t is
popularly known as the "Millionaires Apartments"--Mrs. Henry G.
Timmerman (1007), Angier B. Duke (1009), J. Francis A. Clark (1013),
Senator George B. Peabody Wetmore (1015), Mrs. W.M. Kingland (1026),
and George Crawford Clark (1027).

This part of the Avenue faces the Obelisk, Cleopatra's Needle, a present
to the United States from the Khedive of Egypt, brought to this country
in 1877, and erected here in 1880; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
the latter on the site of what was once the Deer Park. The Museum had
its origin in a meeting of the art committee of the Union League Club in
November, 1869. Among the founders were William Cullen Bryant, president
of the Century Association, Daniel Huntington, president of the National
Academy of Design, Dr. Barnard, president of Columbia, Richard M. Hunt,
president of the New York chapter of the American Institute of
Architects, and Dr. Henry W. Bellows. Andrew H. Green, the "Father of
Greater New York," who was one of those representing the city, was the
first to suggest placing the Museum in the Park. For a time the
collection was kept in a house rented for the purpose in West Fourteenth
Street. The first wing of the present building was opened in 1880.

To continue the list of the private residences of the Avenue. Jonathan
Thorne (1028), Louis Gordon Hammersley (1030), Countess Annie Leary
(1032), George C. Smith (1033), Herbert D. Robbins (1034), James B.
Clews (1039), Lloyd Warren (1041), Mrs. James Hedges (1044), R.F.
Hopkins (1045), Michael Dricer (1046), George Leary (1053), William H.
Erhart (1055), James Speyer (1058), Henry Phipps (1063), Abraham Stein
(1068), Dr. James H. Lancashire (1069), Mrs. Herbert T. Parsons (1071),
W.W. Fuller (1072), J.H. Hanan (1073), Benjamin Duke (1076), Malcolm D.
Whitman (1080), McLane Van Ingen (1081), A.M. Huntington (1083).

In the block between Ninetieth and Ninety-first Streets, on land where
once the squatter gloried, is the home of the Iron Master, perhaps of
all the residences in the long line of the Avenue the one most observed
by the stranger within our gates. "So well have the architect and the
landscape gardener co-operated," is the comment of "Fifth Avenue," "that
this mansion and its surroundings have already the dignity and
picturesqueness which age alone can give, although the building is of
comparatively recent date. It is the only house on all Fifth Avenue
which looks as if it might have been transplanted f