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The Andrew Carnegie Mansion is at 2 East 91st Street [5] [6] in the Carnegie Hill section of the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. [7] It stands on 1.2 acres (0.49 ha) of land [8] between Fifth Avenue and Central Park to the west, 90th Street to the south, and 91st Street to the north. [9]
[335] Conversely, in 1999, a New York Daily News reporter described the mansion as "never a home so much as it was a great vaulted hall" for Frick's art. [336] Christopher Gray of The New York Times said the mansion was "straightforward in most respects, but made peculiar by the long blank limestone finger stretching out on 71st Street". [198]
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.
The New York and Pennsylvania state governments fought over which government should collect taxes from Frick's estate. [35] Amid this dispute, the collection was reassessed at $13 million in 1921; [30] this figure was repeated in a revised appraisal of Frick's estate that was filed with the New York state government in 1923. [36]
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 ...
The treatment of Henry Clay Frick, chairman of Carnegie Steel, revealed that it wasn't the company’s ruthless business practices that tarnished Carnegie’s own reputation. Frick relentlessly ...
Little Boss: A life of Andrew Carnegie. Mainstream. ISBN 978-1851588329. Nasaw, David (2006). Andrew Carnegie. New York: The Penguin Press. ISBN 978-1-59420-104-2. Ernsberger, Richard Jr. (October 2018). "A Fool for Peace". American History, Vol. 53, Issue 4. Interview with Nasaw. Wall, Joseph Frazier (1989). Andrew Carnegie. ISBN 0822959046 ...
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