When the Windermere at the corner of W57th Street and 9th Avenue was built in 1881, it was only the second large apartment building to be built in Manhattan. It was a home for the upper-middle class who craved this sort of high-rise luxury building, cost $350,000 to build and had 39 apartments (typically with five or six bedrooms). The building also offered elevators and telephones (which had only arrived in the city two years before).
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