page_title: Anne Harriman Vanderbilt
section_title: Residences
hierarchical_section_title: Anne Harriman Vanderbilt / Society life / Residences
caption_attribution_description: English: Image originally published in Queer Places: Retracing the Steps of LGBTQ people around the World Authored by Elisa Rolle
context_page_description: Anne Harriman Sands Rutherfurd Vanderbilt was an American heiress known for her marriages to prominent men and her role in the development of the Sutton Place neighborhood as a fashionable place to live.
context_section_description: In 1921, she also sold their country home, "Stepping Stones", in Wheatley Hills in Jericho on Long Island for $500,000 to Ormond Gerald Smith.  The estate was around 125 acres and had a home commissioned by her late husband and designed by John R. Hill.
  In 1921, Anne then purchased the former home of Effingham B. Sutton, at 1 Sutton Place, for $50,000 in the then-new neighborhood of Sutton Place, also in Manhattan.  Before her move, along with Elizabeth Marbury, Anne Morgan, her sister, Emeline Harriman Olin, second wife of Stephen Henry Olin, the neighborhood was known as a squalid place.  Vanderbilt, Marbury, and Morgan each hired Mott B. Schmidt (1889–1977), an American architect best known for his buildings in the American Georgian Classical style, to build, or in Vanderbilt's case, renovate homes in the neighborhood.  The society pages of The New York Times scoffed at their relocation and referred to the areas as an "Amazon Enclave."
  Mott transformed the home into a thirteen-room townhouse with terraced gardens that overlooked the East River.  The cost of the home renovation was approximately $75,000 in 1921.  Vanderbilt had Elsie de Wolfe design the interiors.  The terrace, done by Renee Prahar, featured two center pillars with ornamental monkeys holding globes of light in their hands.  By January 1929, The Times changed their tune and wrote:
  Five years ago, when Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt established her residence in Sutton Place overlooking the East River, it was little dreamed that within so short a time such a marked migration from mid-Manhattan to the East River district would occur as is now in full swing. In the unbroken line of new apartments, lining Fifty-seventh Street almost solidly from Second Avenue to Sutton Place, those who doubted the wisdom of Mrs. Vanderbilt's move have found a convincing answer to their conjectures as to the ultimate success of the Sutton Place movement.
caption: 1 Sutton Place North
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