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| | The Upper East Side Book: Fifth Avenue: Commonwealth Fund Building at 1 East 75th Street (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | When the 1910 census enumerator came to the Harkness House, the family was not in residence; however, there were eight servants living here, all of whom were Swedish. |
 | | Although Edward Harkness was involved in railroad financing and served as a director of several railroad companies, his primary interest was the distribution of his vast inherited wealth; he inherited so much money in 1926 he paid the sixth largest income tax in the country - $1,531,708! |
 | | Harkness apparently established an excellent rapport with architect James Gamble Rogers during the design and construction of this house, since Rogers became the architect of many of the buildings financed by Harkness, including Butler Library at Columbia University, the original buildings of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, and the Harkness Memorial Quadrangle and Tower at Yale." |
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