Charles K. Eagle, who moved to the property in October 1923 from the Rodin Studios diagonally across Seventh Avenue and 57th Street, built himself a 5,573-square-foot penthouse apartment, with a 1,847-square-foot terrace that wraps around the southwestern corner of the building.
During its construction in 1921, and at a cost of $8,000, Eagle had extra steel beams included in the terrace's construction to support extensive garden plantings. "My wife and I have always lov…

Briarcliff Manor is a suburban village in Westchester County, New York, 30 miles (50 km) north of New York City. It is on 5.9 square miles (15 km ) of land on the east bank of the Hudson River, geographically shared by the towns of Mount Pleasant and Ossining. Briarcliff Manor includes the communities of Scarborough and Chilmark, and is served by the Scarborough station of the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line. A section of the village, including buildings and homes covering 3…