550 Park Avenue is a luxury apartment building on

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on the

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, United States. 550 Park Avenue was designed by J.E.R. Carpenter. The 17-floor building was completed on December 11, 1917 and converted to a cooperative in 1952 with only 32 apartments. It is adjacent to the

Browning School The Browning School is a college preparatory school for boys located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Founded in 1888 by John A. Browning, the school is a member of the New York Interschool. History The school was founded in 1888 by John A ...

Notable residents

Notable residents have included: *

Kathryn Bache Miller Kathryn Bache Miller (April 19, 1896 – October 15, 1979) was an American art collector and philanthropist. Early life Bache was born in 1896, she was the daughter of investment banker Jules S. Bache and Florence Rosalie Scheftel (1869–1 ...

, philanthropist * August Belmont Jr., financier * J.E.R Carpenter, architect of the building * Samuel D. Leidesdorf, accountant *

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, author, journalist, and philanthropist * Hulda Lashanska, soprano singer *

Diana Vreeland Diana Vreeland (September 29, 1903 – August 22, 1989) was an American fashion columnist and editor. She worked for the fashion magazine ''Harper's Bazaar'' and as editor-in-chief at '' Vogue'', later becoming a special consultant to the Costume ...

, fashion columnist and editor

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