"In 1925 when George Fuller Construction Company decided to develop a 14-story apartment house on 5th Ave. erecting this new building wasn’t going to be easy, and before moving ahead, Fuller had to convince cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post Hutton to give up her home known as the Burden mansion that stood on the site.  She agreed, but only if Fuller virtually recreated much of her 54-room mansion on the building’s top three floors plus a for-her-use-only porte-cochere on the side street that would lead to her private, and rather showy, lobby staffed with a doorman and concierge. Mrs. Hutton wanted to preserve the privacy she was currently maintaining with her existing mansion. Her new residence became the first and largest penthouse in NYC."

Today, after converting several doctor offices we renovated this section of the building into my client's guest residence for her family and friends.  The fireplace mantel was salvaged from the original building's interiors.  Our client's private residence in the same building is several floors above.