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treasury secretary, spent decades there, and Fort Worth art collector Anne Bass stayed nearly 40 years. Sunny and Claus von Bülow kept an apartment, too. Dallas designer Cathy Kincaid was handed a piece of that history when a Dallas couple, longtime clients, bought a residence overlooking Central Park. It began as a happy accident. In the pandemic summer of 2020, the couple traveled to New York to help their eldest daughter find an apartment. With real estate prices softening, the wife suggested they also scout for a pied-à-terre of their own. Her one must-have was a building with its own restaurant, a rarity in Manhattan. The third apartment they saw was the one: a residence in one of the city's most prestigious prewar buildings, with a stunning view of the park. "It On the Upper East Side, an address is a résumé. At 960 Fifth Avenue, old money and good taste have shared a roof for nearly a century. Designed in 1928 by architect Rosario Candela and Warren & Wetmore, its sweeping layouts, soaring ceilings, and oak-paneled rooms dazzle behind a classical limestone façade. Storied from the start, the building has a design pedigree to match. Dorothy Draper, then early in her career, consulted on the project, and patrician decorator Sister Parish later lived there. Society and power followed. Banking heir C. Douglas Dillon, Kennedy's

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