The Richard Morris Hunt Memorial
Standing across the street from the Frick Collection, the 1898 Richard Morris Hunt Memorial pays tribute to the leading New York City architect of its day, whose numerous mansion designs for the Vanderbilt Family and others once lined Fifth Avenue. Inventor of the Chateau Revival style, also known satirically as “Vanderbilt Gothic”, Hunt also was… Continue reading
The Frick Art Reference Library, 10 East 71st Street
Founded by Helen Clay Frick as a memorial to her father Henry, whose collection is housed in the mansion directly adjacent, the Frick Art Reference Library is one of the most important such institutions in the country. Holding over 228,000 monographs and nearly 3,500 periodical titles, the library’s focus is on the history and development… Continue reading
The Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street
One of the city’s outstanding museums and one of the best such collections of its size in the world, the Frick Collection is housed in the former residence of Henry Clay Frick. A melding of French and English Neo-Classical influences, the mansion was designed by the architectural firm of Carrere & Hastings, whose best-known work… Continue reading
2 East 70th Street
An elegant 1928 design by Rosario Candela, here working with the firm of Walker & Gillette, 2 East 70th Street replaced the Blair Mansion by Carrere & Hastings, a vast marble pile only 9 years old at the time of demolition. Candela’s building patterned itself after the previous structure, which had been designed to complement… Continue reading
875 Fifth Avenue
Another very late Art Moderne building, 875 Fifth Avenue was designed by Emory Roth, who was responsible for many of Central Park West’s most dramatic apartment houses. Perhaps leery of gilding the lily for his Fifth Avenue clientele, Roth restrained himself to a few deft touches, including the use of glass block for the water… Continue reading