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__notoc__The Benjamin N. and Sarah Duke House, also called the Duke–Semans Mansion, the Benjamin N. and Sarah Duke House, or by its street address, is a landmarked mansion located at 1009 Fifth Avenue at East 82nd Street in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1899-1901 and was designed by the firm of Welch, Smith & Provot in the Beaux-Arts style.The house was built speculatively by developers W. W. and T. M. Hall, and not for a specific owner, but shortly after it was completed it was bought by Benjamin N. Duke, a tobacco, textile and energy industrialist and philanthropist, who was at that time chairman of the American Tobacco Company. Benjamin's brother, James, another tobacco entrepreneur, bought the house in 1907. He lived there until his own mansion at 1 East 78th Street - now landmarked as the James B. Duke House - was completed in 1912.After James Duke relocated, the mansion became the residence of Angier Buchanan Duke, James Duke's son, until 1919, when his sister, Mary Lillian Duke married A. J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., and the couple moved in. Later their daughter, Mary Semans, took over residence. Members of the Duke family owned the mansion until 2006, when it was sold for US$40 million to American real estate mogul Tamir Sapir. The Mexican telecom magnate, Carlos Slim, at the time the richest person in the world, bought the mansion four years later in 2010 for US$44 million. Slim has said in an interview with CNBC that he is planning on using the house as a place to stay when he is in New York for business meetings. In May 2015, he put the mansion up for sale at $80 million, nearly twice the amount he paid for it.
For over 40 years, Adelson Galleries has handled some of the finest American paintings to come to market, placing works in major private collections as well as leading public institutions. Distinguished for its expertise in the fields of American Impressionism, Realism and Modernism, the gallery was founded in 1964 by Warren Adelson in Boston, and is located today on New York's Upper East Side. In addition to sponsoring both the John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassatt catalogue raisonné projects, the gallery regularly handles works by leading 19th- and 20th-century American artists, including George Bellows, Frank Benson, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Thomas Eakins, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Eastman Johnson, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, Edmund Tarbell, Andrew and Jamie Wyeth, among others. The gallery also exhibits works by selected contemporary artists. Recent Adelson Galleries exhibitions have included Andrew Wyeth: Helga on Paper; Sargent's Venice; Frederic Edwin Church: Romantic Landscapes and Seascapes; Jamie Wyeth: Seven Deadly Sins and Recent Work; and Mary Cassatt: Prints and Drawings from the Collection of Ambroise Vollard.