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The complex, located on 5.5 acres (22,000 m 2) [1] of lawn and gardens in the city's Point Breeze neighborhood, includes Clayton, the restored Frick mansion; The Frick Art Museum; The Car and Carriage Museum; the Greenhouse; the Frick children's playhouse; and The Café. The site welcomes over 100,000 visitors a year. Admission is free.
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 park began when the industrialist Henry Clay Frick, upon his death in 1919, bequeathed 151 acres (61 ha) south of Clayton, his Point Breeze mansion (which is now part of the Frick Art & Historical Center). He also arranged for a $2 million trust fund ($35.1 million today) for long-term maintenance for the park, which opened on June 25, 1927.
The site of the Frick House then became the Lenox Library, designed in a neo-Grec style by Richard Morris Hunt. The library had contained paintings and books owned by the philanthropist James Lenox. [15] [16] Frick's house occupies a 200-by-175-foot (61 by 53 m) site that includes both the library and an adjacent strip.
Henry Clay Frick was a coke and steel magnate. [4] [5] As early as 1870, he had hung pictures throughout his house in Broadford, Pennsylvania. [6]Frick acquired the first painting in his permanent collection, Luis Jiménez's In the Louvre, in 1880, [7] after moving to Pittsburgh. [6]
Carriage houses on the National Register of Historic Places (20 P) Pages in category "Carriage houses in the United States" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
The Henry Clay Frick House on 5th Avenue was the inspiration for the Avengers Mansion. Avengers Mansion is a fictional building appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It has traditionally been the base of the Avengers. The enormous, city block-sized building is located at 890 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York City. [1]
Built in 1903 by William Frick, owner of Stillwater's first feed store, the Frick House is one of the best remaining examples of turn of the century Victorian style cottages. [2] It is a single-story cottage. Carpenter gothic trim and octagon cut fish-scale shingles decorate the gables. A curving porch extends the width of the front of the house.