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The Morgan Library & Museum (originally known as the Pierpont Morgan Library; colloquially the Morgan) is a museum and research library at 225 Madison Avenue in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. Completed in 1906 as the private library of the banker J. P. Morgan, the institution has more than 350,000 objects.
The New York Public Library's Main Branch measures 390 feet (120 m) on its north–south axis by 270 feet (82 m) on its west–east axis. [45] [63] [145] The library is located on the east side of the block bounded by Fifth Avenue on the east, 40th Street on the south, Sixth Avenue on the west, and 42nd Street on the north. [197]
Fifth Avenue is a major and prominent thoroughfare in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The avenue stretches downtown (southward) from West 143rd Street in Harlem to Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan is one of the most expensive shopping streets in the world. [3] Fifth Avenue carries two-way ...
The Lenox Library was a library incorporated and endowed in 1870. It was both an architectural and intellectual landmark in Gilded Age–era New York City.It was founded by bibliophile and philanthropist James Lenox, and located on Fifth Avenue between 70th and 71st Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
The museum is ordinarily located at the Henry Clay Frick House at 1 East 70th Street, [44] [373] which is part of Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile. [374] The house spans an entire blockfront on Fifth Avenue between 70th and 71st Streets. [375] The original structure from 1914 was designed by Thomas Hastings [19] in the Beaux-Arts style. [376]
The 1879 Lenox Library Guide to the Paintings and Sculptures states that the painting was "Presented by William H. Osborn, November, 1876." [9] A few decades later the painting was donated to the New York Public Library, where it was displayed and periodically loaned out to other museums. [10] It sold at Sotheby's as lot 1 on November 30, 2005.
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Portrait of Mrs. H. (Mrs. George Hitchcock) Oil on canvas ca.1889 Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Bentonville, Arkansas Auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, December 1, 2004, Lot 1. [176] Manufactures Building: The Arts of War The Arts of Peace [177] Murals 1893 University of Michigan—Ann Arbor Anna ...
Fifth Avenue and 77th Street in New York City (winter 1905–1906) The house took up 250 feet on 77th Street and 77 feet on Fifth Avenue, more than any other Gilded Age mansion on Fifth opposite the park, with the exception of the Andrew Carnegie Mansion. [3] The Fifth Avenue frontage was large for a New York house, with three bays of granite.