weep of the houses of the Vanderbilts, and the residence of Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler (673), Samuel Untermeyer (675), F. Lewisohn (683), H.
McK. Twombly (684), William Rockefeller (689), Mrs. M.H. Dodge (691), W.
Kirkpatrick Brice (693), Mrs. Benjamin B. Brewster (695), Adrian Iselin,
Jr. (711), Mrs. N.W. Aldrich (721), John Markle (723), Mrs. Lewis T.
Hoyt (726), H.E. Huntington (735), Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs (739), Joseph
Guggenheim (741), and William E. Iselin (745).

Of this land the stretch from Forty-fifth Street to Forty-eighth on the
east side of the Avenue was a part of the fifty-five-acre estate bought
by Thomas Buchanan between 1803 and 1807 from the city, which was then
disposing of its common land, for the sum of seven thousand five hundred
and thirty-seven dollars. One hundred and eight years later "Fifth
Avenue" appraised its value at twenty million dollars. For his
country-seat Buchanan purchased a tract of ground along the East River
front between Fifty-fourth and Fifty-seventh Streets. Buchanan died in
1815. A daughter, Almy, married Peter Goelet, and another daughter,
Margaret, married Robert Ratzer Goelet, which accounts for the large
Goelet holdings in this section.

In this stretch of the Avenue and in the adjacent streets is the heart
of the new Clubland. The Century in Forty-third and the St. Nicholas in
Forty-fourth have been mentioned. At No. 10 West Forty-third Street is
the home of the Columbia University Club. In Forty-fourth Street are the
City Club (55 W.), the New York Yacht (37 W.), and the Harvard (27 W.).
Until a few years ago the Yale Club was diagonally across the street
from the Harvard Club, but now the alumni of "Old Eli" have a superb
club-house of their own on Vanderbilt Avenue between Forty-fourth and
Forty-fifth Streets, which they are occupying jointly with the alumni of
Princeton for the duration of the war. Farther up the Avenue, on the
northeast corner of Fifty-first Street, is the Union Club, which moved
there after relinquishing the house it held so long at the corner of
Twenty-first Street. Then, at the north-west corner of Fifty-fourth
Street, is the University Club, to the mind of Mr. Arnold Bennett, the
finest of all the fine buildings that line the Avenue. "The residential
blocks to the north of Fifty-ninth Street," he wrote in the book that on
this side of the North Atlantic was known as "Your United States," "fall
short of their pretensions in beauty and interest. Bu