement reading: If you are not slender make Lane Bryant your fashion counselor.
Date Created
1932
Type of Resource
Photograph
Additional Information
General note:
1856
1934
Digitized by Mina Rees Library; City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center.
Extent:
1 photographic reproduction ; 16.7 x 10.1 cm.- Wendel, John D. -- Homes and haunts
- Architecture, Domestic
- Fifth Avenue (New York, N.Y.)
- Advertising
- Street life
- Mansions
- Barns
- Bricks
- Brownstone (Material)
- Murray Hill Neighborhood (New York, N.Y.)
