1935: The Peacock That Caused a Standoff at the Plaza Hotel » Vanderbilt
Before Edwin Goodman and Herman Bergdorf moved their department store to the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street in 1928, the site was occupied by the huge Cornelius Vanderbilt II mansion, designed in 1893 by George B. Post and his teacher, Richard Morris Hunt.
Cornelius Vanderbilt II mansion
