English: 5 East 66th Street was designed in French Renaissance style by Richard Howland Hunt in 1900 as the residence of William Jay Schieffelin, this mansion became in 1947 the home of the Lotos Club, founded in 1870 and devoted to literature and the arts. A Landmark of New York plaque was erected in 1960 by the New York Community Trust.
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