(OGDEN CODMAN, JR.) Album containing 41 photographs depicting the construction of Ernesto G. Fabbri's residence at 7 East 96 Street, which is now the site of the Manhattan Day School, designed by the prominent architect Ogden Codman, Jr. Silver

(OGDEN CODMAN, JR.) Album containing 41 photographs depicting the construction of Ernesto G. Fabbri's residence at 7 East 96 Street, which is now the site of the Manhattan Day School, designed by the prominent architect Ogden Codman, Jr. Silver prints, 1912. 2.75 x 5 and 3x4 inches, many with handwritten dates, in pencil, on margin of recto. Oblong 8vo, leatherette, backstrip cracked. E700/1,000 An albumchronicling the construction of one of the first New York City landmarks erected in the Carnegie Hill Section of Manhattan, a projectundertaken from August 14, 1912 to December 3, 1912. A newspaper clipping in the album states that the building was slated to be "One of the handsomest private dwellings of Fifth Avenue," and that "with the opening of the Lexington Avenue subway this property will be about twenty minutes from Wall St."