Andrew Carnegie Mansion
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| Location | 2 East 91st Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York[2] |
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| Area | 1.2 acres (0.49 ha) |
| Built | 1899–1902[3] |
| Architect | Babb, Cook & Willard |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 66000536[1] |
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| Added to NRHP | November 13, 1966 |
| Designated NHL | November 13, 1966 [4] |
The Andrew Carnegie Mansion is located at 2 East 91st Street at Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Andrew Carnegie built his mansion in 1903 and lived there until his death in 1919; his wife, Louise, lived there until her death in 1946. The building is now the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution. The surrounding neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper East Side has come to be called Carnegie Hill. The mansion was named a National Historic Landmark in 1966.[4][5][6][7]
History
The land was purchased in 1898[2] in secrecy by Carnegie, further north than most mansions, in part to ensure there was enough space for a garden.[8] He asked his architects Babb, Cook & Willard for the "most modest, plainest, and most roomy house in New York".[4] However, it was also the first American residence to have a steel frame and among the first to have a private Otis Elevator and central heating.[8] His wife, Louise, lived in the house until she died in 1946.[9]
The Carnegie Corporation gave the house and property to the Smithsonian in 1972, and the modern incarnation of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum opened there in 1976. Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates handled the renovation into a museum in 1977.[9] The interior was redesigned by the architectural firm, Polshek and Partners, headed by James Polshek, in 2001.[10]
See also
- List of Gilded Age mansions
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan from 59th to 110th Streets
References
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bill Harris, "One Thousand New York Buildings", 2002, Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, pg 312
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- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Cooper-Hewitt History of Mansion
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. pg 429
- ↑ Andrew S. Dolkart, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum: National Design Museum, 2006, Scala Publishers, ISBN 978-1-85759-268-9
Further reading
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External links
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