Payne Whitney House
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The Payne Whitney House is a historic building at 972 Fifth Avenue, south of 79th Street, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was designed in the High Italian Renaissance style by
The house as seen in 2010
Detail of doorway
Room in the French Embassy Cultural Center
Seen in April 2021 with scaffolding outside it
Whitney family
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The Whitney family is a prominent American family descended from English emigrant John Whitney, who left London in 1635 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts. The historic family mansion in Watertow
Payne Whitney House
…figures. William Payne Whitney and Helen Hay married in February 1902. The groom was the son of William Collins Whitney and Flora Payne, of the prominent Whitney family. The bride's father was John Milton Hay, who was the United States Secretary of State at the time. Media at the time reported that William's uncle…
Eli Whitney Jr. (1765–1825), inventor of the cotton gin
Asa Whitney (1797–1872), a wealthy merchant as well as one of the first proponents of a U.S. transcontinental railroad.
William Collins Whitney
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney