Andrew Carnegie Mansion

Andrew Carnegie Mansion

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name =Andrew Carnegie Mansion
nrhp_type = nhl


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location = 2 East 91st Street, Manhattan, New York City, New YorkBill Harris, "One Thousand New York Buildings", 2002, Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, pg 312]
area =
built = 1903
architect = Babb, Cook & Willard
architecture =Georgian
designated = November 13, 1966 cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=386&ResourceType=Building
title=Andrew Carnegie Mansion|date=2007-09-14|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = November 13, 1966cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
visitation_num =
visitation_year =
refnum = 66000536
mpsub =
governing_body =Smithsonian Institution

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.

History

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 [http://www.cooperhewitt.org/ABOUT/mansion.asp Cooper-Hewitt History of Mansion] ] . He asked for the "most modest, plainest, and most roomy house in New York". 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. ["AIA Guide to New York City", 4th Edition, pg 429]

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. The interior was redesigned by the architectural firm, Polshek and Partners, headed by James Polshek in 2001. [ Andrew S. Dolkart, "Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum: National Design Museum", July 26, 2006, Scala Publishers, ISBN 978-1857592689]

It was named a National Historic Landmark in 1966., [http://www.nr.nps.gov/writeups/66000536.nl.pdf Andrew Carnegie Mansion, NHL Writeup] ] cite web|url=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/66000536.pdf "Andrew Carnegie Mansion", May 30, 1975, by Richard Greenwood] |388 KB|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination|date=1975-05-30|publisher=National Park Service] ,cite web|url=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/66000536.pdf Andrew Carnegie Mansion--Accompanying 6 photos, exterior, from 1975.] |2.01 MB|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination|date=1975-05-30|publisher=National Park Service]

References

External links

* [http://www.cooperhewitt.org/ Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum]


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