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In January 1949, the Carnegie Corporation agreed to lease both the Carnegie Mansion and the Miller home to the New York School of Social Work for 21 years, with an option to renew the lease. [230] [233] Edgar I. Williams, whose brother was the writer and poet William Carlos Williams, [234] designed a $140,000 renovation of the building.
The wife of a Vanderbilt family member leased the property briefly in 1916 following her husband's death, and the mansion was sold in 1916 by Shotter's debtors to Andrew Carnegie for $300,000. [7] Carnegie had purchased what was regarded at the time to be the second largest private residence in the United States. [8]
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is a design museum at the Andrew Carnegie Mansion in Manhattan, New York City, along the Upper East Side's Museum Mile.It is one of 19 Smithsonian Institution museums and one of three Smithsonian facilities located in New York City, along with the National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center in Bowling Green and the Archives of ...
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The Peter Parker House, also known as the former headquarters of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is a historic row house at 700 Jackson Place NW in Washington D.C. Built in 1860, it is historically significant for its association with the Carnegie Endowment, whose headquarters it was from its founding in 1910 until 1948.
The first Carnegie library, in Dunfermline, Scotland Carnegie Free Library of Braddock in Braddock, Pennsylvania, built in 1888, was the first Carnegie Library in the United States to open (1889) and the first of four to be fully endowed. Carnegie started erecting libraries in places with which he had personal associations. [1]
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The Carnegie Building was an early example of Chicago school architecture in Pittsburgh, [2] and was designed by the architectural firm Longfellow, Alden & Harlow. [3] It rose 13 floors in height, and stood as the first steel-framed skyscraper in Pittsburgh [4] and one of the first steel-cage structured buildings in the world.