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The Henry Clay Frick House (also known as the Frick Collection building or 1 East 70th Street) is a mansion and museum building on Fifth Avenue, between 70th and 71st streets, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
Henry Clay Frick (December 19, 1849 – December 2, 1919) was an American industrialist, financier, and art patron.He founded the H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, was chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company and played a major role in the formation of the giant U.S. Steel manufacturing concern.
It was established in 1935 to preserve the art collection of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick. The collection consists of 14th- to 19th-century European paintings, as well as other pieces of European fine and decorative art. It is located at the Henry Clay Frick House, a Beaux-Arts mansion designed for Henry Clay
The Frick Pittsburgh is a cluster of museums and historical buildings located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, and formed around the Frick family's nineteenth-century residence known as "Clayton". It focuses on the interpretation of the life and times of Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919), industrialist and art collector.
Helen Clay Frick (September 2, 1888 – November 9, 1984) [1] was an American philanthropist and art collector. She was born in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , the third child of the coke and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) and his wife, Adelaide Howard Childs (1859–1931).
Allom furnished the Henry Clay Frick House at 71st Street and Fifth Avenue [1] which today houses the Frick Collection, and the neo-Georgian house, Clayton, in Roslyn, Long Island, designed by Ogden Codman Jr., that was bought for Frick's daughter-in-law. [2]
The Frick Building is one of the major distinctive and recognizable features of Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The tower was built by and is named for Henry Clay Frick , an industrialist coke producer who created a portfolio of commercial buildings in Pittsburgh.
Henry Clay Frick, steel magnate [6] Alice Roosevelt Longworth, writer and socialite; Loring family: [9]: 34 Augustus Peabody Loring Jr. (1885–1951), legal writer [10] Charles Greely Loring III (1881–1966), architect based in Boston, son of the Civil War general