Fifth Avenue from Start to Finish - 1911: Lenox Library, East 71st Street
Wide-angled photo showing buildings on the east side of Fifth Avenue, in front of Central Park. No. 874 Mrs. C.F. Stickney - Mrs Harriman - Mrs. Adolph Lewisohn - No. 883 Mrs. John Sloane - Lenox Library, East 70th St. East 71st Street is about the middle.
Lenox Library (on the right) was founded in 1870 by James Lenox. It had an impressive collection of bibles, including the first Gutenberg Bible to enter The United States. The building, completed in 1877, was destructed in 1912. The Richard Morris Hunt Memorial is in front of Lenox Library, Central Park side.
Photograph published by Welles & Co. NY, 1911, part of the series 5th Avenue New York from Start to Finish. Source: New York Public Library.
62 - Fifth Avenue and East 65th Street.
67 - Fifth Avenue and East 75th Street - 1911.
64 - Fifth Avenue and East 69th Street - 1911.
63 - Fifth Avenue and East 67th Street.
70 - Metropolitan Museum of Art - 1911.
66 - Fifth Avenue and East 73rd Street.
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