The George J. Gould House was a mansion at 857 Fifth Avenue on the northeast corner of 67th Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

History

The home was designed in the French Beaux-Arts style by architect Horace Trumbauer of Philadelphia and constructed in 1906 for financier George Jay Gould, the eldest son of railroad magnate Jay Gould. It replaced the Neo-Gothic style Jay Gould House, which was demolished. The new house was designed both to complement and outshine the Isaac Stern House next door, at 858 Fifth Avenue.

George J. Gould House

In 1923, the house was bought by Harry Payne Whitney, and in late 1925, it became the residence of his mother-in-law, Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt. After her death in 1934, it was inherited by her youngest child Gladys, Countess Széchenyi.

George J. Gould House

The site is now occupied by a white brick building completed in 1963, which contains 17 apartments.

George J. Gould House

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Fifth Avenue

Gould family residences

Vanderbilt family residences

Upper East Side

1906 establishments in New York City

Houses completed in 1906

Demolished buildings and structures in Manhattan

Gilded Age mansions