The Stanhope

1926 apartment hotel, converted 2007, 26 residences across 17 floors.

995 Fifth Avenue, 10028

995 Fifth Avenue was designed by Rosario Candela and built in 1926 as the Stanhope, an apartment hotel, seventeen storeys of brown brick over a limestone base facing the Metropolitan Museum at 81st Street. CetraRuddy and John Simpson converted it to 26 residences in 2007.

Most of the apartments now run to more than four thousand square feet, which means the conversion combined hotel floors rather than subdividing them. That is the opposite of what usually happens in a hotel conversion and it produces large plans with the riser and corridor positions of a much finer grain still embedded in them.

Candela designed it, and the building carries his habits at the elevation: a masonry wall with punched openings, solid between windows, with the brick above a stone base. Those openings are fixed and the wall between them will take fixings.

The corner position gives apartments two exposures, one to Fifth Avenue and the museum and one to 81st Street.

Within walking distance

Building facts

New York City Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output, version 26v1. Tax lot 1014920069.