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The Morgan Library & Museum (originally known as the Pierpont Morgan Library; colloquially the Morgan) is a museum and research library at 225 Madison Avenue in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. Completed in 1906 as the private library of the banker J. P. Morgan, the institution has more than 350,000 objects.
The painting "Old Trinity, New York Winter" was the subject of a segment on the PBS program Antiques Roadshow in 2008. [16] The owner said her father had purchased the painting in the late 1960s for $2500. An appraiser suggested the artwork would fetch between $50,000 and $80,000 at auction.
The New York Public Library's Main Branch measures 390 feet (120 m) on its north–south axis by 270 feet (82 m) on its west–east axis. [45] [63] [145] The library is located on the east side of the block bounded by Fifth Avenue on the east, 40th Street on the south, Sixth Avenue on the west, and 42nd Street on the north. [197]
Main Reading Room of the New York City Public Library on 5th Avenue ca, 1910-1920. Items portrayed in this file depicts. copyright status. public domain. inception.
Fifth Avenue is a major and prominent thoroughfare in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The avenue stretches downtown (southward) from West 143rd Street in Harlem to Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan is one of the most expensive shopping streets in the world. [3] Fifth Avenue carries two-way ...
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Portrait of Mrs. H. (Mrs. George Hitchcock) Oil on canvas ca.1889 Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Bentonville, Arkansas Auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, December 1, 2004, Lot 1. [176] Manufactures Building: The Arts of War The Arts of Peace [177] Murals 1893 University of Michigan—Ann Arbor Anna ...
The museum is ordinarily located at the Henry Clay Frick House at 1 East 70th Street, [44] [373] which is part of Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile. [374] The house spans an entire blockfront on Fifth Avenue between 70th and 71st Streets. [375] The original structure from 1914 was designed by Thomas Hastings [19] in the Beaux-Arts style. [376]
New York Society Library, oldest cultural institution in New York, later serving as the first Library of Congress. 1756 – Population: 13,046. [19] 1762 – Queen's Head Tavern (later named Fraunces Tavern) in business. [22] 1765 – Stamp Act Congress meets in city. 1766 – St. Paul's Chapel built. [7] 1767 – John Street Theatre opens.