The Visiting List

Mr. John Innes Kane and his wife Annie C. Schermerhorn Kane of New York purchased the Bergner Cottage in early 1903. B eginning in early December 1903 and completed by the Fall of 1904, Kane replaced the previous cottage with one designed by Frederick Lincoln Savage. Kane first occupied "Breakwater" in the 1905 season, though until about September 1909, it is simply referred to as the "Kane Cottage" in local newspapers. Kane was gentleman and belonged to the Union Club, the Knickerbocker Club, the New York Yacht Club, the Metropolitan Club, the Whist Club, the St. Elmo's Club, the Society of the Cincinnati, the South Side Sportsmen's Club, and the Automobile Club of America. His w ife was a member of the Colony Club. The Kanes were counted as members of "the 400." The architect of "Breakwater", Fred L. Savage, was born and raised in Northeast Harbor, studied architecture in Boston with the firm of Peabody and Stearns and, in 1892, bega

About a mile from the village center of Bar Harbor, on the bay shore  is a cottage which commands a sightly view of Frenchman's Bay. Fashioned after the Chateau de Blois in France and modernized to meet the requirements of an American home stands The Turrets. The Turrets 1895 The Turrets 2022 Designed by Bruce Price, this cottage was built for John J. Emery and Lela Alexander Emery of New York.  Emery was a member of the Lawyers Club, Tuxedo Club, and Reform Club. The Turrets 1895 The Turrets 2022 Though designed by Price, John E. Clark deserves much credit for its construction. From the excavation of the stone ledge upon which the foundation rests, to the top of the chimneys, both interiorly and exteriorly, The Turrets grew under the trained eye of Clark.  Charles Candage had charge of the carpentry work and  Calvin H. Norris did the stonework. By the time work began in  October 1893,  the local newspaper estimated that the cottage construction would employ about 100 men for 2 yea

It took time for all of Fifth Avenue along Central Park to be developed and this block of Fifth Avenue was not developed until 1899 when four French Beaux-Arts houses at 1006, 1007, 1008, and 1009 Fifth Avenue were under construction. While 1006 Fifth Avenue was designed by Richard W. Buckley  and built for William H. and Katherine T. Gelshenen , the three houses at 1007, 1008, and 1009 Fifth Avenue were built as a group under the same building permit and were completed in 1901. Designed by the firm of Welch, Smith & Provot, they were constructed for William W. Hall and Thomas M. Hall, prominent New York City builders and developers.  The two houses at 1006 and 1007 Fifth Avenue were demolished in 1972 and the much-altered house at 1008 Fifth Avenue was demolished in February 1977. From Left to Right, 1009, 1008, 1007 and 1006 Fifth Avenue 1009 Fifth Avenue Today The surviving house at 1009 Fifth Avenue, like the others in the row built by Hall & Hall, was built on speculation.

To many New Yorkers living during the Gilded Age, Louis Sherry was synonymous with Delmonico's. In fact, Delmonico's was the one business which Louis Sherry himself was happy to consider a rivial.  In 1896 work began on a new building for Sherry and on October 8, 1898, he re-opened his business uptown in a predominantly residential neighborhood on the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and West 44th Street. Shortly thereafter Delmonico's would follow and would set themselves up across the street. Designed by McKim, Mead & White, the 11-story apartment building was the new home to Louis Sherry, which occupied the first three floors of the building. Built of a steel frame, the  façade  was made of cut limestone in the style of the  Renaissance .  Main Entrance on West 44th Street The special feature of Sherry's was a large ballroom, which with an accessory of halls and anterooms, occupied the entire third floor of the building, with the dancing space proper being 80 fee