This address was on the south side of the street. . The address is no longer there. Now it is just a little west of the corner of 53rd and 6th Ave between 6th and Broadway. It is around the corner from Radio City Music Hall. Across 53rd Street on Fifth Ave. is the Hilton Hotel.
The Museum of Modern Art is at 11 West 53rd Street at 5th Ave. Charlotte was born just west one block of the Museum and on the other side of the street.. Perhaps, the building she was born in looked something like this 1936 picture of West 53rd Street. At the time of her birth, 112 was a single family house.
In 1875 William Rockefeller built a mansion at the corner of Fifth Ave and 54th Street. This is the same neighborhood where Charlotte was born five years later and grew up. William Rockefeller still owned the property when he wrote his will in September of 1919.
In 1881, on April 21, the New York Tmes reported that William Rockefeller brought property on the south side of 55th Street, 450 feet west of Fifth Ave. Rockefeller paid $24, 500. for a 25 by 100 foot lot.
Between 1883-1885 the important partners of the Standard Oil Company began moving from Cleveland to New York City. William and John Rockefeller were both designated Trustees and they brought more property in Charlotte's neighborhood.
In 1884, on Charlotte's 4th birthday, The New York Times reported " William H. Vanderbilt has sold the lot of ground No. 619 Fifth-avenue, and a plot on the north side of Fifty-fourth-street, just east of Fifth-avenue, to William Rockefeller for $146, 000, and he has also disposed of a parcel of ground in the rear of the latter of the above pieces for $15, 000 to Benjamin Brewster.