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The One Percent: 1910

        Steel magnate Charles Schwab's 75-room, $6 million beaux-arts chateau on the Upper West Side, completed in 1906, was razed in 1948 and replaced by an apartment building.
New York circa 1910. "C.M. Schwab residence 'Riverside'." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

        Steel magnate Charles Schwab's 75-room, $6 million beaux-arts chateau on the Upper West Side, completed in 1906, was razed in 1948 and replaced by an apartment building.

New York circa 1910. "C.M. Schwab residence 'Riverside'." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

 

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