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No. 118 East 83rd Street is an approximately 115-year-old 3-story garage/dwelling situated in the Yorkville section of the Upper East Side of New York City. The property upon which the garage would be constructed was sold by Charles Gulden, of Gulden’s Mustard, to Stuart Duncan, of John Duncan & Sons, (which would eventually become Lea & Perrins). Both men were, of course, fabulously rich, and Duncan lived in a mansion at No. 3 East 75th Street—just across the street from Central Park—so the garage would not become an investment property for Duncan, rather it was for his automobiles. In 1907, Duncan’s architect designed his new garage in the Federal style and ground was broken and the building went up. Duncan would own the garage for approximately 13 years before selling it, in 1920, to Maude M. Monell, the wife of Ambrose Monell, a metallurgist who had just returned from WWI where he served in France as a colonel in the aviation service of the Army. He would become president of multiple mining concerns, one of which was one of Andrew Carnegie’s mining companies. The Monells would sell their garage in 1928 to the first in a string of several real estate investment companies to own the property. After 15 or so years in their possession, the garage was sold to Henry S. Morgan, a co-founder of Morgan-Stanley and the son of multi-millionaire, J. P. Morgan. Morgan held the property for about 40 years before conveying it to its current owner.