Unlike its few peers at the top of the residential ladder, this one has managed to maintain quite a low profile over the years at least as measured by celebrity-watchers.

Palatial and finely detailed, this 14-story building has only 16 apartments and a great location across from Central Park, close to midtown and on a quiet street.

It was designed in very dignified, Italian Renaissance-palazzo style by George B. Post & Sons in a style very complimentary to the similar but substantially larger apartment across the street at 820 Fifth Avenue, one of the city’s most prestigious addresses, designed by Starrett & Van Vleck. Both buildings were erected in 1916. Unlike 820 Fifth Avenue, this building has replaced its multi-paned windows with large picture windows, which makes for more dramatic views but at the same time detracts from its fine architecture.

This building was converted to a condominium in 1974. It replaced two townhouses, one of which was designed by R. H. Robertson in 1885 for Charles T. Barney.