The Ogden Mills House was designed by famed architect Richard Morris Hunt and overlooked Central Park.

[1][2] It was located across the street from both the E. H. Harriman town house and 1 East 70th Street, a mansion constructed in 1912–1914 by Thomas Hastings of Carrère and Hastings, which today houses the Frick Collection of Carnegie Steel Company chairman Henry Clay Frick.

[3] Unlike Hunt's 1886 project, built in the Châteauesque style and known as the Petit Chateau for William K. Vanderbilt,[4] the Ogden Mills House was much more restrained in its style.

[5] After Mills' death in 1929, the home was left to his son, U.S. Treasury Secretary and U.S. Representative Ogden Livingston Mills, who died at the residence on October 11, 1937.

[6] The house was torn down in the late 1930s and an apartment building was erected in its place.