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[5] [11] The mansion is part of Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile [12] and houses the Frick Collection, the southernmost museum on that strip. [13] The site had been part of the Lenox family's farm until the late 19th century. [14] The site of the Frick House then became the Lenox Library, designed in a neo-Grec style by Richard Morris Hunt.
When the Frick family moved from Pittsburgh to New York City in 1905, they leased the William H. Vanderbilt House at 640 Fifth Avenue, [15] [12] and Frick expanded his collection during that time. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] The collection was spread across their homes in New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. [ 18 ]
Title from corresponding print in LOT 10872-1. Date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
The Frick Art Research Library’s Photoarchive in New York is a study collection of more than 1.5 million photographic reproductions of works of art from the fourth to the mid-twentieth century. It was founded in 1920 by Helen Clay Frick to facilitate object-oriented research. Alongside the reproductions, the extensive documentation it offers ...
Helen Clay Frick founded the Frick Art Reference Library—renamed in 2024 to the Frick Art Research Library—in 1920 as a memorial to her father, Henry Clay Frick, [1] who had died in 1919. [2] Its first home was the bowling alley of the Henry Clay Frick House; [3] the library's staff worked in the house's basement. [4]
If you're lucky, one of the last remaining Stanford White-designed mansions in Manhattan. 973 Fifth Avenue has just hit the market for $49.9 million—a relative bargain, considering its previous ...
The world's richest man, Mexican telecoms mogul Carlos Slim, is expanding his portfolio of New York City properties with the purchase of the landmark Duke-Semans Mansion on Fifth Avenue for $44 ...
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. On 77th Street, the house featured a long facade rising to a steep ...