Elias Brevoort (1802-1842)

He is credited as being the first New Yorker to build a mansion on Fifth Avenue, at the corner of 9th Street, next to the more modest home of his cousin, James Renwick. At the time, no-one of importance deemed it necessary to build a home anywhere north of Washington Square and in jest those New Yorkers referred to Brevoort and his neighbors as "Fifth Avenoodles". He had a summer home at Fishkill, Dutchess Co., and was the father of the famous Hudson River School artist, James Renwick Brevoort.