Nathaniel L. McCready House

[1] The McCreadies purchased two plots on 75th Street in 1894, and commissioned Trowbridge, Colt & Livingston to design a 50-foot (15 m)-wide French Renaissance-inspired mansion.

The building's limestone facade a second-story iron balcony are characteristic of many houses constructed on the same block in following decades.

[3] During his residence there, Watson used the house to entertain heads of state from the United Kingdom, Greece, Brazil, and Uruguay.

[5] After the housing market crash, Flowers sold the property in 2011 for $36 million to Larry Gagosian.

[6] Gagosian, an art dealer, began a four-year gut renovation led by architect Annabelle Selldorf, demolishing the entire structure except for the limestone facade.