Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum | interesting place

USA / New Jersey / West New York / East 91st Street, 2
 museum, interesting place
2 East 91st Street
New York, NY 10128
(212) 849-8400
www.cooperhewitt.org/

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. It is now the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution.

The land was purchased in 1898 in secrecy by Carnegie, further North than most mansions, in part to ensure there was enough space for a garden. He asked for the "most modest, plainest, and most roomy house in New York". It was designed by the firm of Babb, Cook & Willard. 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 His wife, Louise, lived in the house until she died in 1946.

The Carnegie Corporation gave the house and property to the Smithsonian in 1972, and the modern incarnation of the Museum opened there in 1976. Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates handled the renovation into a museum in 1977. It was named a National Historic Landmark in 1966. The interior was redesigned by the architectural firm, Polshek and Partners, headed by James Polshek in 2001.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie_Mansion
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper–Hewitt,_Smithsonian_Design_Museum
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Coordinates:   40°47'3"N   73°57'28"W

Comments

  • Made visit to house n march having seen carnegie home in dunfermline Somewhat disappionted with little evidence of Andrew Carnegie period in house The wall paintings and words almost impossible to see Simple things like floor plan and photos of house in its original form Have to say the curator I did speak to appear to have little interest in talking about the historical past The wall chart actually claim Carnegie died in 1920 he died a year earlier
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