10 West 56th Street (originally the Frederick C. and Birdsall Otis Edey Residence) is a commercial building in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.

The six-story building was designed by Warren and Wetmore in the French Renaissance Revival style.

The Edeys occupied the house until 1919, when the Frangold Realty Company bought it and added a sixth story.

[4][7] The block of 56th Street from Fifth to Sixth Avenue contained rowhouses by 1871, many of which were recessed from the lot line and had entrance stoops.

[12] The facade is divided horizontally into three sections, with the middle stories being emphasized, a common trait in French Renaissance Revival structures.

The ground story contains a recessed rectangular storefront with a center glass door and two metal-framed windows alongside it.

[12] Originally, the ground story contained two bulls-eye windows, one on each side of the main entrance.

The second story has a balustrade, as well as a Palladian window, which is composed of three panes separated by two engaged columns.

The center pane of the Palladian window is a round-arched opening with an ornate scrolled cartouche and keystone above it.

A molded sill course and a cornice with modillions runs above the entire third floor, interrupting the pilasters.

The west facade is clad with brick and has limestone quoins at the northern corner of the wall.

The first and second floors, which face 12 West 56th Street, are subject to a party wall agreement and lack windows.

[21] When the house was bought in 1992 by Japanese mail-order company Felissimo, the interior was arranged according to feng shui principles.

[24] Birdsall was a socialite who held numerous leadership positions in the Girl Scouts of the USA, various women's suffrage agencies, and poetry associations.

On the remainder of the site, he planned to build a 38-foot-wide (12 m) residence, with a gap between his house and the lot he had just sold.

Hollins hired McKim, Mead & White to design his house, but an 1881 covenant prevented Edey from building a structure out to the lot line until 1901.

Over the next decade, the Edey and Hollins families did not host any events together, and neither The Brooklyn Daily Eagle nor The New York Times made any mention of the two houses as a pair.

[16] According to a 1905 census conducted by the New York state government, the Edey family lived in the house with ten servants.

[33] While the Edeys were at their Bellport estate in 1912, the house experienced an unusual burglary in which the thief locked a servant in a closet and took only the key to the door.

[35] Birdsall Otis Edey ultimately sold the house in late 1919[36][37] to the Frangold Realty Company.

[39][40][41][b] The store opened two months later with a showcase of "coats, street dress, evening gowns and millinery", according to The New York Times.

[12] The building was leased to Boue Soeurs, a gown and lingerie shop, in 1937 for twenty-one years.

[44] Two years afterward, Boue Soeurs moved to a building adjacent to the Tiffany & Co. flagship store on nearby 57th Street.

[53] The actress Elizabeth Taylor, who had been married to Mike Todd,[54][55] lived in the house for two to three years in the mid-1950s.