Fifth Avenue and Vanderbilt House - between 1907 and 1910
View of Fifth Avenue, looking north, Vanderbilt House (center), Plaza Hotel, and the Scholar's Gate entrance to Central Park, in the distance. In the Gilded Years of the late nineteenth century many families of great fortune built big and richly decorated mansions on Fifth Avenue.
Photo by Detroit Publishing Company, taken between 1907 (when Plaza Hotel was Completed) and 1910.
Enlargement of the street scene on 5th Avenue.
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Fifth Avenue and Vanderbilt House - between 1907 and 1910