This this photograph is an image of the drawing room at Number 17 Beekman Place. The carpet is cream-colored, Louis XVI fauteuils are recovered in blue damask and Katherine Blake's Boldini portrait is center stage. The small oil study nearby is by Ellin Berlin's uncle, Walter Gay.
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By 1946 the Berlins and there three daughters moved into a dignified Georgian Revival house. Number 17 Beekman Place, had been designed by Fredrick Sterner and built for James V. Forrestal, a Wall Street banker, in 1932. For this drawing room the carpet is cream-colored, Louis XVI fauteuils are recovered in blue damask and Katherine Blake's Boldini portrait is center stage. The small oil study nearby is by Ellin Berlin's uncle, Walter Gay
See Harbor Hill, Clarence Hungerford Mackay's Mansion.
