Corporation Street, Birmingham, UK - view looking north-east, c. 1955 (by mikeyashworth)
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The William B. Astor House at 840 Fifth Avenue, c. 1900. It was designed by Richard Morris Hunt, a popular society architect who also designed The Breakers, Marble House, and several other Vanderbilt mansions. Construction started in 1893 and the mansion became the largest of its kind on Fifth Avenue. Its ballroom alone could hold 1,200 people and was frequently put to use. From the Vanderbilt Chateau at the corner of 52nd Street to the Carnegie Mansion at the corner of 91st, this section of Fifth Avenue was called "Millionaire's Row" for a reason.
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