26 East 37th Street
Manhattan, New York City
Built in 1907, for Francis Randall Appleton (1854-1929) and his wife, Fanny Lanier (1864-1958). Seen here on the far left, it was built by the Appletons on land in Murray Hill on the east side of Madison Avenue that had belonged to Mrs Appleton's father, Charles D. Lanier. Standing 4-stories over a basement, it had a frontage of 38-feet along 37th Street and a depth of 100-feet. The Appletons lived between here and Appleton Farms in Ipswich, Massachusetts, which had been in their family for 270-years...
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The Appletons entertained the leading names in New York society as members of Mrs Astor's social elite known as "The Four Hundred". Standing behind J.P. Morgan's Art Gallery, in 1926, Morgan bought No.'s 26, 28 & 30 from the Lanier estate for $275,000 in a move to protect its immediate vicinity from development. The Appleton's son, Francis R. Appleton Jr., acted as attorney for the Lanier estate and the purchase completed Morgan's possession of the whole city block on which stood both his house and his gallery.
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Contributed by Mark Meredith on 20/06/2021 and last updated on 20/06/2021.
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