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The Henry Clay Frick House (also known as the Frick Collection building or 1 East 70th Street) is a mansion and museum building on Fifth Avenue, between 70th and 71st streets, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Designed by Thomas Hastings as the residence of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick, the house contains ...
The home of the Henry Clay Frick family from 1882–1905, this meticulously preserved 23-room mansion reveals the lifestyle of a prominent, wealthy family who lived in Pittsburgh at the height of the city’s cultural and economic importance.
The home of the Henry Clay Frick family from 1882–1905, this meticulously restored 22-room mansion features an impressive array of fine and decorative art objects purchased by the Fricks. Docent-led tours of the home provide an inside view of daily life at the turn of the 20th century and a better understanding of Pittsburgh during the Gilded Age.
The historic Frick mansion was commissioned by Henry Clay Frick in 1913 from the architecture firm Carrère and Hastings. Frick always envisioned the building would become a public resource dedicated to “encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects,” as he wrote in his will.
Biography of Henry Clay Frick, U.S. industrialist, art collector, and philanthropist who helped build the world’s largest coke and steel operations. Frick played a big role in the development of Carnegie Brothers and Company and U.S. Steel Corporation. His New York mansion houses the Frick Collection of art.
Henry Clay Frick's Indiana limestone mansion — conceived, planned, and erected by Thomas Hastings from 1912 to 1914 — was intimately connected to his ambitions as an art collector. From the very beginning, the house was intended to become a museum following the deaths of the founder and his wife, serving as a "public gallery to which the ...
On June 1, 2024, immerse yourself in the life of Henry Clay Frick and the history of our region with tours at The Frick Pittsburgh and West Overton Village.
