1938

Manhattan: 78th Street (East) - [5th Avenue.]

James B. Duke Town House 1 East 78th Street, Manhattan Federal Art Project "Changing New York" Berenice Abbott, photographer [Note: negative at Museum of the City of New York] Code I A-4 Jan. 20, 1938 ... showing the Duke home, present proprietor being the wife (Doris Duke) of the U.S. Minister to Canada, James H.R. Cromwell. The latter performed his last official act there on May 17, 1940, to run for the New Jersey seat in the U.S. Senate.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection