| Oliver Gould Jennings House | |
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 The main facade on 72nd Street | |
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| Alternative names | 7 East 72nd Street |
| General information | |
| Type | Mansion |
| Architectural style | Beaux-Arts |
| Address | 7 East 72nd Street |
| Town or city | New York, NY 10021 |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 40°46′20″N 73°57′58″W / 40.77222°N 73.96611°W |
| Construction started | 1898 |
| Completed | 1899 |
| Client | Henry T. Sloane |
| Owner | Government of Qatar |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 4 |
| Floor area | 45,000 square feet (4,200 m2) (with 9 East 72nd Street) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Ernest Flagg and Walter B. Chambers |
The Oliver Gould Jennings House is a mansion at 7 East 72nd Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is along 72nd Street's northern sidewalk between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue. The four-story building was designed by Ernest Flagg and Walter B. Chambers and was built in 1898. The house, along with the neighboring structure at 9 East 72nd Street, has been owned since 2002 by the government of Qatar, which has combined the two buildings into a single residence.
The facade is divided vertically into two bays and is made of rusticated blocks of limestone, rising four stories from the street. It includes an arched entrance at the first story, French windows opening onto a balcony at the second story, and a mansard roof on the fourth story. The house originally spanned 18,256 square feet (1,696.0 m2), with interiors designed in a variety of styles. The interior spaces included a ground-floor dining room and reception room; a second-floor library and drawing room; and bedrooms on the upper stories. After 7 and 9 East 72nd Street were combined, the residence included a swimming pool and a roof terrace.
The house was constructed for Oliver Gould Jennings between 1898 and 1899. Jennings lived there until 1914, when it was resold several times. It was used as a temporary location of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from 1956 to 1959. In 1960, it became part of the Lycée Français de New York, which also came to occupy 9 East 72nd Street. The house became a New York City designated landmark in 1977. The school vacated 7 and 9 East 72nd Street in 2002, when they were sold to Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar. After the Qatari government finished renovating and combining the buildings in 2010, the two structures comprised New York City's largest single-family residence.