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New York - New York City - Fifth Avenue and University Place On Fifth Avenue, north to Twelfth Street, rise tall, modern apartment buildings and hotels, along with a few old renovated mansions. In the summer a number of sidewalk cafés give this quarter-mile the flavor of a South European boulevard. At Christmas time it is ablaze with lighted trees and decorations. ONE FIFTH AVENUE, built in 1927, is the twenty-seven-story apartment hotel by Helmle, Corbett, and Harrison in association with Sugarman and Berger. The structure is interesting for its cut corners and setback, a change from the rectangular massing of the period. An amusing attempt was made to simulate vertical piers by the use of "shadow brick." Below the skyscraper, running east, is WASHINGTON MEWS, a row of converted stables, now the homes of the well-to-do, resembling a secluded lane in the Chelsea district of London with cobblestones, door shrubbery, and green shutters. Half a block north is the HOTEL BREVOORT, at Eighth Street. Built in 1854, it is noted for its distinguished intellectual and cosmopolitan clientele. New York's first marble house, at No. 8, was built in 1856 by John Taylor Johnston, first president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. On the southeast corner of Ninth Street stands the house where Mark Twain lived during the early years of the twentieth century. This three-story brick house betrays the largely ecclesiastic practice of its architect, James Renwick. The CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION (Protestant Episcopal) is on the northwest corner of Tenth Street. Built in 1841 in English Gothic style after the design by Richard Upjohn, it was redecorated about 1888 from the plans of Stanford White, the chancel being the work of well-known artists of the late nineteenth century. John La Farge mural, The Ascension (behind the altar), is considered his finest work. Here, on June 26, 1844, President John Tyler was married to Julia Gardiner. Between West Eleventh and Twelfth Streets is the FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, an example of English Gothic architecture, built in 1845 from plans of Joseph C. Wells. The SALMAGUNDI CLUB, at 47 Fifth Avenue, was founded in 1871 as a sketch class. Its members are artists and sympathetic "amateurs of art." The name recalls the interest in the "Salmagundi Papers" published by Washington Irving. The club occupies the last surviving high-stooped brownstone (built in 1854) of the block. The gallery, just beyond the spacious entrance hall, exhibits work by Salmagundi members, and the library has a valuable collection of costume books. The club's auction exhibition -- the Mug Sale -- is held annually in January; a summer show is usually held from May to October. Paralleling Fifth Avenue to the cast, University Place runs from Washington Square to Fourteenth Street. The HOTEL LAFAYETTE, founded in 1883, at the southeast corner of Ninth Street, is known for its French cuisine, while its café, like that of the Brevoort, is a meeting place of intellectuals, American and foreign. The district to the north is given over largely to auction rooms for the sale of antique and modern furnishings. New York Opportunity and Income New York Career Guidance